Projects, Bistian

Game Team of 3

Nightfall

A 3D action game built with a team of three in Unreal Engine 4, where you take on contracts, craft consumables and traps, and fight through atmospheric arenas. It's the project I'm proudest of, and home to the system I had the most fun engineering.

My role: Gameplay Programmer · C++ · one of three developers

Designed and built a real-time predicted trajectory systemit simulates a throwable's flight under gravity and collision, then renders the arc live as you aim
Programmed character controllers, abilities, and animations for two playable characters
Built all throwable items and traps, including the predicted-trajectory throw
Contributed to the crafting, contract, and progression systems

Unreal Engine 4 C++ Gameplay Systems AI

◆ The Predicted Trajectory System, my proudest piece

Live arc rendered as you aim

Projectile follows the predicted path

Arc updates in real time

◆ Combat, Effects & World

Fire tornado

Throwable poison bomb

Fire wall

◆ Systems & UI

Contract selection

Recipes

Skill tree

Graphics Solo

DirectX 11 Demos

A collection of real-time 3D scenes rendered in a DirectX 11 graphics project I wrote myself. You toggle between scenes at the press of a button. The point isn't the polish of any one scene; it's that the rendering underneath is all hand-written. This is where I got to understand computer graphics at a deeper level.

My role: Everything, C++ & HLSL, solo

Wrote the HLSL shaders from scratch, no engine doing the work
Implemented multiple lighting models (the Stonehenge scene shows several lighting types at once)
Handled texturing, materials, and a skybox across every scene
Built animated effects, including the moving water on the island scene

C++ DirectX 11 HLSL Real-Time Rendering

View the Code on GitHub

◆ The Scenes

Stonehenge, multiple lighting types (most technical)

Palm island, animated water shader

Balloons, floating geometry and lighting

Solar system, textured planets and emissive sun

◆ See It in Motion

Solar system, orbiting bodies

Stonehenge, lighting in motion

Island, animated water

◆ Building the Fundamentals

Before the full engine, a series of graphics labs building up the core techniques, rasterizing lines, rotation and interpolation, and the first steps into 3D.

Line-drawing algorithms (DDA, Bresenham)

Rotation & interpolation

First trip into 3D

Written during my graphics coursework, a demonstration of low-level rendering understanding, shaders, lighting, and texturing built by hand, rather than a shipping engine. The lab work that led up to it is on GitHub too: Lab II, Lab III, and Lab IV.

Game Team

Office Warfare

A 2D platformer-shooter built with a team in Unity, where I took on the systems and physics work, including a custom water shader and the full inventory and pickup flow.

My role: Programmer · C# · part of a team

Built water shader physics for the game's water sections
Implemented moving platforms and level mechanics
Created the UI, inventory, and pickup systems

Unity C# Shaders Game Systems

View Code on GitHub

◆ Watch the Trailer

Software Solo

SkyLions

A mobile-first basketball tournament and game management app I'm building solo, "Blacktop Hoops HQ." It runs full tournaments or single games, with live scorekeeping and stats that roll up across every game a player has ever played, all wrapped in a 90's-arcade look.

My role: Everything, solo build · in progress

Designed a play-by-play event-log data modelevery stat is one event, and all scores and box scores are computed from that single source of truth
Full undo on every action; stats can be entered live or later from tape
Global player directory so a player's stats follow them across tournaments
Multi-step tournament builder, game rules, seeding, and prize splits

Blazor .NET EF Core SQLite

◆ Players & Teams

Global player directory, stats follow each player

Teams across every tournament

◆ The Tournament Builder, a 3-step flow

Step 1, basics & format

Step 2, game rulebook

Step 3, seeding & prize splits

In active development. Everything shown is test data.

Software Lead of 2

Fire-Tec Platform

A live equipment-management platform I led the development of, the system that runs a real fire-equipment business's day-to-day operations. Rentals, inventory, inspections, repairs, analytics, and training management, all in one place. Proof that alongside games, I build and ship serious production software.

My role: Lead Developer · led a two-person team

Led development of a production platform tracking 1,500+ pieces of equipment through repair, inventory, rentals, and training
Built an interactive inspection systema clickable turnout-gear diagram that flags repairs by garment layer and auto-estimates cost
Designed a full analytics dashboard: rental trends, inventory health, and a live service pipeline
Rebuilt the company's original desktop app into a modern web platform and migrated ~6,600 records
Deployed and maintain the full cloud environment, and manage a second developer

ASP.NET Core Blazor SQL Server EF Core AWS

◆ Then & Now, a full rebuild

The same business, the same core job, rebuilt from the ground up. On the left, the original Windows desktop application I first built the company on. On the right, the modern web platform I rebuilt it into, with all ~6,600 records migrated across.