Boring life update 30/5/2017
I’ve been slacking a bit lately when it comes to working on any of my personal projects, but it’s OK, I’ve got some excuses.
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CanaFez – Noisy neighbours
This is something that’s been in the current build for a little while now but I thought I’d make a full post here since, well, I’ve been a bit neglectful in regards to posting updates / features about CanaFez on this site.
Plus it’s a good excuse as any to post some new pictures of the game. LOOK AT THESE PICTURES OF MY VIDEO GAME!
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CanaFez VR experiment
Recently I did a bit of volunteer work for the Virtual Reality World Congress and being surrounded by so much amazing VR tech and games got me thinking; Has anyone tried making a game with a retro graphics aesthetic in VR?
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CanaFez (working title)
It’s been a while since I’ve worked on a personal project outside of a game jam or university project, so I thought it high time to jump back into game development once again and try my hand at a new project… CanaFez is a blend between the excellent rooftop runner Canabalt and the world rotation mechanics from Fez.…
GBJam!
It’s been a long time since I’ve worked on any personal projects and even longer since developing a game independently, so at the start of October I entered GBJam, a Game Boy themed game jam. For this jam, participants had 10 days (October 1st – 10th) to a develop a game of any genre using only 4 colours at a resolution of 160×144.
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Big Goose (and website)
Following our success with Type Fighter, we were approached by our University to develop a number of additional arcade games for a week of cyber security awareness (organised by UWE’s IT department). Towards the end of development I took the initiative to create a website to help publicise the games we created under the name Big…
Type Fighter
Type Fighter is a jam game created by myself and a few friends over the period of a week, intended to be a fun little project for us to work on now that our final university year has concluded.
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Source mapping
Before coming to University I invested the majority of my free time creating maps for a number of source engine games including; Counter Strike: Source / Global Offensive and Team Fortress 2. Below is a short account of my time spent using the engine as well as some of the things I created.
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Twitter McGuffin game
As part of the Advanced Technologies module on my university course, we were tasked with creating a system of retrieving data from a social media API and using the data retrieved actively in a prototype game. Choosing Twitter as my social network of choice, the majority of my time with this task was spent implementing…