Luke Roberge
Education
Rochester Institute of Technology
Fall 2018 - Spring 2023
Rochester, New York
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Bachelor of Science, Game Design and Development
Dean's List: Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
RIT Presidential Scholarship Recipient
Bachelor of Science, Game Design and Development
Dean's List: Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021
RIT Presidential Scholarship Recipient
Portfolio Academic and Personal Projects
Requiem of Stardust
July 2023
Independent project, team of 2 — Godot 4.1
- Brainstormed game mechanics with a creative writer to develop a short narrative game about a dying MMO.
- Worked with the writer to mock up and develop functional versions of mechanics from MMO games to support the story.
- Effectively leveraged external libraries, including Dialogue Manager for written dialogue and State Charts for fictional players' AI.
Novakid Artifact Quest
August 2021 - December 2021
Academic project, team of 5 — Lua, game mod
- Designed and coded a unique, powerful gun to act as a reward for players in the game Starbound.
- Regularly updated the team, using their feedback to iterate on the weapon's visual effects and "feel" until everyone was satisfied.
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Our mod was popular enough to be featured on the game's Steam
Workshop immediately after its release.
As of December 2023, was used by over 14,000 players and rated 96% positive.
Echo Voice
April 2021 - August 2021
Independent project, solo - Electron, HTML/CSS, JavaScript (ES6)
- A voice changer application designed for roleplaying Warforged characters in Dungeons & Dragons.
- Originally a rough prototype for personal use; cleaned up and published after other players expressed interest.
- Extensively researched and used the Web Audio API in order to achieve a robot-like voice effect.
Field of Eggs
March 2021 - May 2021
Academic project, solo - HTML/CSS, JavaScript (ES6)
- An incremental/clicker game based on cellular automata, themed after Blaseball (an ongoing web game at the time).
- Designed and developed solo as a standalone browser game for an advanced web development class.
- Learned new ES6 concepts, including modules and classes, to help create more advanced game features.
Tumblr Tag Search
October 2019
Academic project, solo - HTML/CSS, JavaScript, AJAX
- A single-page app that displays recent posts from a specific Tumblr tag in an "infinitely scrolling" style.
- Designed and built as a single-page tool for an introductory web development class.
- Learned and applied the basics of accessing RESTful APIs for the purposes of the project.
RPS: Odyssey
January 2019 - May 2019
Academic project, team of 4 - C#, MonoGame
- A comedically difficult platforming game with turn-based RPG combat themed around rock-paper-scissors.
- Developed in cooperation with 3 other students as a semester-long, academic project.
- Created the game's physics and input engines, and maintained them throughout its development.