ADAM BAILEY

Home Sweet Home was created for the 2019 Global Game Jam in collaboration with John Millard.  The theme of What home means to you was interpreted literally in the development of this game, a 2 player co-op experience which sees you tasked with the upkeep of a suburban home.  Players must work together to mow lawns, keep the house clean, and look after your growing family (who will do their absolute best to get into trouble as soon as you stop paying attention to them!)

Design, Level Design, Art, Lighting Adam Bailey

Design, Programming, Art John Millard 

Additional art assets from packs by Kenney

Properteer was created for the 2018 Global Game Jam by a four person team in which I primarily acted as designer and level designer.  The theme of transmission was interpreted by us as the transmission of properties, executed in the form of a puzzle-platformer where the player must explore different environments exchanging properties between elements of the world to reach the end goal.  Ideas which were prototyped and ultimately dropped for the final product included rubber surfaces and movable objects.  While fun, these elements risked confusing the player and so I chose to take the strategy of restricting initial puzzle design to three transmittable properties: water, stone, and energy.

The decision of what elements to focus on was reached through a design process which crafted a user story for the tutorial level, using skill atoms to map out the essentials for a player to learn and then testing their understanding of each before they can progress to the next.  As the tutorial level was decided upon as our Minimum Viable Product it had to introduce and reinforce all the players core abilities and prove the concept of the game.

Ultimately this design process benefited the game, as having a solid plan for the tutorial level (which we had defined as the Minimum Viable Product to meet the theme) allowed us to complete and polish it early, allowing time for the production of additional levels.

In the week after the Game Jam I ported the project to Android.

Design Adam Bailey (Game Design and Level Design for levels 1 & 2)

Art Chris Hopgood & Sam Nicholas (Level Design for level 3)

Programming John Millard

Pilot Wave VR was created for the 2017 Global Game Jam by a four person team in which I primarily acted as designer and level designer.  Initial brainstorming on the theme of Waves went through a variety of potential options before we settled on the concept of using waves of sound to navigate an environment.  Taking advantage of the newly released Touch controllers, players have to feel around the environment to visualise it with sound waves seen emanating from all interactions.  Another early decision on my part was to avoid any need for teleportation or walking controls, with all actions talking place in a virtual space which matched the floor size of the real world play area.  This resulted in dense, detailed spaces that encourage players to experiment and reduced the barrier to entry as the only controls that had to be taught involved basic use of the grips to pick up virtual objects.

A highlight of this production for me was how much the entire project built to VR's strengths, even to the level that all 3D assets were created by Simeon inside VR, using the Oculus Medium tool.

Programming John Millard

Art Simeon Saëns

Level Design Adam Bailey

Sound Recording Nick Borrego

Alone is a short narrative experience created as a demonstration project for students engaged in the Narrative Design 1st Year subject at AIE.  The intent of the project (built on and off over a few lessons) was to demonstrate several lighting, particle, audio, and scripting techniques.

Most environmental models are either Unity Standard Assets, or free models from the Asset Store, used to rapidly block out the environment.

For personal development, I also used the project to experiment with building to the campus PS4 DevKit.  All screenshots and videos provided here are from the PS4 version of the project.

One element of this project with which I was particularly happy was the dynamic storm system I developed.  Lightning strikes are randomly spawned in a range of distances, with audio clips delayed accordingly.  A convincing volumetric fog effect is imitated through adjusting colour of standard Unity fog based on lightning strikes.  Rain effects are created using a relatively small number of large rain sheet particles.

Design, Level Design, Scripting, Lighting, Storm System Adam Bailey

Audio SoundSnap

Environmental Assets and Fire Particles Unity Standard Assets & Unity Asset Store