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Experience

June 2022 - September 2022

Research Analyst

Gatehouse ICS 

Same Job Role and Requirements as previously.

 

This time was a short-term employment contract for the period between my First and Second year at university.

Ammanford, South Wales

December 2017 - September 2021

Front of House Team Member

Tafarn y Phonix

Front of House Responsibilities included:

  • Good Communication skills

  • Effective Teamwork

  • Good Timekeeping

  • Confidence in yourself and your team

  • Supporting everyone involved however you can

Gorslas, South Wales

June 2020 - September 2021

Research Analyst

Gatehouse ICS 

Ammanford, South Wales

This Role Involved:

  • Market research + Associated Data Collection

  • Survey and interview recruitment

  • Customer cultivation and retention

  • Database Management + general record keeping and admin

  • Cross referencing between several databases + sources such as Linkedin and internal CRM software

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Important Skills onboarded were:

  • Teamwork and communication

  • Developing a keen eye for Data discrepancies - a skill used frequently while debugging these days

  • Also attended a Journalism Course as part of my training – improved my ability to contribute to company blog posts.

  • Industry research skills, aim to find exciting and upcoming industry developments suitable for the blog. Initially for Life-Sciences, However Research skills are transferable

Education 

September 2023 - May 2024

Games Tech - Year 3

Games Technology - BSc Hons

University of the West of England

This year was comprised of three modules:

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Comprehensive Creative Technologies Project

  • The Dissertation Module - Most of my time went into developing this. 

  • A measured discussion on XR Technologies and their application in rehabilitating patients with physical impairments of the upper extremities

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Commercial Games Development

  • A module in which we explored the game developent pipeline, from idea conception to being ready to ship.

  • Final Output is WarLocks - a four player, local splitscreen, spell-slinging deathmatch.

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Advanced Technologies Research Projects

  • 2 Research Projects:

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  • Can Controllers be used to create novel gameplay?

  • Can you teach a machine learning agent to play two games?

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September 2022 - May 2023

Games Tech - Year 2

Games Technology - BSc Hons

University of the West of England

This year was comprised of five more modules:

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Gameplay Programming

Involved producing a portfolio piece showcasing skills in Unity. In order to do so,  I developed a scene demonstrating typical gameplay features, Listed below:​

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  1. A 3rd person avatar with camera relative controls

  2. A camera controller that could switch between modes such as a follow camera, a cutscene view, a spline sequence, and a lock-on camera

  3. Use of Unity's timeline system to quickly and effectively create cutscenes, and some moving platforms

  4. Combat ready enemy AI

  5. Powerups and collectibles that affected the avatar in some way

  6. A platforming sequence along a spline that relied on linear interpolation to calculate camera position.

  7. UI and Particle effects as a method of appropriate feedback to the player

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After this, we were tasked with taking what we'd learned from the indvidual portfolo and bringing that to a group project scenario and create an even more impressive piece using the best parts of everyone's previous work.

 

In conjunction to all of this, I was also tasked with producing a technical report exploring Finite State Machines and their role in the games industry and beyond, in which I referenced sections of my own work on Enemy AI.


Game Level Design

  • The Aim of this module was to teach us the core tenants of designing play spaces effectively.

  • Completed in Unreal Engine 5

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Game Engine Architecture

  • Fur - 2 Engines

  • Unity vs Unreal

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Play and Games

  • Board Games - STRIKE!

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More Games in C++

  • Arcade Games - keep up to date on c++ skills

  • Group submission as module culmination - Family Ties

September 2021 - May 2022

Games Tech - Year 1

Games Technology - BSc Hons

University of the West of England

This year was comprised of four foundational modules:

Principles of 3D environments

  • This project allowed me to develop skills in Maya Modelling Software and Unity through following a two-stage brief. Stage one required modelling a fully animated airship to a given technical specification, while stage two required importing said airship into unity, and designing a playable demo level begining with a controlable avatar on the ground, and moving onto a segment in which players pilot the airship.


Games Tech 101

  • This project required the use of Python to develop three increasingly complex projects, culminating in a final group project designed to test our ability to apply skills learned prior. Points of learning revolved arounds OOP, Class structure, Algorithms and Data Structures, Stack and Heap manipulation, Sorting algorithms, finite state machines, pathfinding and behaviour trees. We also touched on Hash Tables and Quad Trees.


Game Development Evolution

  • In Term 1, I was tasked with producing a porfolio celebrating 5 key aspects of game production - programming and problem solving, multiplayer technologies, porting and emulation, localisation in international markets, and the laws surrouning video game production

  • In Term 2, I collaborated with peers to produce a mobile game - this involved pitching 3 high concept game ideas, moving forward with a final game idea, and demonstrating a final product at the end of the development period. 


Games in C++

  • This module consisted of 4 projects designed to develop foundational knowledge in C++ using SFML. Projects involved designing a rock, paper, scissors game played in the console, and later moving on to reproducing classic arcade games such as whack-a-mole, breakout, pong and space invaders. This module culminated in a final project in which we were required to produce a 2D platforming game using the C++ standard library and SFML, while applying all of the knowledge aquired over the course of the previous projects

2013 - 2021

Ysgol Bro Dinefwr

PRE-GCSE / GSCE / A-LEVEL

South Wales

A-Level Results:​

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  • Geography – A

  • IT – B

  • Business – C

  • Physics – D

  • Computer Science – D

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