Tower Dominion

A tower-defence strategy game released on Steam, iOS and Android by Nvizzio Creations. I was gameplay and systems programmer. The work breaks into four parts.

The ability system, which is the one worth reading

• The studio’s custom ability system was collapsing under cascading effects. Machine guns and explosions produced effect storms, and resolving those effects sat on the main thread.
• I moved effect processing onto Unity’s Job System — multithreaded and data-oriented.
• The shipped game runs that path, and still runs it after I left.

The other three

• The tutorial system is mine, end to end.
• The port to iOS and Android is mine, including in-app purchases on both stores.
• Late-game content: new mechanics, balance passes, and rewrites of systems the earlier content had outgrown.

Numbers that are checkable

• 83% positive on Steam.
• Three platforms — PC, iOS, Android — from one codebase.