Aaron Nelder

Game Developer

Game Developer with a robust background working with C++, C# and Unity3D. Spearheaded the development and integration of gameplay mechanics, optimized gameplay performance, demonstrating strong collaborative skills and a knack for performance optimization on the title “Shootout” for the Meta Quest 2/3.

Interested in working together? Contact me at neldermakesgames@hotmail.com

Past Work

Voxel Engine - 2024

A built from the ground up voxel solution for unity. Generates terrains using the Unity Jobs system and C# Tasks to ensure smooth performance. Every world is different and is generated using random noise. Provides custom inspectors and windows using Unitys new UI toolkit. Here are some of the main highlights and technologies.

  • Unity Jobs & C# Tasks implimentation.

  • Uses low level rendering solution to ensure performance.

  • Custom mesh editor and and data viewer to pass as little data to the vertex buffers as possible.

  • Noise preview inspector to allow easy modification of noise maps.

  • Supports dynamic render distance and voxel sizes.

  • Contains multiple burst compiled functions to ensure best performance possible.

  • Impliments mesh combined chunks and dynamic voxel face visibility to ensure only visible voxel faces are rendered and combined.

Shootout - 2022/2024

A multiplayer VR shooter that allows you to customize your loadout with over 300 unique combinations. Previously worked as a intermediate software engineer at MYR (the developers of Shootout) on many of the systems inside of shootout and shipped the game to over 700,000 devices. Most of my focus was spent on the gameplay systems such as character locomotion, accessibility features, weapon integration and more. I also worked along side artists to integrate character cosmetics and the weekly storefront.

Tardigraid - 2022

Tardigraid is a first person wave defense game which takes place in the small town of Landwell. You play as the mad scientist who just accidentally unleashed an army of mutated tardigrades. You’re tasked with shutting down the machine which mutated them in order to save the town and most importantly, yourself.

I was the main gameplay programmer on the team and was in charge of the weapon system, player controller, pickups, audio system as well as many other scripts. I was also tasked with quality assurance to make sure systems are optimized and bugs are dealt with accordingly.

All Weapon art and visual design of the weapons weredone by Matt Mackie. Environment art was done by, Matt Mackie, Adam Kon and Isaihia Neufeld. Level Design provided by Jake Hardy

Earthle - 2022

Developed using the Unity Game Engine and inspired by worldle, in this game you try to guess the country that given outline represents in the least number of guess and the shortest amount of time. Most country around the world are represented and if you’re unable to guess the contry after 5 turns the countries flag will be shown to assist you.

Rotator - 2021

Rotate a shape along and try to avoid incoming obstacles. The longer you survive, the harder it gets. It was solo developed by me over the course of a month to help me get a understanding of what it’s like publishing a game to the google play store. MY main focus for the game was creating a proper save system using Json and incorporate unlocks based off the saved data.