willguimont/dashy-dango

Play it here: https://willguimont.github.io/dashy-dango/

William Guimont-Martin

Interests

• Deep learning
• Robotics
• Computer vision
• Machine learning
• Programming languages

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Research in Deep Learning and 3D sensors for autonomous vehicules @ Université Laval (2023-...)
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Research in Deep Learning and 3D sensors for autonomous vehicules @ Université Laval (2021-2023)
• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, distinction profile @ Université Laval (2017-2021)

Experiences

Teaching Assistant for GLO-4030 and GLO-7030 @ Université Laval (Autumn 2021, Winter 2023, 2024)

Graduate-level course on deep learning (Apprentissage par réseaux de neurones profonds)

• Conducting laboratory session
• Developing fresh educational content for the course
• Overseeing the operation of a computing cluster dedicated to the course
• Correction and providing feedback on assignments

Teaching Assistant for GLO-4001 and GLO-7021 @ Université Laval (Winter 2022 - Autumn 2022, 2023)

Graduate-level course on mobile robotics (Introduction à la robotique mobile)

• Conducting laboratory session
• Developing fresh educational content for the course
• Overseeing the operation of a computing cluster dedicated to the course
• Correction and providing feedback on assignments
• Migrating laboratory code to a simulator using ROS and Gazebo
• Taught a class on Kalman filters

Teaching Assistant for GLO-3013 @ Université Laval (Autumn 2023)

Undergraduate-level course in which the students have to develop a robot autonomously solving various tasks (Projet de conception multidisciplinaire)

• Participated in the course redesign
• Build an autonomous robot using ROS2
• Using LiDAR for autonomous navigation

Teaching Assistant for improving computer science degrees @ Université Laval (Summer 2023)

• New pedagogical material about Bash scripting and Docker
• Improvements to existing courses
• Ateliers en développement logiciel
• Atelier - Écriture de scripts et automatisation de tâches de développement logiciel
• Atelier - Conteneurisation de projets de développement logiciel avec Docker

Teaching Assistant for GLO-2003 @ Université Laval (Winter 2021)

Introduction aux processus du génie logiciel

• Correction of programming homeworks axed on the software engineering process and software architecture
• Tutoring for teams
• Building new course material
• Exercice TDD String Calculator (Version courte)
• Refactoring

Deep Learning and Robotics Research Intern @ Norlab (Summer 2020 - Autumn 2020)

• Application of deep learning to LiDAR data
• Object detection
• Point cloud processing
• Domain adaptation

Virtual and Augmented Reality Research Intern @ Bentley Systems (Summer 2019)

• Patent: Côté S and Guimont-Martin W, "Aerial Cable Detection and 3D Modeling from Images"
• Applied research
• Computer vision
• Worked on applying AR and VR to infrastructure workflows
• Photogrammetry

Software Engineering Intern @ Olympus IMS (Summer 2018)

• Applied research
• Computer vision
• Analysis of ultrasound inspection data
• Visualization of 3D ultrasound data

Automation Developper @ Devoray (Summer of 2015, Winter of 2016 and Winter 2017)

• Computer vision
• Automation of industrial machines
• Programmable logic controller (PLC)
• Robotics

Volunteering

Programming Mentor @ My local secondary school's FIRST robotics team (2015-...)

• Teach programming and robotics to secondary school students

Extras

• btw i use arch
• vim > emacs
• js bad
• rust good
• a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?

dashy-dango's Issues

Changing wave system so that after x seconds a new wave starts

Right now the wave only ends when all enemy are dead, to prevent the player from just running away the wave needs to start after x seconds even if they player has not killed all enemy.

Add enemy that spiral around the player and slowly aproach them.

Add option to change colour palette.

The z key is currently unused, it can be used to change the colour palette.

Creating art for the game.

We have almost no art right now.

Remove dependency on a PlayerComponent.

We expect a PlayerComponent to exist all over the code which causes a panic after we destroy the PlayerComponent. The game need to behave normally even without a PlayerComponent.

Handle player death

Rework title and game over screen

Give the dango a distinct feature to recognise when the dash is up.

The dash has a timeout, we need to give the player a visual indication that they have or do not have a dash available.

Add environmental feature on the terrain.

Environmental feature may be placed on the terrain, those may be decoration (grass) or may also be barrier to the player (rock)

Make a wave system

The game will be composed of a series of wave. When all enemies are dead, the next wave start, if the wave lasted for x seconds, the next wave starts even if enemies are still alive.

Screen shake on dash

Add enemy that can shoot the player from a distance.

Design more wave.

The game need many waves to be complete.

figuring out how to handle sprite

How should sprite be handled. There would need to be multiple sprite for one entity.

Make flies moving faster when out of screen

Add a pause after death or win.

Death and win are too immediate, there should be a pause before the death/win screen apear and be interacted with

Add tip to give insight into the score system.

Make world more abstract and less coupled to the actual game logic

Design score system

Designing a system where player gain score by kill enemy. They are also loosing point as time goes on to incentivize fast play.

Add more colour palette.

Changing wave system to summon stronger wave of enemy sa time goes on.

Right now the same wave apears over and over again. The wave needs to get harder as you beat them.

Show remaining enemies on screen

Make the eye of the dango move in the direction of travel

This will be done by having separate sprite for the dango and it's eye.

Design a boss enemy.

The game needs to have some closure. After x amount of wave, a boss should appear. We need to make a cool concept for this boss.

Modify enemy to target an arbitrary entity instead of hardcoding target player.

This would allow more creativity by making enemy entity spiral around each other.

Arrow to enemies

Design a beginner friendly enemy

Neither of our current 3 enemy are really beginner friendly. We should create a new type of very weak enemy for the first few waves.

Adding ability to dash

Being able to dash in the chosen direction. Also need to decide the behavior if no direction is chosen, either cancel the dash entirely or default to a certain direction.

Add highscore screen.

On the death screen and win screen, we could display a list of the top 5 highscore. This would require the save feature of wasm4.

Code own sin and cos function to reduce cart size.

sin and cos sure do be thicc, they take up around 6k of cart size alone. We should code our own function using taylor series in order to reduce cart size or find a way not to use them.

More grass

Make sound effect.

The game has no sound effect, there should be sound effect for different action.

Screen shake

Adding trait system

All system would implement the same interface that would contain eventqueue and a function to call the system with the registry.

Coding enemy entity

Coding some enemy. Enemy would be controlled by a basic ai. A few different enemy should be created for diversity.