What I can't share yet
A game with SMG Studio
An ambitious solo project
Game Developer
Where?
How?
Team?
Crows Crows Crows, based in Berlin. I worked remotely during COVID and visited the incredibly talented people behind this project when I could.
What is it?
The Stanley Parable is a BAFTA award winning first person adventure game. When a simple-minded individual named Stanley discovers that the co-workers in his office have mysteriously vanished, he sets off to find answers. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will make a choice, and you will have your choices taken from you. The game will end, the game will never end. Contradiction follows contradiction, the rules of how games should work are broken, then broken again. You are not here to win. The Stanley Parable is a game that plays you.
Developer & Designer
Where?
How?
Team?
Not quite! It's just me toiling away in Unity, however, development is supported by an incredible community on Twitch lead by Cody Hargreaves, who commissions members to contribute art and data.
What is it?
A deathly experience of the Excessive Profanity broadcast.
Executioners are on the hunt to amass a headcount of trolls by nominating them for execution. All executed are forever immortalised with their last words in this virtual graveyard.
How was it made?
Built in Unity3D, I used TwitchLib for documented Twitch API's, WebSockets for everything else. HDRP and Cinemachine for rendering and sequencing. Google Apps API for no-fuss data and configuration management.
Developer & UX Designer
Where?
How?
Team?
Just a few of us in a small studio within Melbourne lead by Ken Wong.
What is it?
A mindful design game, about humans and their space.
How was it made?
Built in Unity3D with the best practices championed by an excellent technical lead, Addressable Assets for tight memory management, ReWired for input management, Objective-C for deep OS services integration and device features (such as Apple's Haptic Engine), Figma for prototyping the User Experience, as well as bunch of elbow grease to simultaneously launch on console, mobile and desktop platforms.
Developer & Designer
Where?
How?
Team?
Just an incredible artist and I.
This was the first game I self published!
What is it?
A novel arcade treasure hunting mobile game. Traverse the ocean with original music, hundreds of levels, power-ups and enemies.
Featured by the Apple in the 2019 App Store selections
How was it made?
Built atop of Unity3D, I used Flatbuffers for resilient data serialisation, Native Objective-C for utilisation of device specific features, UGUI for User Interface scripting, TexturePacker for efficient sprite sheets and memory management, Post Processing v2 for visual fidelity, Google Sheets API for real-time localisation patching and configuration management. I heavily extended the Unity Editor so we were able to quickly iterate levels and build out a width breadth of content.
Essentially,
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Graduated
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Neighbourhood Game and Watch
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Birdball
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Sneaky Paws
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Dr. Langeskov
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Within VR
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Sagmeister & Walsh
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Accounting VR
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EAT
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Calamari Kid
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Apple Arcade
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Mountains Studio
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The Stanely Parable: Ultra Deluxe
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Excessive Profanity
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SMG
for over a decade
I've been creating commercial products, helping teams bring their ideas to life.
Alternatively
Want to be friends?
These are some of my interests
- Bouldering and rock climbing
- Music Production with Ableton with too many Teenage Engineering synths
- Photography with my XT5 56MM 1.2f w/ ProMist 1/4
- Cooking vegetarian recipes, growing oyster mushrooms and brewing kombucha
- Building electronics, such as the keyboard i'm currently using to type this!
- Playing boardgames and LARPs
- Ceramics
- Excitedly starting a new project
About this website
Team?
Nope- this is a solo project; no templates, Squarespace, or Webflow.
Why like this?
I could just upload a plain HTML document. However, this is a testament to my creative and technical ability at the time of creation.
How was it made?
I designed my head and modelled it with ZDog, which means its made from a collection of 2D Shapes and vectors! Anime / ScrollReveal help with the animations and timing of the reveals. SASS helps me construct the CSS, as without it, it would become pretty chaotic with all the states / classes. I host on a private Ubuntu VPS which I set up myself as well.
Wait, isn't there more?
yes
Lead Developer
Where?
How?
Team?
Berlin based Crows Crows Crows in collaboration with writer Jack De Quidt, composer Grant Kirkhope, and voice actor Simon Amstell.
What is it?
An exciting heist game! Or a really funny, clever game?
Check it out, it's free on both PC and macOS.
How was it made?
With Unity3D and an architecture built on UnityEvents for dispatching level events, Probuilder for level design, Mechanim for animating props, DOTween and UGUI for UI development, UFPS for the Camera Controller, SteamWorks for platform integration
iOS Developer
Where?
How?
Team?
L.A based WITHIN & Twisted Oak Studios
What is it?
Seen as one of the best Google Cardboards experiences, it is an augmented reality video player for VR films; showcasing content from Sundance Films, The New York Times, and documentaries from the U.N. Available on every platform imaginable.
How was it made?
A heavy mix of native and Unity3D development made for an impressive experience on a wide range of iPhones. Google Cardboard was utilised for the headset, WebSockets for data synchronisation, UGUI for UI development, and the Accelerometer & Gyroscope synced the viewfinder to a Ultra HD 360 Video Feed
AR and Gameplay Developer
Where?
How?
Team?
A small team of people with ambitions beyond belief, and a story you're going to want to sit down for.
What is it?
This project was my darkest experience of the Game Industry. Even so, we built an augmented reality photography experience, set in locations across the world, playable on console, mobile and desktop.
How was it made?
Unity3D as the engine, ARKit for wild UFO hunting, ReWired for input management, a custom rendering pipeline for incredible visual fidelity and Xcode for profiling.
Developer & Designer
Where?
How?
Team?
With the lovely Callum Bowen (known for Lonely Planet, Snipperclips) and Cocefi (Drawn to Life, amongst so many more!)
What is it?
A local multiplayer mobile game where players team up to collect loot scattered around a procedurally generated town. Unbeknownst to the rest, one player is secretly given control of the security team and is silently working to foil the heist from within.
Developer & Designer
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How?
Team?
Completely solo! Illustration, design, programming and sound design - all me.
What is it?
An educational typing, comedy game. Coming soon to a PC and tablet near you.
How was it made?
Built in Unity3D, I used the Universal Render Pipeline to maximise platform compatibility, Inverse Kinematics for procedural animations, leveraged OS Input drivers for reading deep keyboard events, Inkle for storytelling and game-flow, Procreate for illustration, SteamWorks for platform integration, and VADAR Sentiment Analysis in tandem with my lexical parser for understanding a player content
VR Developer
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How?
Team?
Berlin based, Crows Crows Crows in collaboration with Justin Roiland. Featuring guests such as Rich Fulcher, Cassie Steele, Reggie Watts, Dan Harmon and many more!
What is it?
The Webby 2019 award winning virtual reality horror nightmare comedy game.
Available on Oculus, Playstation VR and SteamVR.
How was it made?
Utilising Unity3D, OVR and NewtonVR for gameplay interactions; UGUI for UI development, FaceFX for lip syncing to improvisational dialogue, a complicated web of UnityEvents for level logic, and a whole heap of oat cappuccinos.
Developer & Designer
Where?
How?
Team?
Berlin based, Crows Crows Crows.
What is it?
Post apocalyptic eating simulator, virtually feeding over 1 million people on both iOS and Android.
How was it made?
Built in 3 days using Unity3D, Post Processing v2 for visual fidelity, Brownian Algorithms for animations, Scriptable Objects for gameplay data