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Josh Hall-Hems

Graduate Developer // Games Lecturer // Gamer

Hello and welcome to my portfolio!

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Feel free to browse to get to know me and some of my latest projects!

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Cheers,

Josh.

Projects

A list of my projects can be seen here

Project Putt

Project currently in development

Project Putt is a single-player mini-golf game, taking inspirations from Golf-it and Golf with friends. Play across different courses of varying difficulty to get the lowest score.

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Don't Look Away

Solo side project

Don't Look Away is a small project I have been working on while teaching at University to help teach my students how the Unreal Engine works. I enjoyed it so much, I decided to turn it into a complete game.

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Investigating the design of seamless music transitions using interactive game soundtracks

Features developed for this project:

  • Interactive audio developed using Wwise.

    • Testing Positional Audio, Real-time Parameter Audio and  Trigger-based Audio.​

  • Testing environment developed in Unity to test different forms of audio implementation.  

  • To evaluate players emotions and actions triggered by the interactive audio.

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Sunseekers

Mechanics being developed for this project:

  • Develop gameplay mechanics unique to each location.

  • Dynamic day/night system impacting specific mechanics.

  • Co-operative mechanics.

  • Local & Online Multiplayer

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Retail Rush

Mechanics developed for this project:

  • Linear customizable dialogue system.

  • Dynamic scoring system based on the dialogue system.

  • Accessibility settings to modify core gameplay mechanics.

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Galaxy Defender

Mechanics developed for this project:

  • Dynamic enemy wave spawn-in system.

  • Gameplay progress saving features.

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Underground Sports

Mechanics developed for this project:

  • Unique gameplay mechanics for each country.

  • Gameplay progress saving features.

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Proficiencies

Software Knowledge

  • Unity Engine

  • Unreal Engine

  • Visual Studio

  • JetBrains Rider

  • Blender

  • Wwise

Coding Languages

  • C#

  • C++

  • Python

  • JavaScript

  • HTML

  • CSS

Other Skills

  • GitHub

  • SCRUM

  • LaTeX

  • Analytical-oriented design

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