Oliver Davis: Portfolio

Hey ya’ll! I finally finished uploading all my projects to a personal portfolio site. It contains the works seen here in a very nice professional format. As everything else, I’ll be improving it over the months to come and everything on there will also be posted here. If you’d like to reach out feel free to message me here or through the gmail on my page.

(art by Cara Bain,from her website)

Ashore is a minimalist game about soul searching during a dream sequence. Made using Bitsy, this project was my first foray into the engine and using html to make a game. The gameplay is an object finding adventure game where you have to locate items important to the souls that you meet in order to help them move to the next world. Just like the rest of these games, I hope to continue to update it using Bitsy in the future.

(picture from Chain Store Age article)

This is a game about stress. This is a game about frustration. This a game about burnout with corporate entry level jobs. Made in Gamemaker 2, this game was for my midterm for my GameStudio 1 class and features a short experience inspired by my time working at Home Depot. In this game you are just a worker...trying to get the breakroom...on time. Good luck.

(artist for image unknown, via pinterest page from hearsum)

Over the Moon is a final  project, made in Gamemaker 2 for my Game Studio 1 class! The genre of the game was decided by rolling a roulette wheel 3 times and having to make a game according to the adjectives and nouns that you got. Gothic Dating Simulator with Robots was the genre I received so I made a game about having to be intimate with the moon in order to save the world! To help you along the way, a robot sidekick helps you decipher Lunalese. 

(art from Bella Deese, via Wallpaper Up page)

Midnight Maintenance is an thriller narrative game made in Unity, it was the final project for my game studio 2 class. This game is inspired by Terminator and the incredibly cool game title “Routine” from Lunar Software. You take control of a character just weathering out another day in their grueling robotic maintenance job, but this day is different. The warehouse you’ve been called to explore possesses much more than the meets the eyes and as you explore the facility you stumble on dark secrets that must be escaped before they claim your life! This game will be iterated on in the coming months and years, I’ll post the new iterations as they come.

(art by Heidi Malott, via her webpage)

Call your mom is a Twine based adventure game made for my interactive Fiction class. This game is inspired by slice of life anime and indie film as well as experiences growing up in Austin. This project is my first foray into using state tracking to follow player choices and give them meaning. It went surprisingly well and as such this fiction piece is the first draft of a planned trilogy of small chapters that make use of Twine’s tools in new ways.

(art by Mark Wagner, from Escape into Life)

Meep Morps is an analogue, asymmetric strategy game about the art industry! This game needs 3 players to play, every player takes a one of 3 unique roles: Artist, Collector, And Curator. Each turn the artist has to create actual art piece ( made with whatever is handy) and try selling it to the Curator who can then sell it to the collector. Every turn there are two trend cards that can be manipulated but must be followed. The goal for this game is for players to develop an understanding of how art’s perceived value is constructed and how it becomes marketable. This game is also a prototype that has not been playtested, updated versions will be uploaded as time goes on.