Wolf & Void

My concept revolved around decompression sickness and a diver in debt. I ended up creating quite a cool aesthetic which I spent a lot of time on, something that unfortunately doesn’t happen too often.

I’ve decided to keep working on it to improve some things and add others that I didn’t have time to during the jam.

My three semesters with Studio G, which at the time was a pilot project, was both rewarding and hard work. My role was to help the participants find a passion which could potentially turn into a career over the course of the program. I had the opportunity to work with some amazing people, both participants and mentors alike.

Initially I was asked by Griffith University to lead a small team of students in the continued development of this game. As the project grew and the students graduated the decision was made that I would alone undertake the development of the game. I spent a few hours each week for about a year on this project and developed a good working relation with my clients. Some of my tasks were to:

Finish development of last and final game

Fix bugs throughout all games

Create a global menu system (with level selection, high scores, etc)

Improve gameplay and balance

In Rainbro you have to help raindrops achieve the highest honor and greatest glory: to become part of a rainbow. Millions of raindrops pursue this dream but most of them fail to understand the nature of the delicate phenomenon. Therefor you must head out with your Rainbro 3000 and aid them on their journey!

In an attempt to try and learn Game Maker Studio I made this little top down adventure game with Nejdet Yilmaz. It was a massive undertaking and I can recall spending so much time handling assets, rather than actually coding, balancing, polishing or improving the gameplay. It was way to ambitious and ended up half baked, even some of NJ’s awesome pixel art didn’t get put into the game before the jam ended.

Many valuable lessons game out of this game such as scope, time management, process and to not get blindsided by new tools.

I worked on Orbit full time for about a month during 2012 and the game was officially released in 2013. My primary tasks were missions, the mission progression system and fixing bugs in the main game.

To play it and more information visit: http://orbit.org.au

Bubble & Brew was an experimental project which was built over 6 months in collaboration with The Edge, SLQ. We released it for iOS 6 in July 2013 but have since taken it down.

One of my first “original” games. I had a blast trying to learn how to code while creating this game which drew the attention of my class mates. Awesome colors and geometric shapes was all I needed!