Games

• Worked on visual behaviour tree authoring system

• Worked on visual behaviour tree authoring system

• Authored enemy behaviours

Thaumistry: In Charm's Way 

Bob Bates, 2017 · interactive fiction · TADS

QA
website – Steam

Borderlands Echovision Live

Massive interactive live event (MILE)—streamed 3D narrative game in which the audience votes on story choices) set in the Borderlands universe · Unreal Engine 4 and 5

AI Tools Developer/Technical Narrative Designer (via Kythera AI)

• Assisted in design of bespoke UE4/5 tools for customisable NPC spawning and behaviours

• Designed and implemented ambient NPC behaviours, including modifications to levels to support spawning and behaviour systems

• Placing animations and sounds to add life and characterisation to all characters in Ink-scripted dialogue scenes

• Built on the Draculaland engine, with improved design adding support for graphical elements and music

• Complex narrative structure with separate 'cases' which can run sequentially or simultaneously, with interdependent narrative pathways leading to multiple endings

• Winner of IFComp; shortlisted for six Xyzzy Awards (Best Game, Best Puzzles, Best Individual Puzzle [sneaking through the house], Best Implementation, Best Use of Innovation, Best Use of Multimedia)

• Reviews/press: Rock Paper Shotgun, Giant Bomb

• Shortlisted for four Xyzzy Awards (Best Setting, Best Puzzles, Best Implementation, Best Use of Innovation)

• Implemented a new, mobile-friendly 'parser-like' hybrid point-and-click engine

• Showcased at the Wordplay narrative games festival at the British Library

• Review: PC Gamer

• Built on the Draculaland/Detectiveland engine, adding support for better presentation of longer prose

• Revised parser engine, incorporating improvements from my hybrid engine

• Game designed for replayability, with autonomous NPCs who interact with the game world and each other

• 2nd place in ParserComp

• Shortlisted for two Xyzzy Awards (Best Puzzles, Best Individual NPC [the skeleton])

• Co-winner of the Spring Thing interactive fiction festival

• Built on the engine used for Hamlet, adding better support for NPCs

• Shortlisted for two Xyzzy Awards (Best NPCs, Best Individual NPC [the butler])

• Review: Jay Is Games

• Includes complex NPCs, multiple puzzle solutions, narrative pathways and endings

• Implemented a smooth browser-based parser engine

• Reviews/press: Guardian, Channel 4, Scotsman, Polygon

Homicidal Robots, Inc.

2018 · 2D emergent puzzle · JavaScript

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Zookoban

2020· 2D puzzle · JavaScript

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Block Pushing Puzzle Game But You Can Time Travel

2020 · puzzle · JavaScript

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• Contributed code for monsters and gameplay

• Contributed artwork (yes, it has some)

• Game design and level design

• Contributed artwork