Clown Carnival Carnage - Global Game Jam 2024

I returned to Northumbria University to take part in GGJ24. This years theme was 'Make Me Laugh'. Me and my team deceided to create a game based around a carnival as this would be an easily manageable workload as we all created a 'minigame' each.

My role this year was to create the can shooting carnival game while helping develop the game logic.

Clown Carnival Carnage was developed using Unity.

RootZ - Global Game Jam 2023

I participated in GGJ23 at Northumbira Univeristy, the theme for this year was 'Roots'. Me and a team of 4 people created a game where the player is tasked to defend a house from invading roots that if left untouched will spawn small mandrakes that will attack the player. GGJ23 at Northumbria University was sponsored by Sumo Digital who awarded this as the 'Winning' entry.

My role in the team was to help create the perks, develop a perk management system and develop aspects of the player controller.

Rootz was developed using Unity.

Experimental Workspace - Dissertation

To complete my bachelor degree in Computer Science I wrote a research paper on the effects of performance tuning techniques used within games development. The purpose of this paper was to be able not only discuss these techniques but to create a space to be able to collect metrics and thoroughly analyse these effects on median frame time, upper quartile and lower quartile. This experimental workspace was created in Unity.

Gameshell - Software Architecture for Games

For this module I was given a stripped down game engine in which I was tasked with developing this game engine out with level management functionality. This module was of great interest to me as it taught a multitude of concepts and allowed me to put this into practice. creating and understanding a game engine from scratch made me understand the importance of encapsulation and designing software with decoupled hierarchy. This module was focused upon C++.

Pier Scene - Computer Animation

Using Three.js I was tasked to create a scene based on the techniques of graphics rendering and 3D modelling. To showcase my abilities in these areas I decided to create a scene consisting of a pier. The choice of this scene allowed for the display in my ability to create 3D models through modelling and geometry deformation with lighting, shadows and shading. This also allowed me to use ambient occlusion and roughness maps to create 3D effects on 2D textures. As an extra showcase of what I had learned during this module I made the decision to animate the ocean plane to have a wave effect which was a difficult challenge but based on the knowledge I had at the time, I was happy with the end result.