Interactive Portfolio
Welcome to the Site!
What is it?
The interactive portfolio was designed to be placed in the front page of the website to demonstrate my Unity skills and provide a new experience to users who are looking at portfolios. The level provides information about myself while showing off my skills creating a lightweight application that can be played in the browser. Less InformationWhat is done?
The level currently has 5 rooms that separates into the introduction, about me, employment, portfolio and current projects. There is also interactivity in the form of walking around the level as if you're in a museum as well as interacting with buttons that will open links and reveal more information.What did I learn?
The majority of this level was myself learning level design, 3D modelling and lighting design. The map was made in Blender along with some 3D Models that are in the level. The lighting was done in the Unity Editor and took the longest amount of time to trial and error the baked lighting. Programming was done for movement and interactivity with the buttons. 3D modelling was the attribute I learned the most about and improved the most on.Unity
C#
November 2022 - June 2023
Github
Isometric Bow and Arrow Game Mechanic
Trying a New Idea
What is it?
This was an idea that came to me one day after I was thinking about game mechanics that could be useful to see in a game. The isometric bow and arrow game is something I was thinking about that could be a part of my passion project which will use a MMORPG type camera and I wanted to try to include a bow shooting mechanic within a camera that wasn’t a first or third person perspective.This game mechanic uses a fixed isometric camera for the character where you can aim your mouse to rotate the character towards the cursor and you are able to fire an arrow with adjustable trajectory and power. There is no UI with this mechanic because I just wanted to create a basic game mechanic and see if it could be legitimately played at first. The answer to this question? It can be played if it remains an arcade game where there is no ui telling you where the arrow will land or what power you have, It reminds me of a saying. “Easy to play, Hard to Master” If it were to turn into a more realistic mechanic then I think I would have to include some UI to indicate to the player what the trajectory is and what the power the arrow being shot is as well as some air resistance and drawback speed.
What is Done?
-The game mechanic includes a smooth following camera that always has the character central to the screen.
-The character can smoothly rotate towards the cursor with no delay (Can be adjusted)
-The character can be very precise with their shots due to incremental/decremental degree changes and power adjustments.
-The Arrow can be stuck into objects with precision.
-The arrow will physically arch towards it’s end location just like an arrow.
What did I learn?
For a game mechanic that was so simple, I really did have to include many different mechanics into the main one just for it to work smoothly. I’m glad that I stuck with just a simple mechanic because I could have been at risk of feature creep that would have taken this project much longer than it should have.Github
Unreal Engine
C++ and Blueprints
November 2023 - On Hold
Project Bloodlines
A Passion Project
What is it?
The plan is to create Action CRPG hybrid with the RPG elements of Baldur's Gate, Tyranny and Knights of the Old Republic and combine it with combat elements of Mount and Blade, Exanima and Maudhau.
What has been done so far
I have given myself a certain amount of systems and mechanics I needed to create before I move onto core mechanics. I have now reached milestone 1 and this is what was made to get to there:
-Camera System
-Context Menu for interactions and information
-Dynamic movement state system -Stamina and Fatigue system
-RPG Menu windows for easy information sorting
What have I learned so far and what will I learn?
Project Bloodlines marks my first significant project in Unreal Engine, excluding prior mini-tutorial projects used for learning purposes.
-I have become increasingly familiar with Blueprints which has been the primary focus of learning within the Unreal Engine.
-Planning to integrate C++ with Blueprints for more efficient development in the future.
-Gained substantial knowledge about UI design, a topic not previously explored by myself in any other game engine.
-Currently focusing on learning the physics system within Unreal Engine, preparing for its implementation in the combat system.
Github
Unreal Engine
C++ and Blueprints
November 2023 - On Hold
God's Oversight
A Rimworld Mod
What is it?
God's Oversight is my final project for my BSc Computing and Video Game Development course. The idea of the COMP 3000 course is to develop on knowledge you have acquired in previous years. My idea was to show that I could develop a system on a foreign codebase and the result was making a system that involved colonists getting powers depending on what personal traits they had through a %chance tier system.
What did I learn?
-Modding for Rimworld doesn't involve using the Unity editor.
-Testing mods requires saving the source file and then testing in the game each time.
-Source files can only be viewed by decompiling the code into separate XML files.
-Finding specific elements in the source code necessitates searching through individual items.
-Limited game documentation available, requiring extensive learning of the game's source code.
-Initially planned to continue the project after university.
-A new expansion pack significantly expanded upon the project.
-Unclear if the mod project had any influence on the developers of the expansion pack.
Downloads and Awards
The mod reached the frontpage for top steam subscribers for the week and reached a peak subscriber count of 190 people. It currently has a 3/5 star rating with 25 ratings in the steam workshop and quite a bit of positive engagement in the comments.
September 2021 - May 2022
Unity
C#
Github
Steam Workshop
Casey Kusella-Gussin
© 2025 by Casey Kusella-Gussin
Pathfinder
An AI Gamejam Mini-Game
What is it?
Pathfinder is a mini-game that was created in the Sports Interactive in-house game jam. The gamejam was made for colleagues from all roles to get involved and get acquainted with the Unity game engine which is what Football Manger 2025 will be made in.
Pathfinder is a mini-game that would be created for a selection of mini-games as it was part of a warioware type game. Pathfinder is a mini-game about controlling a ball and getting past obstacles as they try to touch you which would end up being a game over.
To win this mini-game, you would have to get the ball into the goal.
What was done?
Basic movement implemented using forces instead of translation.
Obstacles employed a random patrol mode with restrictions imposed by level barriers.
The obstacles also utilized a chase system that triggered upon the player's detection within the cone-shaped raycast.
The obstacles were programmed to halt the player for 5 seconds, allowing for regrouping and preventing clumping.
What did I learn?
The gamejam was a great experience! I got to learn a bit more about what it's like to work in a team as well as design a game with a team.
I was able to collaborate with the team with Perforce which was my first experience with it as well as live checking in and out of assets to avoid file conflicts. The mini-game was also a massive learning experience as I got to learn a lot more about how AI in games was done.
I was able to learn about the navmesh which is how AI navigate through a level, layer masking which would distinguish between level, friend and foe as well as develop a bit more knowledge about raycasting as it's a useful but memory intensive tool.
Unity
C#
December 2022 (3 Day Game Jam)