The sands of betrayal is a first person horror game made over a week for the Scream Jam 2025.

For this jam I had limited time but had some key areas I wanted to explore. Normally in game jams I focus on what I think are my strengths and end up making puzzle of arcase games. For this jam I wanted to try and make something more narative, atmospheric and imersing. I decided to go with a 1st person adventure/stealth theme which would push me outside my comfort zone and have to think more about world building, player controls and visual effects. I also took this oppurtunity to try Unitys Timeline system for the first time in order to make a multipart dynamic intro cutscene.

I am proud of this game, and although I think it is rough around the edges due to my limited experience I think it resulted in something reasonably polished and enjoyable.

Chief complaints is a game I made in a weekend for the Solo game jam 2025. Its a 3D spacial restraint puzzle game in which you must place differnt tribes in order to keep them happy with their differnt demands.

This game has a robust constraint engine allowing for non uniform grids and non trivial wants/needs from the units. This included tooling using Odin inspector to allow for quicker iteration and level design.

I also tried to work on my scene layout and shader skills by making an interactiver an dynamic level select and using shaders to make the placement look and feel more interesting.

Overall I like the concept of the game and improved my skills. I think it didnt quite realise its potential as despite the framwework being there I ran out of time to really dive in and explore the gameplay mechanics and ideas fully.

Roll up, Roll up is a game I created in two weeks for the Boss Rush game jam 2025. It is a 3D action game set in a haunted carnival where you must pit yourself against three unique bosses using nothing but an oversized mallet.

The game marks the first time I've created a 3D action game like this. Although I could bring over the skills and techniques I've learned from creating some of my strategy games It still presented a lot of new challenges and ideas that i enjoyed tackling.

I think my biggest achievements in this game were

• A compelling over world which roots the fights into a cohesive world.
• Cinematic boss intros that used cinemachine to create sell the character of the bosses.
• An adaptable combat system that allowed me to build varied and interesting attacks for all the differn bosses using the same base system.
• A kinematic system that allows the player to dynamically drag the mallet around behind her.

This game has a lot im proud of achieving in such a short amount of time. I am excited to take the lessons i've learnt see how I can use them to tackle more action games in the future.

All in is a game created in two weeks for the GDKO 2025 game jam round 1 and placed 11/210 overall, achieving 1st place in the 'sense of progression' category.

The game is a push your luck strategy game where each day you must expand your casino and welcome patrons. Each patron type has a list of likes and dislikes ranging from simple rules like 'prefers X activity' to more involved rules like 'prefers rooms with at least X other patrons but no Y'. These combine to create emergent personalities and unique situations and challenges.

The game itself is the most polished I have made for a game jam boasting:

• A full tutorial.
• hundreds of unlockables including 6 patron types, 40 rooms and over 50 achievements
• A rich rules creation flow allowing for dynamic creation of rules/patrons/rooms/decorations

• Ui polish including pause menus, granular music control and a day review screen.

  I really love this game and feels like i managed to fit everything i could in for a proof of concept. I focused on making systems that could help me generate content quickly and iterate on ideas and gameplay.

'A silent betrayal' is a Unity game made in a week for the 1-Button Jam 2024.

This jam, as the name suggests, had the restriction that the game could only use one button. This naturally lead itself to the idea of using a telegram and morse code as an input method. With this in mind we decided to stretch ourselves outside of our comfort zone and create a game that was more narrative driven than our previous games.

At its basics 'A silent betrayal' is a branching visual novel game wrapped in a morse-code mini-game. Each message must be decoded and a decision on how to react be made and sent back via a series of dots and dashes. However, each choice has a meaningful impact on the story and how the war plays out, with a branching and looping event line that leads to different outcomes. This multilayered narrative creates a sense of unease and tension as you try to navigate the game and discover where your loyalties lie.

Im most proud of the branching event system created in the game. Each scenario has many branching paths that can loop back or lead to completely new outcomes. These events can have triggers associated with them like planes flying by or artillery firing. The choices made also lead into the dynamic battle noises in the background.

The morse code system itself was a challenge to try and make a caricature of morse code that felt good but also scaled well with a system that can generate it dynamically at runtime.

There is a tutorial in the game which always feels like an achievement to get in a game jam game!

Post Zero is a Unity game made in a week for the Crazy Web Game Jam 2024.

With the jams theme of 'Everything is a remix' I decided to create a game where (almost) everything could be destroyed and those components could be used to create new things. I thought this mechanic worked well with a post apocalyptic zombie survival setting.

In order to facilitate this I create several interconnected systems to allow me to quickly implement new items and interactions, these included:

• A damage system with damage types and modifiers (e.g. fire, piercing)
• A 'Shootable' system powering everything from the players weapons, mines or turrets
• A 'Destructibles' system with loottables and pickups used for the environment and enemies
• A 'Crafting' system working with the loottables to allow the player to create new items from the destroyed components

There is also an inverse kinematics system that keeps the players hands in the correct position even when changing weapons and performing differnt animations.

Overall I feel like the game has a good atmosphere and deep mechanics. However, these arent fully realised due to the time constraints of the jam.

"I may be a surgeon but I am on my lunch break and I don’t think I should operate on that family" was made in unity for the 3rd Indie Dev Game Jam. The theme was "one tool, many uses" and out team quickly settled on the humble spork as the ultimate realisation of this.

In the game you are presented with comedic illness that you must scoop, slice and prong out of the patient, using each mouse button for each action. I was responsible for all the code in the game, managing to squeeze the long laundry list of overly optimistic features into the 72 hours we had to make the game. This included:

• Two modes of play, a career mode and arcade mode.
• An Online high score system for each mode.
• 14 different illnesses to cure.
• Tutorials, transitions and options.
• An animated credits scene.

