Matthew Myers

This recreation of the NES The Legend of Zelda's first dungeon was developed over three weeks in my senior design course (EECS 494) at UofM. In this project, my partner and I replicated several mechanics authentically, including player movement and attacks, enemy movement, health and damage components, camera transitions, and more. We also developed a custom mechanic and designed a mini-dungeon revolving around this mechanic, part of which is shown to the right.

This game was built with Unity, with scripts developed in C#. While game sprites and audio were provided for us, the implementation of each mechanic was done from scratch. This project allowed me to gain meaningful experience with Unity and Unity Collab, challenged my creativity in designing levels, and improved my discipline and focus with a short deadline.

Pokébuild is a web app that gives competitive pokémon players a new way to build teams, providing tools such as team recommendations and 1v1 speed comparison. Pokémon Showdown's teambuilder is solid, but it can be difficult to know where to start for new players and players who are coming back to the game after not playing for a while. Pokébuild makes getting started easy, providing users with usage stats to give them a picture of the current metagame. The speed comparison tool is something that experienced players will find very useful while building for specific scenarios. Pokébuild also provides compatibility with Pokémon Showdown, allowing users to easily transfer teams built with Pokébuild over to the most popular battle simulator. Overall, this new teambuilder provides a few features that Pokémon Showdown's teambuilder doesn't have, with the aim of improving the teambuilding process.