Han Meerholz

A game where you and your opponent are both cyber-Aztec gladiators, fighting each other, because only one gets to survive! Set in an industrialized Aztec city, reach the other side before your opponent to win!

I implemented player physics in water, and helped fixing bugs.

This was a school assignment where we started off selecting a dream job position, and based our projects off of that. I found mine as a Story Programmer for CD Projekt Red, and decided to create a tool for quest designers.

I ended up making a tool consisting of two parts: a simple Quest Creator UI tool, and a Quest System C++ library, Bequestor, that can import and keep track of quests created in the UI tool.

Using these tools, you can create quests with any number of both preset and custom prerequisites and objectives. Objectives can also depend on one another to allow for both sequential and branching quest paths.

Through this project, I learned a lot about quest design at a high level, but also API design in implementation, as well as soft skills of time management and planning.

A game made for a game jam organized by BUAS students. The theme was "out of reach", so we made a tower-climbing co-op game where you lift each other up with your stretchy arms. Our artists did an amazing job creating a wizard tower.

I myself learned a great deal about Unreal's local multiplayer, collision handling, and camera capabilities in these 3 short days.

For my first ever gamejam, the Global Game Jam of 2025, I worked alongside some talented designers and artist to create a silly parkour game where you use popping bubbles to climb your way to the heavens as a floppy fish.

This was also one of my first times working in Unreal, and my first time releasing an Unreal game. Not only did I learn a lot about Unreal as an engine, but I also learned how to collaborate within a game design team.

I worked on several of the core features of the gameplay: the bubble popping, bobbing in the water, and launches out of the water.

Naturally the title here is a bit of a joke. My first projects studying at BUAS were about recreating the original Metal Gear for the MSX, and its basic gameplay features. The second block went beyond this by introducing OpenGL, and consequently 3D graphics. You can also find the first block's project on my Itch.

I learned much about developing in Visual Studio, working with several external libraries, and developing for multiple platforms (our games this block ran on Windows, as well as a Raspberry Pi).

As a stylistic choice, I opted to literally recreate the first block's game (and thus the original MSX Metal Gear) as closely as possible, such that pointing the camera top-down gives you a 2D experience, but tilting it down exposes the true game.

Accretion is the first game I've ever developed and released. I created it as an intake project to get into my studies at BUAS.

The game is a simple arcade-esque survival game where you control a black hole around and consume asteroids floating by. As the game progresses, the speed gets worse. You get faster, but you lose mass faster as well. The goal is simply to get a high score.

While I had programmed in C++ before, this was my first time doing so in a game programming setting. It certainly was a learning experience, and I've learned a lot since making this game. Still, I would like to highlight where I started (and it's just fun to play).