I chose to create Starwarp after playing Stargate on the Atari 2600, a game which itself is inspired by Defender I was impressed with how fun and fluid the game felt to play, and I was curious how far I could take the same concept while being free’d from the restrictions of a 6502 The…

In my spare time I have created a simple game for Android, called Circles. It’s designed to be perfect for picking up and putting down as you go about your day. Your objective is to resize the circle to fit the holes which keep appearing before being overwhelmed. Points are awarded based on how accurate…

For my final year project at University I chose the research question: “Could a development tool addon for the Unity Game Engine which procedurally generates caves produce results comparable in playability and quality to hand-made efforts” To answer this question, I had to undertake a multi-month project where I researched how real-life caves are formed,…

I participated in the Ludum Dare 48 game jam, where the theme was Deeper and Deeper. Having done all my previous game jams in a team, I decided to work solo on this one, giving me total creative freedom. The idea that came to me after seeing the theme Deeper and Deeper was cave exploration.…

As part of my coursework, I was tasked with combining middleware to create a Game Engine in C++. I chose to use NVIDIA Physx and Irrlicht for my physics and graphics subsystems respectively. I also created a separate level editor, that allowed the user to move around the scene, adjust objects positions, and even load…

I recently upgraded my PC to bring it into the modern era. My old one had served me very well and I had owned it for over 5 years. It was the first PC I ever built and while it was once a very powerful machine, it was starting to struggle with the tasks I…

I’ve always had an interest in vintage computers, and has someone who wasn’t born until the year 2000 I didn’t get to experience a lot of this technology while it was current. However now that I am furloughed from my part time job I have a lot more time on my hands, and I have…

I have created a Discord bot that is currently in over 200 servers and counting! The idea came to me when I was in a Discord voice channel with a friend, and we wanted to watch a video together. The typical way of achieving this would be to use an existing website such as mycircle.tv,…

As I mentioned previously, I have opted to create my own placement instead of getting on at an existing company. The company I am a part of, Campfire Games, have been hard at work on our first game which is called Cloud Bastion. It’s a simple, turn based J-RPG style game that involves randomized characters,…

This was a project I completed as part of my degree last year, but I am only now getting round to adding it to my portfolio. We were tasked with creating a coding a simple hovercraft game using OpenGL and C++. We were expected to write code to import 3D models, manage physics (E.g create…