Portfolio

Ryan Wasil

Game Designer and Programmer

Hello! My Name is Ryan Wasil and I’m a game designer and programmer currently looking for new employment opportunities. Below you can find my portfolio of game development work!

Everbloom Studios – Creative Director – Nullpoint Protocol

In the middle of 2024 Everbloom made the jump into indie game development. We released our first game Nullpoint Protocol. On this project I worked as the Creative Director to bring the game to life. I interacted with all parts of development but mostly focused on the overall game design, programming, and the music and audio direction.

Listed in the credits as: Creative Director, Game designer, Programmer, and Technical Artist.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead creative vision on the project and guided all aspects of development
    • Soundtrack and Audio Direction
    • VFX design. Particles and shader programming
    • Boss direction and design. Assisted other developers on full boss design.
  • Main game design, audio and VFX programmer
  • Ability, and combat design. Balance work for all aspects of the game
  • Used tools other developers made to perform implementation on all parts of the game
  • And much more…

Everbloom Studios – Minecraft Development

Working with Everbloom games, and Foxel Games developed high-quality Minecraft experiences for the marketplace. Such as Minecraft Dungeons and Dragons, and Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom Adventure!

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Audio-focused development on Minecraft Dungeons and Dragons, as well as researching and designing an adaptive audio system that allows for smooth transitions between tracks dynamically.
  • Completed many short-term projects as a designer and developer such as: (In order of video)
  • Minecraft Dungeons and Dragons – Lead audio implementation and misc development
  • Robot Horde – A Wave-based survival shooter. Lead map designer, gameplay programmer and game designer
  • Mob Karts – A racing party game based on Minecraft mobs and items – Gameplay Programmer and Power Up design
  • Baby Dragon Adventure – A flying collect-a-thon map – Gameplay Programmer and game designer
  • Musical Spells – A story-based adventure map where the player has to play music to cast spells and complete puzzles – Gameplay Programmer and Game/Puzzle design

Ventus Games – Independent Game development

We Are Live

We Are Live was my first independent game project. It is a turn-based rogue-lite with the ability to create your own spells!

Roles and Responsabilities:

  • Organized contractors to meet the project’s vision
  • Game design iteration throughout development
  • Game Design documentation
  • Developed in C# using the Unity engine and URP
  • Steam page management throughout early access

Project Spellshapers

A Card Game match 3 game currently in development. More information: https://ryanventus.itch.io/spellshapers

Roles and Responsabilities:

  • Learning from We Are Live, began developing this game with newfound experience
  • Iterative gameplay design testing and implementation
  • Art direction and UI design
  • Developed using the Unity Engine and C#
  • Created with the intent of trying to make a game in a genre I don’t normally have an interest in
  • My current project!

Game Jam Projects

Crash Fraud

Made for Ludum Dare 49, Theme: Unstable

Tutorial Guild

Made for GMTK game jam 2023, Theme: Roles Reversed

Vault Monkey

Made as apart of learning the Godot game engine in 2024.

Roles and Responsiblities

  • Led the teams to help create games based on a theme in a short amount of time
  • Chose projects that worked well for our team’s skillset and divided the work among the participants, through pre-planning and making decisions on the fly
  • Used the Unity engine and C# to assemble the games into completed projects at the end of the jams

Check out these and my other creations here: https://ryanventus.itch.io/

Skills

Programming Languages

  • C#
  • Java
  • C++
  • GDscript

Game Design

  • General Game design
  • Player progression systems
  • Combat Design
  • Basic UI/UX design
  • Basic Level design

Other Tools

  • Blockbench
  • Aesprite
  • Krita
  • F-Mod
  • Audacity
  • Visual Studio and VScode
  • Github and Github desktop

Software and Tools

Game Development Engines

  • Godot
  • Unity
  • Minecraft – using an internal development environment written in C#

Production

  • ClickUp
  • Trello
  • Google Drive
  • Notion

About me

Thanks for coming to check out my portfolio! I am learning more every day and my experiences thus far have been extremely valuable, especially as the creative director on Nullpoint. From developing my own indie games, and working on some of the world’s biggest IPs within Minecraft. Being able to pick up new tools and learn them quickly is one of my biggest strengths. I’m currently living in Pittsburgh and am always looking for new opportunities. I hope you like what you see, and feel free to contact me with any questions at my email: ventuscaclium@gmail.com!