Stew Esho

Hello! I am a software engineer with years of experience in the gaming industry, having worked at Meta Reality Labs and Uken Games. Alongside my professional experience, I have a wide portfolio of completed projects that can be found on this site. I have a degree in computer science with a minor in mathematics from the University of Toronto. I am currently open to work, so please feel free to reach out and connect!

よろしくおねがいします！Meta Reality LabsやUken Gamesを含むゲーム発売会社で数年の経験を持ているプログラマーです。 そして、このサイトで単独に作りましたゲームもあります。 トロント大学から計算機科学専門と数学副専攻で卒業しました。日本語能力試験N２レベルも合格しました。 就職しているし、ご連絡おねがします！

Projects

LoopBox

• GDScript
• Godot

• LoopBox is a puzzle platformer about moving boxes and looping their positions.
• Created in 4 days as a submision for GMTK Game Jam 2025

ShishFish

• GDScript
• Godot

• ShishFish is a score-attack game about making a shish kabob with the bill of a swordfish.
• Created in 1 week as a submission for Godot Wild Jam #84

Pitch Perfect

• GDScript
• Godot

• Step on the mound as a pitcher going for the coveted perfect game. Can you overcome your nerves and strike out all 9 batters?
• Created in Godot 4.3 engine and playable in web!
• Made solo and entirely from scratch for Brackeys 2025.1 game jam
  • All assets (including models, animations, textures, and audio) were created by me

Guardian of the 'Za

• C#
• Unity3D

• Rhythm-based “pseudo-platformer” where you don’t control the character, but the environment around him.
• As a guardian angel, protect a pizza delivery guy dancing to music by activating traps to the beat of the music
• Capstone project at the University of Toronto (CSC404, Winter 2022)
• Led team of 10 students during development by designing game, delegating work, and running team sprints
• Wrote gameplay code in C# using Unity Engine. Final game build available to play on itch.io

Reflect, Refract, Escape

• C#
• Unity3D

• Educational multiplayer puzzle video game.
• Designed to teach optics to high school students.
• Completed for research at the University of Toronto.
• Play-test data (from a collection of testers that included current high-school students) was analyzed to conclude the optimal educational game design elements.

Slymes

• C#
• Unity3D

• Online multiplayer arena game (similar to agar.io).
• Project involved devloping game mechanics, inventory management, online netplay, and graphical interfaces.
• Players control a "Slyme" through wide open 3-D worlds, collecting food to grow larger and absorbing other, smaller Slymes.
• Available on Steam

Reso Crawler

• C#
• Unity3D

• Procedurely-generated dungeon crawler.
• The size of the screen is the player’s healthbar.
  • The more damage they’ve taken, the less they can see.
• Developed from scratch in 48 hours for the Ludum Dare 42 game jam
  • Voted as one of the top 100 most innovative entries.

Galactic Cuisine

• Lua
• LOVE2D

• Physics-focused platformer fully developed in 48 hours for the Ludum Dare 38 game jam.
• Coded from scratch in Lua using the LOVE2D framework.
• Dynamically loads levels from .lua files generated by Tiled.

Prepenol

• Lua
• Corona SDK

• Shoot-em’ up game for Android devices.
• Developed from scratch in Corona SDK using the Lua scripting language
• Player uses on-screen controls to guide spaceship through space, collect powerups, and shoot an endless guantlet of enemies.

stewesho.com

• HTML5
• Sass
• Javascript
• Markdown
• Jekyll
• jQuery

• That’s the site you’re on right now!
• Hosted on GitHub Pages using the Jekyll static-site templating engine.

Skills

I use a different variety of languages and frameworks depending on what I am working on.