"Nano Evolution Bots (N.E.B)" is a Unity game I made in 72 hours for the 24th Score Space Jam. Given the theme "Evolution," I decided to create a game where you try to selectively evolve nanobots to counter a constantly adapting virus.

To play, you must mix physics-based, springy molecule chains to update your nanobots, maintaining a balance between positive effects and unwanted mutations.

Some highlights I took away from this project:

• As this project was a solo endeavor, I had to create the graphics myself. Wanting to be efficient with my time, but also to push myself to experiment in areas I was less comfortable with, I dedicated time to exploring new techniques for the background graphics while using a more familiar style for the foreground elements. I'm happy with the results, which strike a good balance between time and effort, and allow players to easily distinguish between foreground and background elements.
• Using physics as a key element of the game required players to untangle webs of molecules. This led to some interesting and fun gameplay elements and taught me a lot about physics engine edge cases and designing around known limitations.
• I enjoyed creating the molecule name generator that builds a unique name depending on composition, yielding some pleasing and amusing results.

"The British Are Coming!" is a Unity game made for the 50th Ludum Dare game jam. The theme was "Delay the Inevitable," and after some brainstorming, our team quickly settled on the idea of a pirate ship trying to maintain its operations in a world where the British Empire was slowly taking over the seas.

In the game, you set sail and recruit pirates to pillage and raid locations of your choice. Each location has procedural points of interest with variable difficulties and rewards. For each successful raid, you will gain ire from the British Navy and find future destinations better guarded. It starts off with small camps and ramps up to keeps, towns, and even forts.

As the sole programmer on this project, I dove into creating my first 3D game. Our vision was ambitious, and I am still proud of the amount of features we managed to cram into this project in just 72 hours, including:

• Smart pathing to allow for navigation of hundreds of agents around dynamic objects.
• Procedural islands generated on several data points from your current playthrough.
  • For instance, raiding more British-controlled territories would increase the likelihood of military presence on future islands.
• A fully-featured tutorial to help players learn the game.
• A full menu system with UI options.
• Secrets, easter eggs, and side missions.

I cannot take credit for the incredible soundtrack, which, despite hearing it for literally tens of hours during development, I have not gotten bored with! Matt absolutely smashed it out of the park with this one.

"PIBE" is a game made in Unity for the 48th Ludum Dare game jam. The theme was "Deeper and Deeper," and I collaborated with my wonderful partner (now wife). After some initial challenges, we resonated with the idea of a diver exploring for treasure and using it to upgrade their equipment to dive deeper and deeper.

I was responsible for the code and level design. What I learned from this project includes:

• The ease of designing a large map on paper compared to implementing it in code, and the value of iterative refinement.
• The power of parallax in adding polish and depth to a scene, making a world come alive.
• Creating dynamic terrain with sprite shapes along a spline.
• The significant impact of small polish elements, like the music transitioning from land to underwater with a breath sound effect.

Although we entered purely for fun I am proud of the scores we achieved with the most prestigious being voted #32 out of 3866 entries in "theme" and #239 overall!

I am also so blown away by Ami's ability to rise up to a challenge in an area she had no experience in and create such beautiful art assets in such a short time frame. Without her help this project would not have been possible.

"Sushi INK" was a game developed in Unity for the 47th Ludum Dare game jam. The theme was "Stuck in a Loop," and I worked as the sole developer in a team of friends.

We aimed to deviate from traditional interpretations of the theme. The concept of being stuck on a sushi conveyor belt emerged and resonated with us all. This evolved into controlling an octopus making sushi with its tentacles, leading to the unique idea of a "sushi and tentacle management game."

In "Sushi INK," you control one tentacle at a time to pick, place, chop, and cook ingredients, fulfilling customer orders. The game's simplicity belies the challenge of limited reach and counter space, leading to juggling orders and tentacle tangles.

The technical heart of the project lay in tentacle movement and control, alongside creating a convincing conveyor belt. Tentacles were implemented using connected rigid bodies and joints, complemented by a line renderer for a realistic effect. Additionally, I created a tool for building conveyor belts from splines and prefabs, allowing quick visualization and generation.

I'm proud of the outcome of this game. The team's collective effort added substantial polish and finishing touches, including dynamic screen transitions, an animated score screen, and a gameplay-mechanics-driven main menu.

Matt also went above beyond by not just creating one absolute banger for a soundtrack, but an entire OST of 5 unique and varied tracks.

"Slasher" was a game made with a friend for a self-hosted Halloween game jam. With our only limitation being to make it Halloween appropriate we quickly took inspiration from classic horror movies to make a 'slasher' game that we cleverly named "Slasher".

In this game you must pick off the holiday goers one by one without being seen. You can hide in the shadows and use the environment to your advantage.

The game included several things that were new to me at the time:

• Tilemap based level design
• Building a generic interaction system as a unity tool
• Dynamic 2d lighting
• A homemade ray-casting AI system for navigation and player detection
• Dynamic music that changes based on your actions and location

One of the biggest things we both learnt from this project was how to deal with scope creep. We had a whole slew of features and mechanics that we quickly realised needed to be cut in order to get the game finished in time. Although looking back at it, I am taken aback at just how much we managed to achieve in such a short time frame.

The music still creeps me out a little bit....

Escape from bacon bay prison was my first ever entry into a game jam. It was for the Bacon game jam whose theme was "lights". Working in a pair with an artist names Josh, we decided that we wanted to make something with a unique interpretation of the theme as we were sure most entries would interpret it as light and shadow.

We chose "Lights out", the phrase used in media and popular culture for when they would switch all the lights out for the night in a prison. This manifested as a psuedo memory/action game where you spent the day period planning your escape and then the lights out period executing your plan and avoiding the guards.