I'm working with some friends from Sumo on a fun party game to mess around with your friends. One player plays as a UFO, and the rest play as cows who try not to be abducted!
It's in Unreal Engine, and I'm working on getting it networking smoothly. Will have more to share soon!
I wanted a bluetooth receiver to play music on my amp, and I thought why buy one when I've get a perfectly good Raspberry Pi sitting around. I initially followed blogposts of other people doing similar stuff
- namely this one - which got the basics
working, but I'm now hooking up other features, including status LEDs, a web server to control it over LAN, and auto-playing
from a USB disc reader so I can play CDs with it.
Currently using bluez-alsa and a custom python script using D-Bus.
As a part of a prototype for an indie game project, I'm working in Unreal on a round structure system for a tactics game, aiming to be a hybrid between turn-based and real-time strategy systems.
Enemies all take their turns simultaneously, but have to wait their turn to perform actions, allowing the camera to
frame the action without keeping the player waiting.
A web app built with Typescript and Preact. Still a work in progress, but aims to be a fully featured character sheet for me and my friend's D&D 5e games. After that, I'm hoping to make the layout data-driven
enough to be easily adapted to whatever TTRPG we want to play.
Includes a similar dice roll parser as the Rust one I wrote a while back, but instead of doing the
Typescript implementation all over again, I used ohm-js to write a
parser grammer.
A browser extension for me and my friends using Roll20. There's a feature to mark tokens with 0-9 using your keyboard, but I noticed using the browser console to put any message you want works just fine,
so I made a browser extension to work with that.
My first time making a browser extension, I expected it to be fiddly and it kinda was, but I had fun anyway.
A authentication server written in Rust, to allow me to place otherwise unauthenticated NGINX services behind a Discord login. Used so I can host something and have it accessable to my friends without them needing to fiddle around with HTTP basic auth.
Rust's oauth2 package has great documentation - was dead easy to get things up and running.
After leaving university, I returned to Sumo Sheffield to work as a junior programmer, moving to a programmer position later the next year.
For my dissertation, designed and developed a VR teaching tool for the Royal School of Artillery, for which I received a Commander’s Commendation.
During my final year at university, I worked with 14 other developers on a motion-tracked 4 player VR project.
In between my second and third years at university, I joined Sumo Sheffield as a placement programmer working on an unannounced title.
A DnD dice syntax parser and interpreter à la Roll20, written in Rust.
I've written hackish parsers before, but after learning about the Nom library I decided to have a go
at doing it "properly".
Also doubling as my first sizeable project in Rust, I found using Nom to lex the input and parse into a syntax tree to be really satisfying to implement.
You can find a quick and dirty wasm implementation here.
A model loader and lighting engine as another OpenGL exercise.
I learned how to work with Assimp to
read 3D model files, and how to implement the Phong reflection model using
multiple lights.
I got started with Powershell, using a script as a build system.
This build system turned out to be more of a curse than a blessing, a lesson in how I should probably use actual build systems for most cases!
A system to host a private Minecraft server which shuts down when no-one is online to save money. Users can log into a website to turn the server back
on again when they want to play.
Made using Flask and AWS's API. A very fun project to make, where I learned a lot
about Linux services and how to Unix-like programs communicate with each other.
AWS's pricing structure has changed since I made this, making this project no longer viable.
I still learned a ton from it!
For my uni's GPROG programming unit, I made a barebones MTG engine in C#. I made it a standalone library, so it could theoretically be slotted into Unity or other C# systems.
To test it, I made another C# program to host the programs state over HTTP, so it could be processed
by Javascript for a simple web viewer.
A single-stick shooter where your ship's systems get hacked.
Made over a weekend for the 2020 Game Maker's Toolkit games jam.
An infinite runner spaceship game as an OpenGL exercise. This is my first fully functional OpenGL game, where I
experimented with shaders and chunk loading.
Making games "the hard way" has been really fun and interesting,
strengthening my understanding of the underlying systems in
game engines.
A quick exercise in fragment shaders in OpenGL.
I've recently been getting to grips with OpenGL through
this
tutorial - this is my first project from that which
I'm fairly proud of. I'm very excited to work with shaders
some more in the future!
I built an online quest manager for the DND group I am a part of. Using Flask and Bootstrap with a Redis database,
it allows people to create, join and manage quests.
I also experimented with Discord bots, setting up automated
announcements and commands.
Made in a team of 4 over 3 weeks, I got to grips with Unity's prefab system to create a ship designer. I really enjoyed making
this - with the little logical challenges involved with making
sure each configuration is valid, bringing the ship data from
scene to scene, and creating a user interface intuitive enough to make
ship building easy.
While playing, individual ship components can get damaged and broken,
affecting how your ship handles.
Made in a team of 4 over a week, I experimented with 2D lighting systems to create a tense atmosphere. I found it worked very well given the limited timeframe we had.
The first game I made at university! We were given a week to make a game with a single control. I experimented with rigidbody physics in Godot, making a 2D sandbox which you can grapple around using your mouse.
Using Flask and Bootstrap, I built an online spellbook for the DND group I am a part of. As more homebrew spells were added the static pages we were using became increasingly unwieldy. This site has filters making finding spells a lot easier.
After reading about min-max strategies in AI, I tried out making my own implementation with a Chess AI in Python. It worked better than I expected, building a decision tree and looking several moves ahead. It can beat me, although admittedly I'm not very good at chess.
A clone of one of my favourite games made in the TIC-80 fantasy console. It was really fun to make, lots of tricky geometric challenges with the TIC-80's limited drawing commands. I really want to come back to this project and flesh it out more since there's a lot I've learned since this projects, especially after working with similar engines like Love2D.