Hello!

As a computer science major who spends most of my time game programming, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and creative problem-solving skills. With hands-on experience in game design, C++, and Unreal Engine, I am dedicated to delivering immersive, high-quality experiences. My background in collaborative data science projects and real estate enhances my ability to communicate effectively, and approach challenges with a user-focused mindset. Passionate about innovation, I am committed to producing results that exceed expectations

Recent Projects

SurvivalCombatRPG <- Link To GitHub

I'm developing a fully replicated survival combat RPG in Unreal Engine 5 using the Gameplay Ability System.
I have implemented dynamic attack abilities with C++, effect actors and attribute systems to build stat scaled effects.

Spool's Errand

This was a quick game jam project I worked on with a group of programmers and artists. My primary focus was implementing a grappling hook system using the needle in the players hand. The Needle could both be used as a Titan Fall style grapple hook or just to grab objects like the spool above. Additionally, I created a simple AI for some in game sheep that would run from the player unless they were placed in their pen.

Wizard Rush

I made this to copy the combat style form "Furi". A fast paced top down bullet hell.

Horror Game Prototype

I made this in 4 days for Cosmic Horror Jam 3. I only managed to build the Resident Evil Style Tank Controls along with a moody set of levels to Navigate and minor character interactions. You can check out and early build through the text link.

Class Projects

This short video (3:24) is just a series of projects I made while following classes on Unreal Engine since the start of 2024. While I did implement many of my own unique functions and abilities in the majority of these projects in c++ (and Blueprints), I wouldn't consider anything here distinct enough to claim as a personal project. Though I hope these can some light on the variety of learning material I have consumed/engaged with/iterated on

ML Models In Python

Wake Word Classification

Designed and optimized a Wake Word model to accurately identify a specific keyword from a variety of other words and environmental noise, achieving high levels of precision and recall for real-time keyword identification in noisy environments.

While this model worked well on a small dataset I would need to dramatically expand the data fed to the model to make it serviceable for a Wake Word application

Predicting Mental Health With Google

Two other data scientists and I utilized time series data from Google and COVID-19 restrictions as exogenous features to identify a relationship between mental health related Google searches and COVID-19 restrictions in certain states.

In this project we used multiple models including TBATS SARIMA Prophet and Grekite. While there was a notable difference in searches for more restricted states there is more work to be done to isolate the effect of restrictions

Reddit NLP

In this project I leveraged Pushshift's API to collect posts from two politically opposed subreddits. Then I trained a binary classification model using NLP to identify which subreddit a post belongs to.

With Count Vectorized and Lemmatized data from over 10,000 posts I was able to achieve an accuracy of %75 with a Naive Bayes Classifier

Programming Languages Apps and Libraries

Unreal Engine 5+
C++
Python
SQL
Google Collab
AWS
Excel & Sheets
Power Point
Tableau
Git
Hugging Face
Streamlit/Flask

Pandas
Numpy
Scikit-learn
Tensorflow
Keras
Librosa
Prophet
PyAudio
Matplotlib
Seaborn

Get in Touch

rickyoeverest@gmail.com

(213) 733-4804