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I'm Sean Alcordo, and I'm a gameplay programmer working as an intern as Velan Studios, as well as an undergraduate student currently pursuing a Dual Major in Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Overview

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This project was done for the Amplifier Business Camp program, under the studio Rather Be Fishing. The game itself was developed in Unreal Engine 5 over a 6 month period.For this project, I had worked on the gameplay implementation and the connection between front and back-end for the skeleton builder functionality. I had worked on the player character, the shovel interactions, and the various environmental and puzzle elements found throughout the level.

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This project was done during Experimental Game Design at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The game itself was initially developed within the Unity Game Engine in 6 weeks and development is currently still in progress. Our team presented this game at the New York Pavillion at GDC 2024.

Mea Culpa is a horde-style boomer shooter that inverts the tropes of the genre’s badass demon-slaying protagonist by turning them into prey, a doomed coward attempting to survive in a pitch black hell of their own creation. The player’s arsenal is suited to give them snapshots of the battlefield around them, with weapons that produce light in unique ways and a guiding lamp that enables whip-like grapple movement. As players last longer, they’ll learn why they’re trapped here, and if they even have a hope of escaping.

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This project was done during Game Development II at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The game itself was initially developed within the Unity Game Engine over a semester with development currently halted.

In Freestyle Exile, you play as August, an elite skateboarding assassin in the seedy underworld. 15 years ago, your father was disgraced and tarnished his reputation in the assassin community. You're trying to set things right, by competing in the underworld's most popular game show!

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I joined this project at the beginning of the Summer of 2023, initially working just as a programming and shifting to a mentor/management role in the Spring of 2024.

What if there were creatures on earth that were relatively unknown, yet they were responsible for all the freshwater on the planet?
Can ancient forms of plankton from over 10,000 years ago help us understand the future of freshwater ecology?
Sound like a scifi movie? Actually, these are the realities of real world plankton!
The Aquatic Messenger is a VR experience that takes you through various time periods and lets you see the different aquatic species that lived there from miniscule plankton to fish that live today.

Overview

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This project was done during Experimental Game Design at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The game itself was developed within the Unity Game Engine over a semester.

Welcome to the Garden. A place where souls and parts of their old lives reside. As a Reaper, it is your job to help bring these souls to rest and set them free in the place beyond the gate. However, this is no easy task as their minds have become scrambled, and pieces of their memories are missing.

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This project was done during Experimental Game Design at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The game itself was initially developed within the Unity Game Engine in 1 week.

Let 'Em Cook is a VR cooking/horror game that has its players work to satisfy an impossibly large fridge comprised entirely of meat. They work to create a burger by cutting ingredients and cooking them on the grill to appease the Meat Fridge, and the different burgers they can make result in various different endings.

Overview

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This project was done during Experimental Game Design at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The game itself was initially developed within the Unity Game Engine in 1 week.

Sustainable Institute Simulator is a management game that has its players work to keep their institute thriving over a time period of 200 years with various scripted events happening throughout. They balance different resources like money, approval, and debt in an attempt to keep their business afloat.

Overview

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This project was done during Experimental Game Design at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The game itself was initially developed within the Unity Game Engine in 1 week.

Cosmic Diceroll is a party game with up to 4 players where you play as slimes in space who are fighting over territory over their planet. Take the dice that spawn around the map and use them to fight off the enemy slimes!

Overview

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This project was done during Experimental Game Design at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The game itself was initially developed within the Unity Game Engine in 1 week.

Cuddly Catch is a narrative based game where you play as an innocent Teddy Bear playing Hide and Seek with their friends until something goes terribly wrong...

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This project was done during Experimental Game Design at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The game itself was initially developed within the Unity Game Engine in 2 weeks.

Imprism is a short narrative-driven game where you work through processing the aftermath of a breakup.

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This project was done during Game Design I at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The game itself was initially developed within the Unity Game Engine in a span of 5 weeks.

The Pantheon of Music is 3rd person 3D musical platformer for the PC where the player must guide a herd of bulls through obstacles to reach a goal using the power of music to control a dynamically changing environment.The player controls the Greek God Pan, who has challenged the ever-popular fellow deity of music Apollo to a music battle for all the gods and mortal alike to see.As the god of the wild, he commands a hardy herd of bulls to carry his song far throughout the land as he makes his way up Mount Olympus for the final showdown…