Ian Melvin

Game Programmer

I am currently working on a flood simulator with University of Vermont, and I'm a recent graduate from Champlain College with a B.S. in Game Programming with a minor in Mathematics. Learn More!


Interests: Comic Books, Hiking, Dungeons and Dragons, Swimming, Cooking, Music


Projects

Dead Pedal August 2022 - May 2023

Dead Pedal is a 3rd person, action, open world driving game set in a fictional version of the Mojave desert.

Team size: 23

Unreal 5 UMG UI C++ Git Steam itch.io

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Mini Infinity January 2022 - May 2022

Mini Infinity is a 3rd person wave based shooter about a star-mage in training.

Team size: 9

Unity C# Git itch.io

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Blog Posts

My Attempt At Making A Pac-Man Clone Pt.1: A* Pathfinding

03 May 2023

In the fall semester of 2022, I recreated the classic arcade game, Pac-Man, in Unity 2D. This project had 2 main caveats, I needed to create the AI using A* pathfinding and the maze needed to have parts of it...

Game Programming A* AI