Student Portfolio
Gabriel Tan
My name is Gabriel Tan. I have been heavily interested in game design since childhood, writing my ideas in various books. I am also studying for my Diploma in Infocomm and Media Engineering, and as such I wanted to have more practice and experience in programming. ThinkCode has allowed me to fulfil these desires. Personally, I enjoy strategy games the most.
My experience at ThinkCode has allowed me to learn more about game design concept, as well as practice my programming skills. I have learnt of the many intricacies that are behind the core fundamentals of good game design.
Game Project 1
Office Brawl
Project Write-Up by Gabriel
I wanted to make an auto battler as I was interested in how auto battlers and grid-based systems operate, as well as my general high level of interest in strategy games. I wanted a more interesting theme than the usual Fantasy settings that I think about, so I had some themes randomly generated, which is how I ended up on this “Office” theme. Interpreting my own theme was part of the challenge, but the bulk of the challenge was definitely the pathfinding of the characters, how the characters would prioritize their targets.
Board Game Project
Mech Fighters
A strategy board game based on mech combat, created for our board game module.
Used as a learning point for spatial mechanics, combat systems, and PvP balance.