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Ruins of the Forgotten: A Wild Survival

Lead XR Engineer · In development - Early Access planned Q3 2026

First-person open-world survival horror on Steam - procedurally generated jungle islands where wildlife turns hostile after dark.

Unity 3D
C#
HLSL / Custom Shaders
Animation Systems
AI Behavior Trees
Procedural Generation

Ruins of the Forgotten is a first-person survival horror game about a forest ranger stranded in a jungle altered by a supernatural anomaly. Players manage hunger, thirst, and health while the wildlife turns hostile after dark.

What I am building

My work spans custom HLSL shaders for the jungle’s day and night atmosphere, animation systems for peaceful-to-hostile creature transformations, and AI behaviour trees that respond to time of day and player state. The islands are procedurally generated, so no two playthroughs share the same layout.

Screenshots

First-person view holding a spear, a deer grazing in a sunlit jungle clearing with palms and flowers — Daytime: wildlife is passive and the jungle is safe to forage.

The same deer at night, its body covered in glowing red markings, under a dark storm sky — After dark: the same wildlife turns hostile, driven by custom shader and animation work.

A stone archway at night framing a standing stone carved with a glowing blue rune — Ruins and rune sites scattered through the procedurally generated islands.

Daytime building mode with a translucent wireframe structure preview placed on grass — Placement preview while building.

Screenshots from the Steam listing.

Where it stands

The public Steam demo is live, with Early Access planned for Q3 2026 and an expected 4-6 month iteration period. The current build brings together 3 production systems - procedural islands, day/night-driven wildlife AI, and custom atmosphere/animation work - into one playable survival loop.

Steam listing: Ruins of the Forgotten: A Wild Survival.