Portfolio

Here is what I've been working on!

Dead Earth

What is it?: A first person shooter game made with Unity 5.
Details: Dead Earth is a first person Zombie shooter game made with Unity 5 and C#. This game was made following the Dead Earth Development Series from the Game Institute. Zombies are full AI capable of seek and destroy, target relocation and reanimation.; Check out my repository here.

Real Time Strategy - UE4

What is it?: I've been playing around with the templates of the Unreal Engine 4. The default mechanics of the engine are fantastic for first person, third person and 2D games. I thought it would be a fun challenge to attempt to set up an RTS system. Free-form camera and AI player characters.

Check out my video demonstrating it working here!

Two hour first person scene - Unity 5

What is it?: I was flying from Los Angeles to Vancouver B.C. and had my work laptop with me. I decided to see if I could remember all of my 'training' and do a first person scene from memory. Didn't want to spend the $4.99 on the inflight wifi so had no examples to refer to. I did use the scripting API reference which ships with Unity because who can remember method names.... so not 100% from memory but still a good exercise!

Check out my video demonstrating it working here!

Shader Toy

What is it?: Shader toy is a website for practice and demonstration of GPU shader programs. It's a really great way to get practice and have fun with rendering and graphics techniques. I've been playing with a few programs for a while to hone my skills.
Check out my discussions of my expereince with ShaderToy here.
Here are a couple of my very first experiments!

My YouTube Channel

My YouTube channel

I have a number of fiddlings and past projects shown and described on my youtube channel. I've made videos either showing or describing them.

Here are some links for you to see!

The Welness Epidemic

Client: Dr. Phillippa Houghton
What did she need?: Dr. Phillippa Houghton is an avid medical blogger. She was looking for a clean and stylish medium for her online journal.
How did I help?: Dr. R sent me a list of medical blogs she is a fan of. She was keen to emulate the style and flow of popular sites while maintaining a her own design. We worked together over several weeks via Skype meetings to ensure the end design reflected her desires.
What did I use?: For this project I used the Jekyll static website framework. The benefit of Jekyll is it's quick and powerful development cycle which allowed me to return a working prototype rapidly. The static nature however required a supplement for the lack of a back-end. I came across the Contenful content management system. This, combined with Travis overcame the need of costly server development.

The Party on High Street

Client: The Party on High Street
What did they need?: The group needed something colorful and attractive to match their music and persona. They wanted something cheap that didn't break their already stretched budget but wit enough tid-bits to look cool and keep their fans up to date.
How did I help them?: I began by getting a feel for them as a group. Wading through their music and art gave me a great sense of what they consider important and what keeps bringing their fans back. Knowing that none of them were particularily tech-savy I built them an easy to use admin page where they can upload images, and promote upcoming gigs.
What did I use?: For this project I used Ruby on Rails to build a simple full stack system to manage and store their shows. The front end was built using vanilla javascript with Bootstrap CSS.

ThreeJS Playground

What is it?

This is an example of some of my experiments with ThreeJS. Check it out! This one is just a small first person scene with some lumber jacks and a pirate ship.

What did I use?

For this fidget I used ThreeJS.

How do I use it?

There isn't much to, but you can walk around the scene using the following keyboard controls:

Forward: W
Backward: S
Strafe Left: A
Strafe Right: D
Turn left: Q
Turn Right: E
Float Up: Z
Float Down: X