Jonah Ryan
Jonah Ryan
Gameplay & Tools Programmer
Hi! I’m Jonah Ryan. In the Spring of 2025, I will graduate from UC: Santa Cruz with a Computer Science: Game Design major.
Below are my favorite game projects I have worked on and a summary of my contributions!
Highlighted Work
Click on project image or button for a deeper breakdown of each project.
SLEDGE AI (Unity, C#)
3D Action platformer developed in year long senior capstone project.
Highlights:
- Behavior Tree Node Graph
- 3D AI Pathing
- UI Framework
- Won best design of the capstone series.
Procedural Meshes (Unreal, C++)
Built from the ground up a mesh destruction system.
Highlights:
- Custom 3D math and geometry library
- In-Editor tests + frame-by-frame debugger
- Decoupled class design
- 68 commits over 6 months
President and Production Lead @ GDA
Lead internal logistics of a 20+ person production team, run meetings and teach.
Highlights:
- Host weekly 30-50 person standups.
- Monitored 8 2-week sprints with 191 GitHub Issues in total.
- Unity and C# training for 60+ students.
Personal Work
Extra work I have done in my free time.
3D Platformer Character (Unity, C#)
Designed character and camera system mimicking popular platformer game.
Highlights:
- Hierachical state machine with 12 states of movement.
- Player acceleration linked to terrain.
- Extensive frame analysis of refrence material to create best experience.
WebGL Lighting
Created a 3D lighting system with 3 types of lights.
Highlights:
- 3D Mesh Rendering + Normal Maps
- Phong Shader + spot and point lights.
- Adjustable lighting color and position.
Flippy Hats (GML)
Mobile game I solo published to Apple and Google Play stores at age 16!
Highlights:
- 50,000 downloads in under a year.
- Completed 2-year development plan with 3 post-launch updates.
- Hired friend to make background music.
GGlow Garden (Unity, C#)
Developed tools for writers.
Highlights:
- Created Animal Crossing dialogue system.
- Collaboration with team writers to support all needs.
- Designed tool to let writers drag and drop stories into Unity engine.
Super Slippy Slime (GML)
Won 11th / 1000th in National Stem Video Game Challenge at age 15.
Highlights:
- 30 puzzles with 6 core mechanics.
- Slime particle explosions.
- Infinite repeating elevator music!
Contact Me!
Reach out at jonahpryan@gmail.com or in/jonah-ryan