Teaching Game Design History & Theory

Level design and the creation of 2D & 3D spaces has been an enduring passion of mine. First with Duplo & Lego, then paper, then with 3D tools. The challenge of creating spaces within restrictions has always been appealing to me. Maybe you only own # blocks, maybe the player can only jump this high, or perhaps the player can fly & needs to be boxed in.2002-2021My focus has been the multiplayer RTS/FPSs Natural Selection 1 & 2. Each unit has its own way of getting everywhere & seeing everything. The challenge is to allow locations to tell stories without distracting the players.

Pro bono market research and consultation for 3 startups that were working with bluebox:- EventCipher- Indirectory- Compare the Label

Developed and delivered tertiary level content on topics such as: - Game design & development, Algorithm design, Searching & sorting, Data representation, Regular expressions, Hashing & encryption, Software development processes & roll-out strategies Provided a measurable improvement in grades, outcomes, and student engagement

Developed and delivered tertiary level content on topics such as: - Game Design; Level Design; Scripting; Rapid Prototyping Specialist programs used: UDK, Unity (C#, Javascript)

Consulted for the start-up Language and Learning Steps and helped to co-ordinate the pre-production and early production phases of development for their iPhone app, Key Word Kids.

Market analysis for 6 start-ups working within iLab. - Ample Entertainment - Horse Vision - Ollo Mobile - RentEzy - Tiger Temple - Veilability

Developed early-stage marketing plans for two mobile app projects that were being overseen by UniQuest.

Blakely van de Buckle's Brass Cabaret (2009) (PC) (GCAP 2009 Finalist)

Responsible for the execution and development of test cases, development of new test plans, and the maintenance of test databases - Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Burning Earth (2007) (Wii, PS2, X360) - Frontlines: Fuel of War (2008) (PS3) - Avatar: The Last Airbender: Into The Inferno (2008) (Wii, PS2) - 2 unreleased titlesSpecialist programs used: Microsoft Office, THQ internal testing solution