Celebrating Video Game History!
Loopy The Alchemist A game made for the 2025 GMTK game jam Click here to play Controls: Gameplay: Dev notes: Back again for the GMTK game jam for a second time! I used the time to learn how to use Godot. I’ve been making lots of notes and feel I have a much better understanding of the engine and the …
GMTK Game Jam 2025 Read More
After many years of struggling to get back into game dev, I decided to try my hand at the GMTK Game Jam! It was perfect timing, as I had the weekend to myself, with no distractions or obligations for the next 48 hours… The theme was announced on Friday at 6pm, I was sat waiting for the YouTube premiere, the …
GMTK Game Jam 2024 Read More
Just over a week ago, I finally decided to try out GB Studio myself, after making video reviews for many games made using the engine I feel like I’ve got a good understanding of what it’s capable of, and what kind of things make a good or bad game in the engine. For my first GB Studio project, I decided …
Quantum Shift GB Dev Log #1 Read More
Some of you may know that I actually studied Game Design, first at college form 2008 – 2010, and then at University from 2010 – 2014! You wouldn’t really know it today though as I’m comfortably sitting at my desk working away on SharePoint and producing MI, it’s a far cry from what I thought I would be doing with …
The Struggle Of Getting Back Into Making Games… Read More
Mainly tried to get the score working today. I did so yay! Although it doesn’t actually do anything yet… At least it adds up how many points you have and carries over to the next level. I’ve also managed to figure out how to make the speed boost item work in both directions by using the players X speed and …
Super Donuts Dev Log #3 Read More
First screenshots of Super Donuts – Its early days but its already pretty fun to play!
Super Donuts Dev Log #2 Read MoreFor iPhone / iPad / Flash / HTML5 Platformer game starring a “super donut” The donut is controlled with the touchscreen, moving left and right, also up and down when it can stick to walls. collect powerups to navigate the levels and find the goal portal. short stages with increasingly complex or tricky levels to navigate Play with phone / …
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Plunderbuss: Lead Game Designer It was my job to design the outline for the game, along with the theme, gameplay mechanics, video editing and level plans as well as working closely with the other members of the group to ensure the project was going as planned. Below are some examples of my work in the project.
PlunderBuss (Lead Game designer Project) Read MoreAbstract: The focus of this project was to create an immersive RPG style game with a focus on interesting characters and plot while using a simple 16-bit aesthetic. The research section of the paper looks at techniques for character development and storytelling in games, by researching many different books, games and other media. The final product is a fully playable …
How and to what extent are characters and narrative essential for a player’s emotional engagement in story driven games? Read More