Colin Page
Colin Page
Gameplay Programmer & Systems Designer
Time-travel system records and layers player actions
Clones interact with each other and their environment to craft items
Gravity-based maps with looping borders
Three parallel win conditions (Delivery, Elimination, Bone)
Controller-agnostic local multiplayer lobby menu
Procedural map generation
Monsters use a node network to navigate and hear sounds
Synchronizing metronomes with complex, multi-section rhythms
Invisible system assists the player's imperfect timings
Level "star system" (for the completionists)
About the Game
Timeworks (2024) was the first Steam release by Starworks Studios, a group of 11 Drexel students including myself. It is a singleplayer 3D puzzle-platformer, similar to Portal but with time-travel.
The original idea spawned from a game jam game I created in 2020. I pitched it to the team in October 2022, and we worked on it for over 15 months with support from Drexel's Entrepreneurial Game Studio.
I worked as one of two dedicated programmers, as well as a game designer and writer.
The player inserts blueprint cards and items into an assembler
Time-travelling creates copies of the player's past movements and actions
My dialogue system supports multiple speakers as they enter/exit/emote
Recognitions
Published to Steam with 51 positive reviews
Awarded a $19,000 grant by the Charlese D. Close School of Entrepreneurship
Honorable Mention for Best Student Game, 2025 Independent Games Festival at GDC
Accepted to showcase at MAGFest, AwesomeCon, and TooManyGames
Process and Documentation
My goal was to make each mechanic as drag-and-drop as possible for our level designers.
I created prefabs for the spawnpoints, assemblers, item crates, laser fields, pressure plates, etc. Each prefab has all relevant fields serialized and editable without touching code.
I created documentation for these systems as well as a how-to video to help answer common designer questions.
Swapping the contents of a crate using ScriptableObjects
Google Sheets dialogue imports directly to Unity, utilizing my custom event & tag parser
I wrote an electric wire Shader Graph and an editor-time path preview
Time-travel System
The time-travel system lets objects record and playback a series of keys.
Explanation with code snippets coming soon!