Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance

Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is a co-op action RPG set in the Forgotten Realms’ Icewind Dale, developed by Tuque Games (now Invoke Studios) and published by Wizards of the Coast in 2021 on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox. I worked on it as a Gameplay Programmer at the studio.

• Built the AI, progression, and encounter logic for major boss fights, including Hagedorn, Icewind, and the Lich, working with the designers
• Developed the core AI aggro behaviour using GOAP (goal-oriented action planning)
• Built the skill tree by integrating a progression system and its UI
• Created and maintained an extensible gameplay debugger that connected to live gameplay systems
• Fixed major game-breaking bugs, including enemies that stopped responding or rubberbanded