Projects

Here is a list of basically every project I’ve taken the time to document somewhat on this site. Includes personal projects, collaborative efforts and uni work.

Ongoing

Magewinds

A tabletop miniature skirmish wargame in which everyone is a wizard. You can check it out and get all the rules on the game’s official website.

Abandoned

Games

Quiver

Quiver is a cross-platform pseudo-3d game engine I was writing in my spare time in C++. It grew out of the Box2D raycasting experiment I wrote about here and here and became quite a fruitful learning project. You can check out the source code at the GitHub repository.

Interstellar Soirée (Global Game Jam 2016)

Space diplomacy. Jam theme: ‘Ritual’. Made with Dziek Dyes-Bolt (programmer), Tone Persson, Callum Fowler (artists), Chris D’Arcy (audio).

• Unity, C#
• Platform: Windows
• Xbox 360 controller required
• Blog post
• Global Game Jam page

Nomad (unfinished prototype) (2015)

Space exploration with an unconventional movement system.

• Unity, C#
• Platforms: Windows, Mac (and Linux?)
• Blog post
• Download on itch.io

Flappy Word (October - December 2015)

Typing-based Flappy Bird clone

• Unity using C#
• Platforms: Windows, Web, Mac, Linux(?)
• Download/Play on itch.io
• Blog posts tagged ‘Flappy Word’
• Full source
• Repository

AMPS (January - August 2015)

Neon musical platformer in which objects in the world move to the beat of the music.

• 3rd year group project gone big. The full story is too long to recite here.
• 8 months of development
• 7 team members: 3 programmers, 2 sound designers, 1 level designer, 1 artist
• Contributed to engine, gameplay and audio-handling code; implemented synchronisation of game objects with the music, which can be sped up and slowed down; managed the audio asset pipeline.
• Demoed to the public for 4 days at our own booth at the Dare Indie Showcase.
• C++, Sony’s PhyreEngine
• Platforms: Windows (requires DirectX 11), PS4
• Visit the itch.io page for more information and to download.

Spirit Shift (August 2014)

Endless runner with world-shifting mechanic.

• A team effort made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 30 (theme: Connected Worlds). Connor Halford and myself took the role of programmers while Tobias Cook and Cameron Moore made the art.
• Engine: Game Maker
• Platform: Windows
• Ludum Dare page
• itch.io page

Graphics Programming

Water (2014)

• DirectX 11, C++
• Part 1 of my Graphics Programming with Shaders coursework (Download)
• Water plane is tessellated. Waves formed by manipulating vertices in the domain shader. Normal map used to add some noisiness to the surface.
• Water reflects the skybox cubemap
• Bonus: full-screen pixelation effect (the easiest full-screen effect to write!)

Compute Shader Voxel Space (2014)

More deets in the video description. Also this.

• DirectX 11, C++
• Part 2 of my Graphics Programming with Shaders coursework (Download)
• Compute shader port of the ‘voxel space’ rendering algorithm implementation on display at Simulation Corner

Other Programming

Procedural Walker (2015)

More notes in the video description.

• Autodesk Maya. Plugin written using the C++ API, which I learned by myself because it wasn’t covered in the module. A sprinkling of Python and MEL.
• Made for the Scripting and Dynamics coursework

Leg Auto-Rigger (2014)

• Autodesk Maya. Python script.
• Chose to build this for my Tech Art coursework
• Demo video