Portfolio

Throughout the Computer Games Development Course, I have worked on many projects. I have collated what I believe to be the projects that best describe me as a developer.

Please feel free to browse these projects and play them!

Zombie First Person Shooter

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Rage Room VR

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OOPS:Object-Oriented Problems

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Winds Of Death

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Deep Space Outlaw

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Breakout

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Rock Paper Scissors Game

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Zombie First Person Shooter

Created in my 4th year of University, as part of my Honours project research - an investigation into the effect of flow and immersion on time perception in first-person shooters. Zombie First Person Shooter was developed over the course of 11 - 12 weeks.

The genre of the game is a First-Person Shooter. I chose to do a First-Person shooter because for the purpose of this study having distractions of a say Role Playing Game (RPG) would pull the attention of the player away from the research area. This allows the user to pay greater attention to their surroundings while still taking their time to investigate and take everything in. The game's intended audience is anyone aged 16 and over. To be on the side of caution, I decided to make it 16+. As I don't want to terrify people as they play the game since strange things will happen in the landscapes. This manner, individuals may play the game without encountering any problems.

The game is set within a sci-fi atmosphere, I chose to include a forest environment in the player's backdrop to give the player a real-life feeling within the game. The objective of the game is that the player needs to survive for as long as possible without dying

To make this game, I used Unity Engine and Visual Studio 2019 as the development environment. The main programming languages will be C#.

In the game’s design and development stage, flow and immersion are important factors to take into contemplation to create player engagement. I will look at how this style of game will accommodate the aims of the dissertation. Below is a list of fundamentals that will impact and affect the flow and immersion in the game.

• Rewards: Intrinsically rewards such as gaining experience and cash are constantly obtained by the player as real and instant rewards.


• Clear goals: The player has clear goals, and they know what to achieve. The game is an endless survival game. Zombies will be getting faster and stronger; the player will be gaining experience and cash constantly. This element is important for player progression through the game.


• Loss of consciousness: The flow works well in this game as the player doesn’t have to concentrate on what they’re doing to achieve an action. The state of the player is to combine action and awareness.


• Loss of sense of time: The player is hooked by the activities that they’re doing such as upgrading their health or weapons, and they don’t realise the passing of time while they’re doing it.


• Direct and immediate feedback: The player is guided by the direct feedback of the game, and they know what they need to do to succeed.


• The balance between player skills and challenge: The level of the game is neither too easy nor too difficult. The difficulty of the game is constantly adapted to the player’s skill.


• The player controls the situation and the activity: The player needs to survive for as long as possible to beat the challenge. As it is an endless survival game, the objective for the player is to beat their previous best score.

Rage Room VR

Created as part of my Immersive Technologies module in my 4th year of University, Rage Room VR was developed over the course of 11 - 12 weeks.

Rage Room VR is an immersive and exciting arcade game where the player can break various objects as a means of testing their capabilities and skills. When the player is ready to play, they can choose to start the rage room experience and score points for each item or object they break. Once the player has enough points, they can unlock new environments, items, and objects throughout the game.

The game that the team will be developing is a 3D arcade virtual reality game. The game we will be designing is a virtual reality game rage room it will encompass a single modern room with standard objects for destruction, including hammers, bats, and other items. The player is explained the rules of the rage room experience and shown some example objects that they may break objects before starting as a means of testing their capabilities. When the user is ready, they can choose to start the rage room experience.

The game will be called “Rage Room VR” and the overseer in the game will notice that the player is breaking objects with a lot of aggression and speed, prompting them to comment on the player’s assumed frustration with something. Over the course of the experience, the overseer talks to the player about ways to manage stress and frustration. This won’t interrupt the core experience but instead give the player some good for thought while they carry out the less mentally demanding task of repeatedly breaking objects.

To make this game, we will be using Unity version 2020.3.26 and the Android SDK, NDK build support tools and the OpenJDK build support tools modules as the development environment. The main programming language used to develop this game will be C#.

OOPs: Object-Oriented Problems

Created as part of my Serious Games Development module in my 4th year of University, OOPs: Object-Oriented Problems was developed over the course of 11 - 12 weeks.

This game will be designed to educate students about Object-Oriented Programming and to gain a basic understanding of what the user may already know about OOP. The game will be fun and interactive for the player to follow in order to gain an immersive experience. The game is set within a museum environment to give the player a real-life feeling within the game

OOPs: Object-Oriented Problems is a 3D First Person Single Player game to teach and educate students learning about coding or to gain knowledge, the game will be fun and interactive for the player to follow in order to gain immersion through the experience.

To make this game, we will be using Unity Engine and Visual Studio 2019 as the development environment. The main programming languages will be C#.

The objective of this project is to create a game to help users gain knowledge and revise upon Object Oriented Programming. By the conclusion of the game, the players will be able to:

• To understand the core concepts of object-oriented programming
• Identify and describe the four pillars of object-oriented programming
• Teach users how to define various object-oriented programming concepts
• To develop a knowledge of useful object-oriented programming techniques
• To develop understanding of writing object-oriented programs that combine functions and data

Winds Of Death

Created as part of a web-game development module in my 4th year of University, Winds Of Death was developed over the course of 11 - 12 weeks.

We chose to design Winds Of Death as a 2-D co-op top-down zombie shooter, a subgenre that we think is very attractive for our desired audience. The games we got ideas from were: Boxhead: The Zombie Wars, Zombies Ate My Pizza, Dead Estate and Mecha Team Maverick.

Winds of death is a top-down shooter style game, which will be available on our website once we have finished the development of the game. The core audience for this game would be young adults and teenagers. We chose this audience as they are the ones most seen to play shooter games.

To make this game, we will be using WebStorm from JetBrains and Phaser Editor 1.5.4 as a development environment. The game will be made with the framework Phaser version 3.55.2 "Ichika", and the main programming language will be JavaScript.

The goal of the game is to kill as many zombies as possible while progressing through a series of linear levels. There will be opportunities to use different guns throughout the levels to aid player progress.

Deep Space Outlaw

Created as part of a web-game development module in my 3rd year of University, Deep Space Outlaw was developed over the course of 11 - 12 weeks.

Far, far away from home and out of luck Norman Bates is on the run for several crimes by the intergalactic government. He has a killer to tail, debit to pay and more trouble heading his way. The intergalactic government takes place in a greasy, blue collar world of outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves.

The goal of the game is to destroy as many outlaws, truckers, cops and thieves as possible without getting killed. When the player shoots a space cop or a thief, they get 10 points added onto their score, while shooting an asteroid is 5 points. The spaceship is controlled by moving the arrow keys up, down, right, and left to move as desired. To shoot the lasers at the space cops, thieves or asteroids the press the spacebar on the keyboard.

Breakout

Breakout begins with four rows of bricks, with each row being a different colour. The colour order from the bottom up is yellow, green, orange and red. Using a single ball, the player must knock down as many bricks as possible by using the walls and/or the paddle below to hit the ball against the bricks and eliminate them.
It has only two possible outcomes a win or a loss for the player.

Rock Paper Scissors Game

Created in my free time. Rock, Paper and Scissors was made in one day.

Rock, Paper, Scissors is a simple fun game in which both the players have to choose over Rock, Paper or Scissors.

It has only three possible outcomes a draw, or a win for one player and a loss for the other player.