This summer I am graduting for Staffordshire University with a degree in computer games programming, prior to my degree I recieved a diploma in video game design and development from SGS college where I focused on visual scripting in Unreal. I have participated in many projects from creating a local multiplayer social deception game, a game engine in a team project and a research project into AI using Magic! The Gathering as a testing ground.
For many years content creation on YouTube has been a side passion for me. I have enjoyed creating gaming videos to make people laugh alongside developing my skills in video editing, sound and 2D visual effects.
Since getting into gaming being at the highest level has always been an interest of mine. It started off with playing TeamFortress 2 at a competetive level in both highlander and 5s, running platoons of 120 people in Planetside 2 but eventually finding my feet in speedrunning. Since then I have held world records in both Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017), Laraan and Planetside 2, currently I hold multiple individual level world record in Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017) and plan on going for the any% world record again somtime soon.
Since starting playing Magic! The Gathering in 2017 it has been a huge part of my life. I have played pretty consistently since mainly in draft formats for the first few years but in my final year of university I found my way into competetive commander known as CEDH. I have since helped develop 2 top tier decks. A mono red Magda Brazem Outlaw deck and a Gale Waterdeep Prodigy plus Scion of Halaster deck, both have allowed me to become consitenctly top 3 at my every commander tourament I have been too. Now coming to finish university I plan on expanding into modern and seeing where my future of Magic! is.
My Izzet Delver Budget Modern Deck
Here is a selection of my projects I have worked on all focused on either programming or engines work.
Days Old was a passion project I worked on throughout 2019. I focused on using UE4 and blueprints, my goal was to publish the game eventually but due to the breakdown of a relationship and there involvement in the project that never came to be. You can still download the first versions of the game online which I think shows a good indication of what could have been.
- Unreal Engine 4 (mainly Blueprints)
- PhotoShop (Visuals)
For my final year reserach project at univeristy I embarked on creating a simple monte carlo AI that given a random hand it will generate the best possible play pattern with those cards. The AI found some sucsess but was very limited a good proof of concept for sure and somthing I will look further into in the future. This project was made within the Unity Game Engine
- C#
- Visual Studio
- Unity
After university finished they hosted a Game Jam, I entered a produced as a solo team and produced sinner a endless survior game with an intersting returning sythe mechanic. I came second in the Jam as a whole being the only solo team which I am very proud of.
- C#
- Visual Studio
- Unity
- Photoshop
As part of my final year at univeristy we had a module to make an engine as a team, in this team I focused on the audio systems creating a full fluid audio sound system with simply functions for developers to implement sound to the game they would be creating.
- C++
- Visual Studio
- Direct X
- DirectXTK
Here is some of my favorite projects I have worked on to do with my YouTube Channel
In this video I took a look at the stereotypes surronding the scout in TeamFortress2. Im proud of this video becasuse it has a lot of moving parts, from my 3D renders in Source Film Maker to my countless created images in Photoshop. I think in total this video has around 10 to 15 hours of production value. Although the views didn't paticularily pull through Its still one of my favorites.
Team Fortress 2
Source Filmmaker // Sony Vegas // Photoshop // Audacity //TeamFortress2 // Bandicam
This video was intersting for me, I wanted to make somthing more artsy so experimented with recording at a really high framerate. Unfortunatly I got some flack in real life for being "edgey" but I like how it turned out.
Team Fortress 2
Audacity // Sony Vegas // TeamFortress2 // Photoshop
Here is some of my greatest speedrunning achievments
This is my favorite speed game and the one I personally have invested the most time into. I am personally repsonsible for finding almost every skip in the game and this was World Record for around 6 months.
This wasn't too difficult to achieve but it was more I wanted to make a meaningful impact on the speedrun for my favorite game of all Time. This was 3rd place when I submiteed it but its has not dropped down to 4th.