The Portyl houses all the interesting projects created by Wen Loong. Other than that, it is a one-man creative studio producing high-quality works in various industries.

Producer - Chan Wen Loong (wenloong.c@digipen.edu)

Programming Lead - Kuan Yew Chong (yewchong.k@digipen.edu)

Game Programmer (Gameplay Systems) - Rocky Sutarius (rocky.sutarius@digipen.edu)

Game Programmer (UI) - Ho Jin Jie, Donovan (h.jinjiedonovan@digipen.edu)

Game Programmer (Backend) - Cheong Ngai Hang, Ryan (ngaihangryan.cheong@digipen.edu)

This project was completed in 12 weeks for a school project.

Lost in Space is an arcade-style management simulator. Work together to stay alive as long as possible!

Lost in Space

This took roughly three days to make. I recorded around 10 tracks and spliced the clean parts into a single performance. The many layers of compression was extremely important to get the modern pop vocal sound.

The harmonies were created by artificially pitch shifting the lead track and using different effects to achieve the stereo wideness. Reverb is controlled through automation to keep the vocals as clean as possible.

This cover is the product of my learning process on producing vocals. All the vocals, including the harmonies are all sung by me!

Perfect Night Cover

Perfect Night is the latest earworm that has been making the rounds online. More practice for me!

Perfect Night Lofi

Programming Lead - Chan Wen Loong (wenloong.c@digipen.edu)

Game Programmer (Camera) - Ho Jin Jie, Donovan (h.jinjiedonovan@digipen.edu)

Game Programmer (UI) - Pong Jia Yi, Joseph (j.pong@digipen.edu)

Game Programmer (Player) - Sim Yue Chen, Joshua (joshuayuechen.sim@digipen.edu)

Game Programmer (Interactables) - Tan Le Xuan, Tricia (lexuantricia.tan@digipen.edu)

This project was completed in 5 weeks for a school project.

The World of RGB is a casual puzzle platformer. Solve puzzles and get to the end!

The World of RGB

I’ve always seen people make these as fun little side projects so I thought I’d try making one too. Glad to see that my knowledge in web development is still intact despite not having touched it in years. This project is coded as a single page website, it commits a sin of web development by having the entire site coded on one single html file. Yes, inline vanilla css and javascript.

An amazing sequel to the first game. Web tools did not exist for the game yet, so I decided to be the first to create one.

Remnant 2 Trait Planner

Another song done and another practice session complete. This one was produced in a day! This session focused more on getting the feel for future bass chord stacks.

Bad At Us is an awesome song made by an equally awesome artist! I made this future bass inspired version for practice as well as to appreciate xooos’ new album: Made In Heart!

Bad At Us Remix

Turns out, music is just a part of life now. It’s hard to take a break when every single day is spent surrounded by music. Music analysis comes naturally and with that, inspiration for a new song.

Although this track still has its flaws, mixing is a very hard problem to tackle. I could always go back and regret, but that’s not beneficial in any way. I will improve and my next track will be even better!

Nerve was such an amazing song to produce, filling in as the fourth song that I’ve published. This was a track that I listened to and immediately felt the urge to produce an EDM version of it.

Nerve ft. Victoria Nadine

An amazing set of vocals can really nullify the brunt of the effort needed to make a song. I still strongly believe that songs with and without vocals are two entirely different beasts and the complexity of both are unique and incomparable. Personally, songs with vocals are infinitely easier to make because the vocals fill up most of the important space in the mix.

This song will be the final release this year and the break in music might extend over the upcoming 2-3 years. I am proud of how much I have been able to learn and master.

Pretty Lies is the third official entry in my discography. The track came together after I discovered a set of amazing vocal samples!

Pretty Lies

This track started off a year ago as a basic, terribly mixed concept. A combination of better synth choices, mixing decisions, and melodic progression was finally able to lift this song out of the depths. Featuring a distinct A and B section, the song finds a second unique way of expressing itself while maintaining the same groovy pattern throughout.

Stay Sharp is the second official entry in my discography. The track is ironically older than my first release, back then I had good ideas but lacked the execution. After months of polishing, it is finally ready to be heard around the world!

Stay Sharp

Most of the things in this pack are not complicated at all, just kind of tedious to keep track of. Cutscenes use a scoreboard that increases every tick along with plenty of execute ifs to check when a command should run.

This project was completed in 4 days over 2 weekends.

This short 2-3 minute experience takes you through a quest that has a very similar feel to Wynncraft. While a lot of the systems are hardcoded, this somewhat shows the possibility of creating a polished questing system that feels good to play.

