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Hey, I'm Ian! I am a Game Designer in my final year of university. I love designing and prototyping engaging mechanics and systems, especially with others. My favourite kind of games are ones with fast-paced and stylish action.

"About Me"

Click About Me at the top of the page to find out more!

GAMES

Below are the games I've made! Some of them are for university work, some professional. Some of them have links to itch pages, more information and videos. Enjoy!

Cerebral surge

Responsibilities

Core design
Designing game systems and mechanics
Creating and maintaining a Game Design Document
UI design and animations
Temporary producer
Organized usage of Jira and scrum methodology
Quality Assurance
Sole programmer

Type Of Game: Movement Shooter
Roles: Designer / Programmer
Engine: Unity C#

Team Project | Professional | Octopus 8

Team of 5

itch.io

Give the world one last middle finger while skirting between life and death using the cult's powers against them. The lower your health, the stronger and faster you become! Fight corrupted monsters across multiple trials and destroy the cult once and for all.

video

DARK ROLLS

Responsibilities

Core Design
Numeric Design
Level Design
UI Design
Creating and maintaining a Game Design Document
Creating a video pitch using Premiere Pro
Developing a prototype

Type Of Game: Soulslike x Cooking
Roles: Designer / Programmer
Engine: Unity C#

Solo Project | Competition | Search For A Star

info

itch.io

Dark Rolls is a Soulslike meets cooking game set in a cosy, gothic and hellish environment. Players can gather ingredients from defeating enemies and combine them into various recipes. Using their magical oven, they can bake these recipes to receive new powerful weapons to tackle even bigger foes.

SCRAPSHIFT - WIP

Responsibilities

Core design
Designing game systems and mechanics
Designing a complex combo-oriented combat system
Creating and maintaining a Game Design Document
Lead Programmer

itch.io

Type Of Game: Hack'N'Slash|3D Platformer
Roles: Designer / Programmer
Engine: Unity C#

Team Project | Tranzfuser 2024

Team of 5

info

A 3D hack-n-slash game (inspired by the Devil May Cry series and Platinum Games) where the player uses giant magnetic gauntlets to beat the scrap out of enemies. Set in a post-apocalyptic scrap-wasteland fusion of Rio de Janeiro and the Australian outback, the game's world, narrative, and characters take heavy inspiration from anime produced by Studio Trigger.

Please note that this project is still in development so these gifs/images are all WIP :)

HUNTER AND THE HUNTED

Responsibilities

Core Design
System Design
Creating and maintaining a GDD
Programming systems/mechanics
Programming multiplayer functionality
Utilising Scrum methodology
Scrum Master
Quality Assurance
Numeric Design
Creating a commercial video pitch.

itch.io

Type Of Game: Survival / Multiplayer / PVP
Roles: Designer / Lead Programmer
Engine: Unity C#

Team Project | University

Team of 4

In the 1 on 1 fights of Hunter and The Hunted, players embody tactical hunters during the day, strategically trying to outmanoeuvre one another all whilst collecting loot. Players can craft weapons and hunt for runes that transform them into demons, to defeat their rival, repair their boat and escape the cursed island.

video

DEATH DEALER

Responsibilities

Core design
Designing game systems and mechanics
Programming systems and mechanics
Sprint management and usage of Scrum
UI design and animations
Level design
Unreal Engine Blueprints

Type Of Game: Hack'N'Slash
Roles: Designer / Programmer
Engine: Unreal Engine Blueprints

Solo Project | University

Death Dealer is a 3D Hack'N'Slash that uses inspiration from the Y2K aesthetic, with a big focus on stylish action. The player takes on various robotic enemies that have taken over the city through various attacks and abilities. The combat system takes heavy inspiration from Kingdom Heart's proximity combat.

video

There is no playable version for this project unfortunately, so here's a video!

interseller - wip

Responsibilities

Core design
Designing game systems and mechanics
Creating and maintaining a Game Design Document
Level Design
Economy Design
Commercial Research
Quality Assurance
Sole programmer

Type Of Game: Shopkeeper x Rogue-lite
Roles: Designer / Lead Programmer
Engine: Unity C#

Solo Project | University

InterSeller is a 3D top-down shopkeeper meets rogue-lite set in outer space. The player runs their store on a ship called ‘The Marketspace’, which travels between four unique planets. When the ship reaches a planet a timer begins, counting down until it will move to its next destination. During that time, the player can either open their store to locals or venture into the planet's dungeons known as ‘Chasms’ to obtain new loot to sell at their store.