Tarcísio Costa

Hi there! Lately I have been working on a new portfolio page. About time to update it to something that looks better and is also more flexible. I am looking forward to having ready as soon as possible, but before I test things properly, and make sure everything looks good to go, I won’t be redirecting to the new service (wordpress).

Most of the content I have here is already on the new wordpress page, the only thing I’ll really miss is the filter per tech I have here on this tumblr theme.

Hope to be done soon!

Ping is a game where the player perceives the world as waves of energy, everything else is pitch dark, and the goal is to bring life back to this dying environment. This is done, primarily, by taking and giving energy from one object to another. This interaction mainly exists between the dark void and the plants, animals and ancient idols that are met while exploring the game world.  This game was our master thesis at UCSC, and the team was made of three people. Here you can find one video explained by one member of the team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPGA4qIGnKo

For our Facebook page head to www.facebook.com/thatpinggame

https://supermariomakerbookmark.nintendo.net/profile/tarcisiotmeshop This is my Mario Maker profile where all my designed stages can be bookmarked to be played.

See it on Amazon. “Caelus, a land divided. The nation of Aeria, high in the skies. The nation of Industria, struggling to survive after the destruction of its people. The nation of Opaca, thriving underground. Although they exist as individuals, the boundaries between these three nations are not as strong as one might expect. Become a denizen of Caelus. Choose to aid your people, or work with others to restore the land to what it once was. The fate of the world is in your hands”

Terra Divisa is a tabletop RPG developed in 10 weeks for a MS course at UC Santa Cruz. At the end of the course, the RPG was published  on Amazon.

You can play this game here.

Dynamic Light Maze is a game made under a game Jam where we had to make games based on classmates, and the theme I got was "what you see is what you get". So a maze is generated, and the walls not shown change when you are not seeing them. So the path to the exit will keep changing.

Surviving Alpha is an endless maze-runner developed for a PCG class at UC Santa Cruz.

You can play the game here.

Gotta go fast is a 2D side scroller platformer developed during a 48 hour Game Jam at UC Santa Cruz. The theme was "to make a long story short", so in this game, the protagonist plays the same stage over and over again, but every time the stage gets smaller and he gets faster as a metaphor of his busy life without time for his family.

MultiPong is the result of my curiosity towards iOS/mobile development using Unity. This project was developed to understand touch and camera input for mobile devices using Unity.

Project Paint is a mock-up Wii U party game. Players take turns drawing on the gamepad, and then they must guess what was drawn when the picture replays itself on the TV.

There is also an action mode in which the person must use every tool possible to simulate motion when the picture replays itself.

Newer Flipside is a modification on The Flipside to make it a coop game.

One player can jump high, the other one he can turn into a box and scale. When they flip, they change positions.

The Flipside is a 2D side scroller platformer developed for a course in the Games and Playable Media MS at UC Santa Cruz.

The character can mirror his position and flip there to solve puzzles. But he also flips the enemies and friends.

This is an early version of the framework working with a Super Nintendo emulator running Super Mario World as a proof-of-concept. Kinect Framework was developed as the final assignment for my undergrad in Computer Science. It is capable of tracking poses, built-in gestures, joints, and also custom gesture recording and pairing them with actions and button presses with an ease to use interface.

World of Elements was my first game project ever. I made this game to have it submitted for the Brasil Game Show festival.

Simple Traffic Simulator was developed for an assignment in the Systems Performance Analysis course in my Computer Science undergrad. Simulation is run for smart and fixed time traffic lights, csv files are exported and processed for the results.

Stage 3 is a proof-of-concept mini-game that uses joint tracking for steering the car. Kinect Framework was developed as the final assignment for my undergrad in Computer Science. It is capable of tracking poses, built-in gestures, joints, and also custom gesture recording and pairing them with actions and button presses with an ease to use interface.

Stage 1 is a proof-of-concept mini-game that uses poses and joint tracking for interacting with the world. Kinect Framework was developed as the final assignment for my undergrad in Computer Science. It is capable of tracking poses, built-in gestures, joints, and also custom gesture recording and pairing them with actions and button presses with an ease to use interface.

Stage 2 is a proof-of-concept mini-game that uses joint tracking for jumping over the gaps in this stage. Kinect Framework was developed as the final assignment for my undergrad in Computer Science. It is capable of tracking poses, built-in gestures, joints, and also custom gesture recording and pairing them with actions and button presses with an ease to use interface.