A Slice of Wynncraft

There was no background inspiration for this one, I just sat down and created a song. It could have been mildly influenced by the myriad of songs I listened to that were in the house genre. I’m happy with the results and I’m glad that the mix sounds good in the end.

An original track. It sounds like it is in the House genre but I am not perfectly sure of it.

Distance

New songs pop up all the time on TikTok and Instagram, but only some will catch my ear and stick around for a while. The way the vocals hit on the original song seems too excitable for the mellow instrumental.

I love the track a lot and the sound for it surprisingly did not come from a Serum preset. I heavily processed the muted guitar preset that came with Studio One itself to create the shredding guitar chords. I also found a nice guitar VST that plays guitar swipe sounds to mimic a live player moving his hands up and down the fretboard.

The best part of making the track was sequencing the complex drums and integrating crashes and hihats into the already complicated beat. My previous tracks mostly avoided drum fills and cymbals because I never knew how to make them.

To seal the deal, the drum samples and FX are from KSHMR’s three producer packs.

This track is a reimagination of the popular TikTok song by Rokudenashi (ロクデナシ). Separating itself from the original’s calming vibes, this rock remix slams the vocals at you with more force by introducing a distorted guitar, heavier drums, and a bass guitar.

The Voice Remix

After listening to Camila Cabello’s new song, I heard potential in the vocals, but the instrumentals didn’t work for me.

I extracted the vocals using Lalal.ai’s AI, then supplemented the vocals with piano chords and KSHMR presets. To remake the drums, I used vintage soul loops and mixed them with ethnic percussion instruments.

This is my EDM version of the popular song by Camila Cabello. With a strumming synth laid atop a mixture of ethnic and breakbeat drumming, this track has a drum and bass vibe to it.

Bam Bam Remix

A quickie. Three hours from start to finish. This project was mainly trying to smoothen out the creation process and just feel out the sounds instead of spending hours tweaking and adjusting based on formulas, guides, and other nonsense.

An acquaintance suggested more bass. You know who you are. Previously, I was so engrossed in creating the perfect mix that I forgot what it meant to jam out to party music.

People don’t really care about complex chord progressions, drum polyrhythms, storytelling through melodies, and other fancy things. They simply want good bass and a kick to bop to. The song doesn’t have to be perfect.

Glyph

This is not a real service. Linkrrr was made for my personal use only.

This project was an exercise to ensure my capabilities in creating a basic single page website with some animated elements. Everything was built up from scratch by me except for the buttons, which were taken from codepen and tweaked to match the theme that I was going for.

There are many popular services that do a very simple thing, link people to other websites. I made a clone of it for fun.

Linkrrr

Another banger of a project. Two hours from start to finish. Enough said, enjoy the chill vibes.

A lofi track based off the sample from mollymcphaul’s Instagram reel.

peanut butter vibes

I am very happy to say how quickly I was able to produce this track. It took just over two hours from idea to publishing, including the cover art drawing and upload process. Music has been a pretty awesome journey for me. Being able to convert a concept into a produced piece of work quickly solidifies the doubts that I had of my mastery over music production.

A simple instrumental remake of Enemy by Imagine Dragons and J.I.D. This song is the title song of Arcane, a show based on the League of Legends lore and universe.

Enemy Remake

After upgrading Studio One 4 to the latest version, I can now use VST3 plugins where I couldn’t before. Using the variety of free plugins out there, along with the wide selection of free samples and presets, I made a track that I enjoyed listening to.

Countless hours of learning, tweaking, and polishing before I made something that I could be proud of. I’m genuinely happy to be able to put down music production and say that I’ve mastered another skill.

Flux is the first official entry in my discography. The track is heavily inspired by the future bass genre.

Flux

This project was completed in two quick days.

This project is a quick prototype I made to find out how much I’ve actually learnt in Unity and C#.

Dungeon RPG Template

This project was managed by CraveFX. I completed the programming half of the project with a little bit of guidance from my supervisor during my internship at CraveFX.

This project is an internal idea from CraveFX, submitted in the halloween filter competition that Instagram held. It’s a faithful recreation of the "Here’s Johnny" scene from "The Shining", where Jack Nicholson’s character breaks the door with an axe and pokes his head through the door.

The second image shows a vague idea of my solution to this project.

The project was two weeks long. I learnt Spark AR two weeks earlier and I already had prior knowledge in node-based programming, so this wasn’t too difficult to do.

A Halloween-themed Instagram filter created in Spark AR. Made during my internship at CraveFX.

