Games

A selection of games and concepts that I have created or contributed in.

Help Scooby-doo & the gang save crystal cove from monsters escaping the museum.

Leading development of this upcoming tower defense free to play mobile browser game.
Championing the creative vision for the game, ensuring it remains true to its roots throughout development.
Creating multiple mechanics/systems working holistically and consistently with the game’s vision and pillars.
Collaborating with programmers, artists, producers, QA, and other roles within Kuato Studios and externally to ensure a multifaceted approach to the project’s design factoring the needs of all areas of development.
Creating and maintaining vision and technical design documentation for reference and briefing, including proof-of-concept presentations, high level design summaries and detailed design schematics.
Balancing in-game items, gameplay difficulty, economy and its meta systems based on the high level goals of different systems in the game.
Understanding and adapting to the commercial and production goals throughout the project and designing within its parameters.

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Role: Game Designer | Platform: Mobile Browser | Duration: June 2022 – Present | Professional Role

a suite of tools designed to teach children through their favourite marvel heros.

Building playable experiences in line with story briefs provided by design lead.
Identifying and finding solutions for areas of friction in story building and collaborating with other disciplines to achieve solutions within tool limitations.
Level designing and camera placements to highlight tool strengths.
Implementing animations for each character rig via animator.
Creating and implementing prefabs within data files in Unity for use within the Story Playback tool.

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a suite of tools designed to teach children the fundamentals of storytelling.

Analysing and identifying areas of friction in the earlier version of Story Maker as part of the R&D team.
Developing and maintaining an in-depth document detailing feature improvements and suggesting new features, with a focus on simplicity, scalability, usability and reliability.
Communicating ideas, intent, and constraints to both technical and non-technical team members.
Collaborating with lead developer to reach feature implementation solutions within set deadlines and achieve story design vision.
Identifying required assets to achieve story vision.
Creating and implementing prefabs within data files in Unity for use within the Story Playback tool.
Collaborating with animator to achieve desired character poses for use within stories.
Implementing animations for each character rig via animator.
Using Story Maker to design playable experiences in line with briefs and stories provided by design team and design lead.

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A VOICE RECOGNITION conflict resolution DIALOGUE SYSTEM for children.

Crafting a range of storylines – from high-level arcs to particular plotlines and scene descriptions.
Writing dialogue and descriptive texts to match character personality and scene requirements.
Designing, improving and implementing dialogues to make the characters sound and feel alive.
In-game implementation of audios and recordings for each scene using in-house custom tools.
Set dressing and implementation using in-house tool.
Liaising with lead to define scenario and dialogue technical requirements and guidelines for level progression, in line with current national curriculum for each age group.

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An open world with a range of educational games for kids to explore.

Collaborating with design team to create a feature list and define the design pillars for all platform games, in line with market research and the national curriculum.
Exploring several game concepts in line with the defined feature list.
Brainstorming and creating pitches that articulate how these concepts uphold the game’s design pillars and drive the desired player educational development.
Prototyping concepts to find the fun.

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drop in drop out co-op party game feature list and concepting.

Collaborating with lead to create a feature list and map, to be used as a baseline for all party game concepts.
Concepting several ideas that define and build on core mechanics, in line with feature list and scope.
Pitching a range of concepts to design team and management.

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Role: Game Designer | Concepting | Duration: August 2022 – Present | Professional Role

Play as an elite spy in this upcoming VR assault course game.

Integrating art and code being created across whole game.
Marking up game objects within game as part of integration.
Writing C# scripts for selected prototype ideas.
Paper and digital prototyping variants for existing and new gameplay mechanics.
Liaising with leads to prioritise new content based on scope and finessing existing content.
Using project-specific tools to greybox layouts and mechanics in line with briefs provided by senior designer.
3D Level creation & balancing.
Brainstorming and pitching design ideas to team in line with briefs provided by senior designer.
Helping to improve management tools by highlighting areas of inefficiency and suggesting improvements.
Implementing gameplay using Udon Node Graphs, tweaking where relevant.
Using in-house tools to integrate gameplay.
Creating documentation for new design decisions and implementation guides in wiki.
Working remotely with the team and other disciplines.
Regular QA and playtesting, including bug report and assigning bugs to relevant discipline on HacknPlan.
Creating tasks, time logging in HacknPlan.

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On-the-fly character switching puzzles exploring father-daughter bond.

We’re OK is a story-heavy puzzle platformer where the player can weaken or mend a broken father-daughter bond by completing or skipping puzzle segments.
All assets were created by me (except music & SFX).
Design: gameplay and balanced levels, 3 camera viewports using Cinemachine.
UI Design: splash screen, start menu, in-game menu, narration system, win/lose screens.
Narration Design: exploring a father-daughter bond in a backdrop of losing a terminally sick family member.
C# Scripting: movements, UI updates using triggers, using playerPrefs, character toggle system
2D Art: characters, environment, narration bubbles

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What if Coldplay’s “Fix You” song was about missing children?

Mr & Mrs Pie is an upcoming story-heavy platformer where the player follows a couple looking for their missing child.
Being made in collaboration with Missing People.
Designing gameplay, levels, storyline and UI.
2D Art: characters and environment.
UI Design & Programming : Start menu, in-game menu.
Animations: frame animations, environment animations.
C# Scripting: movements, UI updates using triggers, collectables.
Camera scripting and dampening.
Released prototype.
Contacting players for initial playtesting.
Sharing development progress on social media.

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A jungle-themed 3D platformer MOD made with Unity LEGO Microgame.

Added event triggers and gameflow logic using behaviour LEGO bricks
Assembled LEGO bricks to make 3D models using Bricklink Studio 2.0
Added occlusions culling, skybox, particle effects
Level design: reimagining new gameplay ideas using existing code, reusing assets to create different environments, strategically placing props to guide player through game
Narration design with various side characters
Playtesting

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“Knives Out”, but it’s cats.

Worked in a remote team
2D Character art (including expressions, environment and game logo)
Designing clues and how it would be implemented in storyline
Designed moodboard
Created itch.io page
Playtesting

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pUT PIECES TOGETHER TO MAKE BOXES AND THEN SMASH THEM.

Approached developer of game to playtest after seeing it on LinkedIn.
Playtested game and wrote review report.

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