Eight years, in order

Where it starts

First builds in Unity

Self taught

Unity, C# and whatever idea was interesting that week. No brief and no deadline, years before any of it counted towards a grade.

Education

BTEC Level 3 National Diploma

Creative Digital Media · Newcastle College

Finished at Distinction, and the point where games stopped being the thing to do after homework and became the thing to study next.

• Distinction

Education

FdSc Games Technologies begins

Newcastle College University Centre

Two years of games technology, and the year the output turned consistent rather than occasional. Everything past this point shipped.

Project

Pinnable

Solo · Unity 2D

An arcade score attack game whose hazards unlock on a survival timer, then scale their own spawn weight with score. The difficulty tracks the player instead of a fixed curve.

• Unity 2D
• C#
• Physics

Team project

Candy Corporate

Small team · Unity 2D

A top down extraction game in the shape of Lethal Company. I led the level design, tile creation and pixel art integration.

• Pixel art
• Level design

Project

3D Netcode Tank Game

Solo · Unity 3D

Networking learned properly: Relay hosted sessions on a 30 Hz tick, cloud authentication, and a 64 ray hitscan resolved on the server so a client never reports its own hits.

• Netcode
• Multiplayer

Project

Unicellular

Solo · Unity

An idle simulation stress tested at 10,000 concurrent entities, held together by a multi rate tick and time sliced proximity AI rather than a per entity update.

• Simulation
• FSM
• Optimisation

Project

Wanted

Solo · Tyne to Game jam

Built in one week. A single detection meter drives three state officer AI, escalating patrols and helicopter passes across procedurally placed cover.

• Stealth AI
• Procedural

Education

FdSc Games Technologies

Newcastle College University Centre

Graduated with a 2:1, a Distinction in year one and a Merit in year two.

• 2:1

Project

Minimalists

Solo · Unity 3D

A node conquest RTS whose AI gets no cheats and no extra information. It commits through the same percentage interface the player uses, across several distinct personalities.

• Enemy AI
• RTS

Education

Transferred to Teesside University

BSc (Hons) Games Development, final year

A new university and a higher level in the same step, straight into the final year of the BSc.

Team project

Space Bar Simulator

Team of 10 · Unreal Engine 5

Beta Arcade, Teesside's studio simulation module. I owned the player controller on Enhanced Input, the interaction system behind one Blueprint interface, and the camera blended stations.

• Unreal Engine 5
• Blueprints

Project

Tile Turfer

Solo · Unity 2D

One territory percentage drives the difficulty, the fire rate and the enemy AI at once, across procedurally generated caves with runtime 2D NavMesh baking.

• Procedural
• Enemy AI

Project · final year artefact

Cyber Station

Solo · Unity 3D · 90 / 100

86 scripts and roughly 17,000 lines. Hundreds of passengers run off one fixed 10 Hz tick, picking facilities by lowest estimated total delay, with six live ratings feeding back into the spawn rate.

• Simulation
• AI Navigation

Award

Best Artefact, Games Programming and Development

ExpoTees 2026, Teesside University

Cyber Station took Best Artefact in its category at the university's end of year showcase.

Education

Graduated with First Class Honours

BSc (Hons) Games Development · Teesside University

80% overall, with the final year project at 84% and its artefact at 90.

• First Class
• 80% overall

Industry

Develop:Brighton 2026

Week one of the internship

Spent with the Shiverbug team: a day on the expo floor, and the rest of it talking to grads, programmers, designers and studio leads.