Halloween Filter

The bastion remnant blocks caught my eye when it was first announced. Blackstone bricks definitely resembled the seared bricks from Tinker’s Construct.

I took notes of some features I liked from Tinker’s Construct like the smeltery, casting items, alloy metals, tool abilities, and the dang guide book that I keep losing. Then, I simplified it (somewhat) so that casual players could pick it up without too much difficulty and shifted it to the end of the Minecraft ore progression chart.

I was hoping it could be a little companion update to 1.16 to add some more endgame stuff. As if the nether update wasn’t enough.

This datapack has a lot going under the hood. Upon installing, it detects the version of Minecraft you’re playing on and runs code for that version. This means that this is a one-size-fits-all datapack that will not break, allowing new content updates to be played in any supporting version.

It can even signal to other datapacks to enable interconnected features that would otherwise require special modification.

Tinkerer’s Craft is a Minecraft Datapack developed by **touchportal** as a companion content update to 1.16. It introduces a new multi-block structure, more vanilla progression, and lots of new metals, tools, quirks, and custom enchants to the game.

Tinkerer’s Craft

This console was given to me by a friend who won it in a lucky draw. The device emulates the original Sega Genesis’s 16-bit hardware. It comes with 2 controllers and a in-built catalog of 42 classic games.

This was taken using a Sony a7iii mirrorless camera in a makeshift lightroom. The shot was composed with the help of two LED lights and a 50mm f1.2 prime lens.

Sega Genesis Mini

This song was made in Studio One 4 using default presets bundled with the software. The actual final track was produced in a day, but the main melody was generated naturally after listening to a few hundred hours of k-pop and pop music.

The name Frozen Chilli came about while testing out sounds for the main melody. The lead synth could be tuned down to have a chill vibe and turned up to give the song a kick. Other than that it doesn’t really have any meaning except that it made for a pretty color palette and single cover.

This was more of a fun project than anything, I wanted to make an interesting audio visualizer in a day (and render it through the night) so I kept it simple and it turned out to give a retro vibe. Admittedly the boole function caused quite a few mesh glitches so I added film static to disguise it as an intended effect.

The video was created in Cinema 4D, rendered with ProRender, and edited using DaVinci Resolve.

Frozen Chilli is my second track ever! Still learning and on the music grind to become a producer.

Frozen Chilli

Rendering Valenberg’s pixel art with a realistic touch.

The Valenberg Project

This project is a final year student project by Chan Wen Loong and Li Yuxuan, from Temasek Polytechnic (TP). The project is supervised by Mdm Lye Sau Lin. The project’s client is Ms Poh Nguk Lau from the School of Applied Science in TP.

This project is under the Temasek Polytechnic domain. The source code, project files, and compiled builds will not be shared on this website although code snippets can be found for documentation purposes.

The tools developed for the project is owned by Portyl Studios and has been made open-source by Chan Wen Loong under the GNU GPLv3 licence.

The objective is to create an AR app to visualize the molecular structure of transition metals to aid the students in Applied Science in exploring the concept of superimposability.

TM Visualization

No Man’s Sky Album

Portyl Logo

Team Fortress 2

It was designed to look very sleek and rounded without any care for functionality. Partially inspired by the Microsoft Surface products, it would be connected using magnets, allowing it to be seperated at will.

This project was a second-year group project at Temasek Polytechnic. My group had five people in total.

Everything was rendered in Cinema 4D using ProRender. The PBR workflow makes all the materials look natural as compared to the standard workflow taught in school. The lightboxes that can be seen in the editor are also created by me, for the purposes of creating realistic soft-lighting for this project.

The iPhone XX product is a re-imagination of the Samsung Galaxy Fold if it was released by Apple.

iPhone XX

Rocket League Starter Pack

A photo of each town or city in the Kyoto Region (Gen 1) on the PokéFind server.

Kyoto Album

As a staff member of PokéFind at the time, I asked Danny (the owner of PokéFind) for the world files for these maps to make my own renders for them. These maps were paid commissions by Everbloom.

Magicavoxel was used to render the map. A cloudy sky background and additional color grading were added later in Photoshop.

Renders of the original five Pokéwars Maps from PokéFind.

Pokéwars Maps

One day while messing around in the dev server as a staff member of PokéFind, the developers were testing out the new day/night cycle that they were going to implement. They gave me the opportunity to take one screenshot of PokéFind at night.

I merged the photo with another screenshot that I took later on and created a smooth transition between them. It turned out to be a smash hit within the community.

Generic images created for the PokéFind server.

PokéFind Album

A photo of each town or city in the Jataro Region (Gen 2) on the PokéFind server.