Carlos Bonachea
Multimedia Developer
I am a software developer with a strong background in interactive narratives and rapid prototyping and I take pride in finding simple solutions to complex problems.
When I am not working on software or automation I enjoy running Dungeons & Dragons games and hosting dinner parties.
This game was born as a spiritual successor to Lunar Lander (Atari 1979). The player pilots a rocket ship on the Mars colony making food deliveries to earn money. I worked as the lead developer on this project and wrote all the code and architected the system mechanics.
Here is a look under the hood:
An interface is used to control engine status, this provides a simpler logic flow and protects against unwanted edge-cases
Logic is implemented to toggle engine status through loosely coupled checks that remove dependencies wherever possible resulting in code that is simple to follow and thus easy to debug
All movement and collisions are governed by a physics system which simulates rigid-bodies. This gives the player a satisfyingly tactile feel to the movement.
Procedural Generation of Topology for Ground Meshes
I created this tool to procedurally generate mountainous terrain for 3D environments. It uses Perlin noise to alter the height of the vertices along the mesh. It is scalable to virtually any size terrain and due to its light weight implementation and can be created at run time.
Rapid Prototyping & User Testing
Dungeon Survivors
This is a rapid prototype for a top down 2D action based game inspired by Luca Galante’s ‘Vampire Survivors’(2022). This prototype was used to test object spawning methods and hit detection.
Parking Simulator
This 3D parking game was created over the course of a weekend for the Ludum Dare 48 game jam. This game features a trigonometry based point system that rewards you for parking in alignment with the parking spot.
Procedural Generation Experiment
This project took the core physics systems from Project Cargo and added procedural map generation. This was as an experiment to create stable procedural terrain that adheres to predetermined limits.
Xytherian
This is a sandbox testbed for an upcoming 2D action exploration game titled ‘Xytherian’. It features modular game agnostic code and allows for rapid iteration of game mechanics to aid in design.
Project Primary
This is a prototype for a top down 2D shooting game where the player shoots sugar at yeast cells in unfermented beer based on Atari’s ‘Asteroids’ (1979). The main goal was to make the player feel the weight of the yeast cells and lend to chain reactions through physics.