For the second company games jam we were given the option of two core experiences, and we decided to develop a somewhat (“ported”) virtual reality reflection experience. I was really pleased to get some more time in Unreal doing something…
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“Reflection” is a game level demo developed with Unreal Engine 4 as part of a Games Jam. The ideas and gameplay were derived from the designs and prototype for the “Dream Puzzle” game. The original ideas were transformed from the…
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Booty is a game that was iteratively developed and play tested as a team whilst I attended the Alex Trowers ‘But is it Fun?’ workshop at the Animex Games Festival 2012. The initial design was a card-based game that involves…
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I signed up for another Alex Trowers workshop/masterclass called ‘Let’s Build a game in Unity Masterclass’. Firstly, I would like to add that I cannot recommend attending any of these classes enough. Alex is a fantastic and inspirational teacher with…
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The HomeView application was the artefact I developed for my Final Year Project whilst studying on the BSc (Hons) Software Development course at Teesside University. It was written in C# and uses the DirectShow and DirectSound C++ libraries via a…
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I’ve did doing some experimental coding with the official microsoft kinect SDK (see Blog Archive 24 August 2011). This eventually manifest itself as a interesting home, PC controlling application, which I then implemented in my final year project HomeView (see the…
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The ‘dream puzzle’ was a gameplay idea taken from the ‘Caught in the Web’ content development piece. The application is intended to be a proof of concept to demonstrate the puzzle and how it is played. The puzzle engine can…
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I unfortunately do not own a Nintendo DS. But, I love Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training! So I wrote my own program which does just that! Implementing threading, the game is fast and records your high score locally through a .brain…
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