Hi, I'm Jack Jadoenath, a Game Designer.
I focus on player mechanics & combat systems due to my love for action games.
I've made shooters, action games and platformers. I love exploring & experimenting with multiple genres.
Currently, I'm looking for a Junior Game Design position! In the meanwhile I'm working on my own action combat-heavy game "Unjust" that will be be revealed soon!
Pango is a 3D Skilled-based platformer where the player controls an AI android pangolin that can curl up into a ball and collect treasures in this ancient temple left behind by an old sci-fi civilization.
Nominated for the Game Tastings 2023 "A Taste of Success".
Worked On //
Implemented Character movement & States (Jumping, Rolling & Walking)
Worked on Camera Systems (Visual Scripting/Unreal Blueprints)
Implemented animations into the Animation Blueprint
My Roles // Technical Game Designer
Duration // April 2023 - June 2023
Genre // 3D Platformer
Tools // Unreal Engine 5.1, Perforce, Jira
Platform // PC (Itch.io)
This is a Component System that builds ontop of the Third-Person Template by providing a Data Asset driven approach to creating Attacks, Combos & Weapons. This is designed to make it real easy to start building a hack 'n' slash combat system without needing to building the fundamentals from scratch like combos, attack chains, auto-rotation, input buffers, weapon system, VFX & SFX.
Worked On //
Data Asset driven system that allows Weapons to store combos, each combo containing an array of attacks.
Framerate independent Line & Sphere tracing
Input Buffer system that calls the next attack if the player inputted an attack early.
Feedback system using Hitstop, Camera Shake, SFX and Impact VFX
Exentensive Wiki Documentation acting as a guide for users.
11 Attack animations created for 3 weapons
Animation Notify (States) used exentensively to activate critical functions like combat state, hitbox activation, Call buffered attacks & VFX activation in animation montages.
This pack is a marmalade of systems to help you create enemies, waves and control their agression using tokens.
Features:
Enemy Data Asset - Customise your enemies using data assets, one actor only needed while it uses data assets to change the Mesh, Behaviour, Animation and more! Three enemy types are included with pre-programmed AI using Behaviour Trees & EQS.
Wave Manager - An overlap box that contains data on amount of waves, and which enemy data spawns in each wave. Can be used multiple times throughout a level!
Token System - Control enemy agression and make them take turns or overwhelm the player, make additional tokens to tax other actions in the behaviour tree like movement, special attacks or jumping. it's all in your hands.
Worked On //
Data Asset driven system that allows one Enemy actor to change into different enemy types depending on the data asset chosen.
Wave Manager that can spawn in and remember enemies being active and gets notified on kills, spawning more enemies if a wave gets cleared.
Token System using behaviour trees to control enemy agression and actions, the more tokens the more actions all of the AI takes. Along with a cooldown per token type which you can adjust or add to using GameplayTags.ini.
Exentensive Wiki Documentation acting as a guide for users.
6 Attack animations created for 2 weapons
Shred Off is a 3rd-person action, snowboard shooter, where you perform Stylish tricks in the Alaskan mountains while gunning down enemies with an arsenal of ranged weaponry.
I worked on the combat for this game, along with implementing visual feedback systems through camera shakes & UI Effects and creating the ranking system based on the score the player receives in a level.
Made in Unreal Engine 5 with a team of 12.
Released on Steam in June 2024 (Early Access April 2024)
Worked On //
Weapon & Enemy Designs and balancing them to be fun and to make the player feel STYLISH & POWERFUL
Constant collaboration with Programming & Design to build towards a cool action game
Feedback Systems when the player gets shot and damaged through UI effects and camera effects
Take on leading responsibilities by reporting to stakeholders, bringing focus and alignment within a team with a vision for the design.
My Roles // Combat Designer
Duration // September 2023 - June 2024
Genre // Action, Third-person Shooter
Tools // Unreal Engine 5.3, Jira
Platform // PC (Steam)
Max Beatdown is a 3D beat-em-up game made in Unreal Engine 5 that I worked on Solo.
I work on this project in my self-study & free time.
Worked On //
Implemented Combo System that allows me to swap in out different attacks for the player
Enemies using a token system & behaviour trees (Visual Scripting/Unreal Blueprints)
Created Attack Animations & VFX and implemented them in-game
My Roles // Solo Developer
Duration // June 2023 - Now
Genre // Action, Beat 'em Up
Tools // Unreal Engine 5.3, Trello
Platform // PC (Itch.io)
This solo project aims to recreate the character, camera and controls of Devil May Cry (2001) in Unreal Engine 5.1.
Made within 8 weeks.
Worked On //
Implemented Combo Melee System using Unreal Blueprints
Programmed Fixed and Free Camera system
Creating Animations & Animation Blueprint implementation
Implemented Lock-on system
My Roles // Technical Game Designer (Solo Project)
Duration // November 2022 - January 2023
Genre // 3D Action Hack n Slash
Tools // Unreal Engine 5.1, Perforce
Platform// PC (No release)
Thor's Demise is a top-down shooter made in Godot where you play as Thor trapped in Hell fighting for your survival.
I learned the basics of Godot in 8 weeks by designing and programming a game mode, enemy and weapon.
A top-down shooter where you as "Fun-guy", need to liven up the disco floor by making everyone dance! You can have dance-offs with disco goers and possess them to make them dance with other disco-goers.
Design, Art, Code
Your sword calls to you, and you feel its power GROWING. Slay hordes of enemies and which more kills, your sword grows.
Submitted for GMTK Game Jam 2024
Design, Code
This is an old-school first-person shooter where you play as a shadow wizard who casts spells by abusing potion substances and "pixie dust".
Submitted for Global Game Jam 2024
Design, Code
This is a first-person horror game. Explore the dark and eerie depths of the Paris Catacombs in this thrilling puzzle maze horror game.
Submitted for CMGT Jam - Block B 22/23
