Walter Keiler

Technical Game Designer Portfolio

Personal Projects

Contain The Singularity

Added trails to illustrate flocking and obstacle avoidance.
They now avoid the player and can be contained in the center box.
A fun project to learn about scriptable objects and swarm algorithms.

Summer 2020

I created this little game for an English class focused on AI in literature. The point of this game is to contain the singularity and demonstrate its impossibility of it. For this game, I learned how to create a flocking algorithm so that the “AI” appeared intelligent and would actively avoid the player.

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Academic Projects

WW1 Trench Diorama

Beauty shot in UE4
Beauty shot in UE4
Top down of full diorama.
No lighting pass.
Metallic pass.
Normals.

Spring 2020

For this project I was tasked with modeling, sculpting, texturing, and designing a WW1-themed diorama. I started with a basic low poly of all of my assets in Maya. Then I took them into ZBrush to sculpt and get a high poly version to use for a normal map. Next, I exported a low poly for ZBrush into Substance painter for texturing. Finally, I arranged the scene in Unreal Engine using some volumetric fog to add to the atmosphere.