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Hey there, I'm a game dev currently working at Neon Play designing and developing hyper-casual games! I'm also a final year student at the University of Gloucestershire!

As a programmer who loves working on gameplay mechanics the most. Creating hyper-casual games is currently a perfect fit for me as I get to design and implement new and intresting mechanics each and every week.

When I do have any spare time between work and uni, you can usually find me creating couch co-op style party games.


Languages

  • C#
  • C++

Platforms

  • iOS
  • Android
  • Desktop

Key Skills

  • Version Control
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Monetisation
  • Game Economy Balancing

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Roller Splat

Every month or so at Neon Play we do a games jam where each person in the studio will spend 8 hours designing or developing a game idea or concept. For each of these games jams I always have a few ideas floating around in my head however, Roller Splat was a thought that popped into my head during the last 10 minutes of my bus Ride into work.
From that small little spark the game has grown completley past all expectations that I or anyone else at the studio had for the game. I don't think the 30 million downloads and being number one in over 70 countries will ever truly sink in!

After just a few days I was able to polish the game up and it was soft launched on the iOS app store and from there the incremental updates along the way really pushed it to the point where Voodoo chose to publish the game. Beacuse I was at university part time and the momentum needed to keep Roller Splat going was growing, the project was handed over to another developer at Neon Play and from here I was able to cleary see a lot of the mistakes I had made and what I could of done differently to really help improve the project. For example a lot of the code used was still quite hacky from the original games-jam and whilst making levels wasn't to clunky, the current system we have is far superior to what I originally developed.

I have been creating hyper-casual games for over a year and Roller Splat was a project where I felt like I was able to combine all that I had learned both about designing and developing these games. With this project I felt like I was able to truly innovate in the hyper-casual market. Even staff at Voodoo admitted they never expected a hyper-casual / puzzle game could work!

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Soccer Kick


Developing Hyper-Casual games at Neon Play is usually a solo endeavour however, for this project I was created this project with another developer and during the peak of the projects development, eventually the entire art team was also Involved!

My co-developer for this project was the very same person that when I first started working at Neon Play, that I would annoy with all of my dumb questions whether they were programming related or even about how to build a game to an iPhone as got to grips with my first mobile devlopment job!

For the project we split the tasks in half with my self worrying about the "mini-game" and them the "meta-game". So in short I was responsible for the player interaction, ball physics and infinitely loading environment. I also undertook the task of managing the in-game economy and difficulty balancing.

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Fright Light


This is another game that was born out of an 8 hour long games jam at Neon Play. For this game I worked alongside an artist to both design and create the game

For us a big part of the project became about adding a lot of character to the player avatar (something rarely seen in the market) to reflect his current situation wether he be safe, sneaking or in danger. Working alongside an artist for this project throughout its life time, I feel was incredibly valuable as it was a constantly creative environment as we bounced ideas of each other throughout.

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Bridge Jumper


This is the very first hyper-casual game I created at Neon Play. This was where I first got to grips with a lot of both programming principles and market knowledge necessary for hyper-casual games. Working alongside the same artist that was mentioned in the Fright Light post, even to this day I am very happy with both the look and feel of the game

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Festival Thrashers



Festival thrashers is a game that both myself and a handful of others created as a part of our final year project. As one of two programmers I was responsible for both the minigame and player behaviours scripting along with other responsabilities such as UI and camera animations.

Please feel free to check out all of the wonderfull people who worked on this project!


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Split Decision


This project was completed at Brains Eden during a 48 hour long games jam. Given the theme of "give and take" (pun absolutley intended) we quickly decided upon the concept of two characters navigating their way through puzzles connected via a bungee-cord where they would both "give and take" slack of the rope to naviagte obstacles and solve puzzles.

In our small team of University of Gloucestershire students. I was responsible for the tasks of both scripting the player movement and puzzles featured in the level. I also handled a lot of the team cordination through git as most of our team did not have prior expierence with git version control

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Child


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Freedom Simulator


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Oi Frog!


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Stickers


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Tiny Tanks


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Particle System


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