Developing Since 2022
OverDawn
Sequel to Dawngeon, Overdawn is a fast-paced, bullet-time, bullet-hell shooter featuring thrilling gunplay and precise headshots. Playing as the chosen ones, you must break back into the past, to the doom-impending state of Andrean, where your actions may alter the course of the universe. Will you undo the apocalypse or be the cause of its destruction? The choice is yours.
As the solo engineer on the project, I built out every part of the game — from the overall systems, combat, and dialogue, to developing custom painter tools using Odin to better support our designers. While crafting Overdawn’s unique visual identity, I really aimed to push the pixel top-down genre to its limits. Through this process, I developed a strong understanding of game development across multiple disciplines — from streamlining the art pipeline to overseeing full production.
Overdawn is a selected game for 2025 USC Expo by Alumni Panelist. Steam wishlist and Kickstarter are on their way!
About me
Hi, my name is Youngje Park — I sometimes go by YJ — and I'm a game developer with 5+ years of experience in Unity, currently working on Overdawn. While I'm in the process of reworking my portfolio, you should definitely check out Dawngeon and Overdawn. Dawngeon is a game I solo-developed during my freshman year of high school, and it has since reached over 140,000 downloads globally. Overdawn is my current passion project — I'm leading it as the game director and founding Overdawn Studio and currently expanding the team to over 10 people.
Thanks for checking it out!
My First Published Game
Dawngeon
Dawngeon is pixel rogue-like role playing game (RPG) that I originally developed for the Appstore. I wanted to build a fun 2D roguelike adventure with emphasis in replayability and storytelling that you can play wherever you want, even without wifi. This was my first time creating a mobile game, and I learned to use XCode, experienced App publishing, and received numerous user feedback and support.
Recieving feedback from the community, I updated the game several times. Dawngeon 1.4 and 1.5 adds new characters, enemies, game mode, and major convenient features. It also stabilizes and upgrades the arcade gameplay.
21M Impressions (Appstore)
140K+ Downloads globally (Appstore)
4.6 User Rating (Appstore US)
The game also entered the Appstore Adventure Chart placing at 130th on March 3, 2022.
“Probably one of the best games I’ve played”
“Top ten hidden gem?”
“Best Roguelike out there”
