Sravan Karuturi

Action Tower Defense Prototype

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This was one of our prototypes for our Capstone we made in Unity. We worked on it for around three weeks before stopping development for this project in favour of a more technical one.

This is a small 3D Action Tower Defense with sandbox mechanics where you can build several towers and place them wherever you want or kill enemies yourself before the enemies eventually get to the base and destroy it.

Major parts I've contributed to include,

1. Pathfinding for the enemies in an ever changing environment, where they have to find the best way to reach the base.
2. Intelligent enemy design to deal with the various contraptions, where they exploit the weakness in the contraptions placed by the player.

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Party Popper

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This was a small iOS Project we ( a team of 2 ) worked on over a span of 3 Weeks.

The game is a 2D endless balloon popping game where you have different types of guns and powers you can make use of to execute combos and multipliers

Major parts I've contributed to include,

Overall Architecture and Metagame programming like pausing the game

Basic bullet physics, and the interaction with Balloons

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An Unnamed DirectX Engine

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My first foray into Engine Development. This was a team project for Game Engine Development course. I took on the role of the UI and Tools Developer and learnt a lot. This project was worked on for about three months.

This is a small Directx Engine with a UI, Hierarchy, Benchmarking and several other key features that we found interesting. This is a quite fragmented engine with each person working on the aspect that they were interested at the moment, but coordinating and communicating with the team.

Major parts I've contributed to include,

1. UI Integration using Dear ImGui
2. Designing and developing UI for the Engine, and the Benchmark utility.
3. Providing an Interface for pretty much everything the team asked for, and needed.

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Quirky Quantums

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This was a small DirectX project we worked on over a span of 2 months.. We worked on it for around three weeks.

The game is a 2.5D platformer where the physics of the entities change depending on the whether you shine your conical light over them.

Major parts I've contributed to are,

1. Integration of Dear Imgui.
2. Integration of Box2D
3. DirectX Bounding Boxes to deal with Collisions and light triggers.

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Vermin/Pilot Engine

A Cross Platform OpenGL Engine, for an RTS Game

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This is a personal project of mine, that I've been working on for the past month

Engine features include,

• Proper GUI for everything, so that changes can be seen realtime.
• Ability to save scenes and load them at a later time.
• An Asset Manager to see the Assets loaded at any given time.
• A searchable logger.
• Ray Picking, and Pathing.
• Multiple Viewports, with the ability to assign cameras as you please.
• Animations for Combat.
• Runs on Mac, Linux and Windows.

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Project Name

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This was our teams Capstone Project. It is an Action RPG Game. My contribution to this project is mostly Combat AI, and Pathing. We spent about 4 months in Development for this project

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Admin Ops

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AdminOps is a rather extensive tool that we use to control and log several aspects of the administrative duties of several departments of Golisano College at RIT.

A few things this web tool does is to handle all the new students, prospective students and existing students. It deals with administrative tasks ranging from emailing a probation letter to logging advisor meetings.

I have been working on this project for the last two years as part of my part-time employment(Graduate Assistantship).
Major parts I've contributed to include,

• Updating the module to take in different kinds of imports when it is importing students from a spreadsheet.
• Fixed bugs in advising notes where the advisors take notes regarding their meetings with students.
• Refactored roles and permissions and how it grants access to several groups of users.
• Fixed a non responsive module for generating letters.
• Added and managed crons to maintain backups that automatically delete after they reach a certain age.
• Fixed several bugs with attachments in the Student Details.

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Lab Ops

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Labops is a tool that we use to control several aspects of the labs of various departments in the Golisano College of RIT.

I have been working on this project for the last two years as part of my part-time employment(Graduate Assistantship).

Major parts I've contributed to include,

• Updating the module to log all the lab computer activity and display the information in a panel.
• Creating a new module where employees can request coverage for their shifts.
• Add new modules to import data into the server.
• Add new modules to store the lab machine details.
• Refactored Roles and Permissions and updated how many roles one can have and how access is given to various people.
• Added and managed crons to maintain backups that automatically delete after they reach a certain age

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My Smart Price, Pvt. Ltd.

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MySmartPrice is a startup based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is a price comparision website and a leader in its field in India.

I worked here for over an year immediately after my undergrad studies. As my first introduction to web technologies, this served as a perfect learning ground as I was amongst some of the best people who were patient and quite helpful all throughout my time there.

Major parts I've contributed to include,

• Refactored several scripts which would generate the cached html pages.
• Refactoring the entire website to conform to the new Design and CSS.
• Creating the module for leaving expert reviews on smartphones.
• Writing and maintaining several crawler scripts from various sites to keep our prices accurate and up to date raising the accuracy rate from ~60% to ~90%

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Flappy Bird

An evolving Neural Network learns to play the game.

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This is a small experiment in Artificial Intelligence. I made a game of Flappy Bird in Unity and made an evolving neural network that learns how to play the game.

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Osmo LGK ABCs

ABCs teaches literacy skills to kids aged 3-5

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In Osmo ABCs, kids build letter shapes and pictures of objects out of silicone sticks and rings.
This was my first project when I started working at Osmo. I joined the team when this game is going through a significant rewrite to increase user interaction and satisfaction. I was the only engineer working on this game at the time.

My major contributions include:

• Adding in several new languages as a part of our expansion in Europe like Dutch, German and French.
• Added support for variations in a language like British and Indian English etc. which comes with significant cultural implications like variations in how one writes the lower case letter 'q' in the U.S., Europe and in India.
• Dynamically adjusting animation times based on the audio clip length for the character, which also can change based on the language.
• Breaking a large binary prefab which holds most of the game ( an architecture developed by our contractor ) to smaller manageable chunks that can be version controlled as well.
• Completely changed the settings screen to reflect the new difficulty modes and languages we added

I came back to advice another engineer for this project after a couple of years when we decided to completely rewrite the game because of the some severe restrictions we had in the architecture that was initially used by the contractors.

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Osmo Words Explorers

Words Explorers helps with building vocabulary and spelling

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In Osmo Words Explorers, you dig into the ground by making words with letter tiles. You dig deeper and get to spell more complex words as you proceed further and further.
This was the first major project I worked on at Osmo that did not involve too much gameplay programming.

My major contributions include:

• Converting the entire game architecture to a new and improved one using Inversion of Control. We made it so, we do not have to update the game everytime there is a change in the osmo systems.
• This is also my first foray into In App Purchases which I would be working on to rewrite and own at Osmo in the future.

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Osmo GK+ Math Buzz

A Co-operative game for the entire family

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In MathBuzz, players/bees have to cooperate together to defeat the wasps and stop them from stealing their honey.
This project was a major milestone for me. Not only was I part of from the conception, with this game, we introduced the new and improved In App Purchasing module that I created.

My major contributions include:

• Building the first prototype and brainstorming through various ideas to arrive at and build the first beta.
• Introduced the new In App Purcahsing module, which was modified and common interface for both Apple and Amazon tablets.
• Introduced new Onboarding module that would help the users better understand how the Login, Account Creation and the In App purchasing modules work.

We released the new modules in three other games along with Mathbuzz, and making sure that they are customizable to fit the theme of the game while staying constant to the Osmo ecosystem was an interesting and educational experience.

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