Howl, a second-year university game project, was an ambitious project which I, alongside a team of eight others, embarked upon.

We had two semesters (roughly eight months) of development to complete an immersive and emotional experience from the ground up. The idea for the game was born out of a chance encounter - as I stepped out of a restaurant, I was greeted with the sights and sounds of traditional Chinese dance. It quickly drew me in and I thought deeply about how it was such an accessible form of storytelling. I was inspired to create something similar, and challenged my team to do this with a game: using music and visuals to tell a story of a universal fact - a mother’s love.

I took on the roles of Co-Producer, assisting my producer in planning, management and overseeing the project’s development, Custom Editor Programmer, where I built a Win32 game and level editor from scratch, Graphics Programmer, where I integrated OpenGL into the game engine and handled all 2D rendering, and Composer, where I composed twelve unique, dynamic, and original scores to help deliver the full emotional experience we were aiming for.