Maya McDaniel

Charon’s Companion

Charon’s Companion is a Third Person, Puzzle, Platformer, Adventure game where you explore the underworld as Nyx the cat. Casual players who enjoy exploration and puzzle-solving will enjoy journeying through the charming yet terrifying underworld, utilizing your shadow and cat-like mobility to ultimately guide your family back to Charon.

This game was inspired from different games such as Stray, and Lethal Company, mixed with Greek mythology. Charon’s Companion was made as a semester long project at RIT. I was the visionholder and art lead for this project. I created concept art, the 3D cat model, animations, and set up the environment for the final level.

Play the game on our itch page! https://vwl2.itch.io/charons-companion

Concept Art for Charon’s Companion

Quick environment concept art for Charon’s Companion.

Team members include:

Kevin McNulty : Producer

Maya McDaniel : Vision Holder / Art Lead

JiaXu (Josh) Chen : Narrative Lead, Level Designer, Assistant Producer

Kevin Xiao : Tech Lead

Victoria Lau : Artist

Lantian (Ciel) : Xu Artist

Zejun Meng : Programmer / Gameplay Designer

Dragon Heist

In Dragon Heist, you play as dragons! Our main characters in this game are two dragons who unfortunately, have had their treasure horde wrongfully stolen from them from an evil sorcerer. Now it is up to you to help them meet justice and take back what’s rightfully theirs.

Each player will have to take the reigns of one of the two dragons: A Sneaky Thief Dragon or a Powerful Warrior Dragon. Each of these dragons have their own unique mechanics, abilities and playstyles. Both players will need to work together to infiltrate the fortress of the evil sorcerer and reclaim their stolen treasure.

Dragon Heist is a game created for a Grad class at RIT. I was the 2D artist and animator for the characters, as well as the audio designer.

My team members included:

Ashank Rajendran (Programming), Kevin McNulty (Level Design) , Luke Justice (Programming), Ciel Xu (Art & VFX), Maya McDaniel (2D Art & Audio)

Concept Character Art for VAMPWOLF

VAMPWOLF is a turn-based RPG video game that was created in 4 weeks. Within those 4 weeks I created unique chracater and UI art for the game.

I’ve also included some of the spell icons for the vampire and werewolf.

Pharo’s Tale

Here is the trailer for my Senior Cpastone that I worked on with a team. I was the project manager, modeler for the main Ferret, made the animations for the Ferret, and coded some of the UI. Here is the link for the game files https://maya-mcd.itch.io/noodle-skadoodle

Team member are: Maya McDaniel, Kylie Warrick, Justin Slagter, Antonio Ventresca, Artist Traynum.

This is some of the concept art I made for the game Pharo’s Tale.

Environmental Design

This is my final Senior project in Environmental Game Design. This video captures the outdoor world I created which leads the players into the dungeon section. The story for this project is:

An old Western town decides to move to an ancient land where they discover magic of untold power deep within a dungeon. Tampering with forces out of their control, they awaken evil Bone Dragons that seek to destroy the living. Without any defences, the Western town gets demolished, and leaves no survivors. Only the player is left to discover the tradegy and magic this place holds.

Kira the Huntress

This game, Kira the Huntress, was made for my Multimedia and Game Design course. It was made through Unity and the goals of this project was to put together a side scroller game with multiple levels and different enemies the player can destroy.

Download the game files here: https://maya-mcd.itch.io/kira-the-huntress