Tomasz Chmielewski

I am a developer, student, and language lover.

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I am a student at Cornell University majoring in Computer Science. I enjoy web development, data science, and game design, but am always willing to learn more. Languages are my passion, so come talk with me in English, Polish, or Korean!

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Dano

December 2017 - January 2018

Dano is a simple, space-memorization Android application specifically built for Korean learners. Studying Korean for 4 years, I was unable to find a memorization app that fit all my needs, so I built my own. It features daily reminders, online sync/backup, and export to share word lists with friends.

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Home screen showing daily progress, and learn page where users study vocabulary.

Users can quickly add new words/phrases and see progress on old vocabulary.

Kirigami

August 2017 - December 2017

Play as a ninja that can cut through the fabric of space-time as he searches for his lost ninja stars. This game was built as part of a analytical-driven game design course, whose focus was to iteratively improve the game using statistics captured from thousands of players.

Play on Kongregate

Example gameplay where player is slicing the level to drag the platform towards the goal.

Heatmap showing where players would slice the level. This was used to determine where/why users where having difficulty on the tutorial.

RecTanks

April - May 2018

A multiplayer tank battle-arena where players can explore a procedurally-generated, fully destructible terrain. This game was built on a custom 3D-engine and features unique explosion/shield shaders, day/night cycle, and multiple language options.

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Player firing their cannon and hitting the skybox at the world border.

Multiplayer game where the player scores a direct hit against another tank.

Virtual Reality Reconstruction

January - August 2014

In partnership between Ellis Island and Bergen County Academies, we created a historically accurate reconstruction of the famous registry room for exploration in the Oculus Rift. Additionally, with support from the Columbia School of Arts we enabled users to experience various landmarks worldwide in virtual reality.

Registry room at Ellis Island reconstructed in virtual reality.

Haga Sophia experience created using 360-degree photographs provided by Columbia University

Fridge Raiders

February - May 2017

This award-winning LibGDX game was developed in 4 months under a 7 person team, and won the Audience Favorite Award as the annual GDIAC exposition. As software lead of the team, I designed the overall architecture and developed various physics interactions, GUI elements, and particle effects.

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Exploratory phase of the game where the player must avoid the line-of-sight of patrolling homeowners.

In the second phase, players roll and bounce around the house attempting to escape.

Blokus AI

January - May 2017

As a final project for Artificial Intelligence Practicum (CS4701), we implemented and trained a AI agent to play Blokus against humans and other AI agents. We first defined a set of popular stragies and then used a genetic learning algorithm to determine weights for each approach by playing against other AIs. The resulting AI agent had a >50% winrate against human opponents.

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User dragging and playing a piece in our custom GUI built using LibGDX in Java.

Blue AI agent dominated human player in Red

Cornell Rocketry Website

September - December 2015

As business team lead for the Cornell Rocketry Team, I took the initiative to completely redesign our team's website. It was built on top of a Bootstrap/jQuery frontend with a PHP/MySQL backend. It features CSS animations, a responsive design, and a custom-built CMS to easily make content changes for non-technical members.

Screenshot that shows that custom animated starry night overlayed by our team logo.

Two screenshots that highlight the responsive aspect of the site.

Speed of Light

March 2014

This virtual reality experience was developed in 24 hours and allows users to race a virtual Tron-esque bike against AI opponents. It was awarded the Grand Prize at the first ever HackBCA, a high-school hackathon whose judges included Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and Wolfram Research CEO Stephen Wolfram.

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In-game screenshot of racers waiting at the start line.

Jewelbots CEO, Sara Chipps, wearing the Oculus Rift while playing Speed of Light.

Escape From Mars

June - August 2014

Developed for a summer contest, this game allows the player to interact in a world built using images of real LEGO scenes. It uses parallax scrolling and perspective scaling to simulate a 3D world from just 2D images.

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Title Screen of Escape from Mars

In-game screenshot of user controlling center LEGO mini-figure while exploring a destroyed spaceship.