MA Work;
- Essay – Gameplay complexity to players must be justified
- Via examining auto-attacks in World of Warcraft tanking
- Dissertation – How can advancement systems in MMO games be categorised?
Articles;
- Essay – A study of Griefers and their activities on MMOs and MUDs
- Lecture – Types of Scripting
- Lecture – The New Games Development
- Sample rules – D20 “Andrew’s Firearms”
- Series – Building a Better RTS (introduction, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, conclusion)
- UDK Kismet Scripting – Health Regeneration
In-Progress;
Article – The Case for Visual Scripting (and other articles)
Work;
Games Designer;
I work as a Game Designer for Starlight Games.
Games Lecturer;
I work as a Online Tutor for Falmouth University on their MA Indy Game Development
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Prior Lecturing work;
I have delivered modules in game design and management for a number of Universities since 2010 as a Visiting Lecturer, including the following;
Modules I have taught include Gameplay Design and Skills, Experimental Games and Concept Development and Management as well as tutorials on such programs as Unreal 4 with Blueprint. I have also taught on community education programs such as GDLEdu.
Rebellion;
Designer / Gameplay Scripter;
Design and gameplay scripting on a number of published games;
Freelance Projects;
A sample of my work includes;
[ezcol_1half]Total Annihilation “Dark Suns” Space Total Conversion;
Playable Total Conversion including;
- Two campaigns, ten missions
- Multiplayer
- Design Document, Tools List, etc.
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[ezcol_1half_end]Starfire – 4X Board Game – 2002 onwards; Editions worked on –
- Imperial (Unified Tech Manual)
- Elite (Main Rulebook)
- Ultra (Main Rulebook)
- Cosmic (Main Rulebook, Ongoing)
- Solar (Main Rulebook, WIP)
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[ezcol_1third]Harvest Circuit
- Progression Designer
- Browser-based Tower Defence/MMO[/ezcol_1third]
[ezcol_1third]”Dark Skies” Team
- Senior Designer
- Non-traditional RTS[/ezcol_1third]
[ezcol_1third_end]Gamelab
- Concept Designer
- “Audioscape” game concept work[/ezcol_1third_end]
Other work samples are available on request.