Educational "Pokemon GO"-game, teaching kids about nutrition
"EduTrition" is an educational game inspired by Pokemon GO that was made to teach children in Bhutan about nutrition and food. The game was made in collaboration with the United Nations. It uses GPS coordinates and Google Maps data to make a virtual world where the player can find different nutritious food and increase their nutrition score.
I worked on this project as a freelance programmer and designer for approximately a year. I worked along with another designer and artist and was the sole programmer on the project.
We worked on the project until the COVID-19 pandemic forced the UN to direct their attention elsewhere.
Master thesis in analysing and replicating melee attacks from 2D games
During my masters in Games from the IT University of Copenhagen, I wrote a thesis on game feel. Specifically, the game feel of melee attacks in 2D games such as Hollow Knight and Street Fighter. The thesis consisted of analysis and replication of example attacks found in commercial games. I also made a typology of all the elements that make up a melee attack.
A large part of the project was my "Attack Prototyping Tool". This tool was made to replicate the example attacks in Unity, but also to enable playing around with these parameters to see how it affects the game feel of the attacks. The tool was made to enable designers to easily explore and prototype new melee attacks that they might use in their own games.
Read my thesis
Well-optimized voxel engine inspired by Minecraft written in C++
During my masters in Games from the IT University of Copenhagen, I had a course in game engine programming. My end-of-semester project was making this voxel engine. In the game you can walk around a generated world and place and destroy blocks. We also built a particle system that plays when you destroy a block.
ExecutableWe worked with a project called Simple Render Engine for rendering graphics, calculating physics and calculating collisions and built a voxel engine on top of that. We especially spent time on optimizing the engine. For example, when rendering a group of blocks we render them all as a single mesh to save draw calls. We also only render the sides of the blocks that point outwards and are visible.
Technical report
Games made at various game jams
I have attended many many game jams and I keep my favourite games from these jams on my personal Itch.io page found through the link below.
On the page, you can find juicy 2D platformers such as "Downside Up" and "I am the Narrator". When working on platformers, I like working with a mix of Unity's RigidBody system and my own physics code to make the jumping feel especially good.
You can also find projects such as "Pizza Panic!", a local multiplayer game where you drive and drift your way around a city to see who can deliver the most pizzas.
Or "Ender's Pearl", a game I made as a design challenge. I made a very simple main mechanic and then challenged myself to see how many different and interesting levels I could come up with.
Educational game teaching music theory to kids aged 6-9
"Ozzy is new to music" is a game that teaches young kids the basics of music theory. It consists of seven different mini-games, all teaching one aspect of music theory such as basic sheet music, rythm and melodies. The game is based on a childrens book of the same name and also has a story and characters from this book.
I worked on this project as a freelancer and made prototypes for the seven mini-games. I worked with the creator of the book to refine the mini-games and make sure they were fun and educational.
The game is released and being used in schools in Denmark. It can be seen on the webpage below for music teachers.
Stop-motion app for kids and their grown-ups
Piximakey is a Unity stop-motion app with an accompanying toybox of modelling clay, custom backgrounds and camera holders. It is made for people of all ages, but is specifically aimed at children. Kids can use the modelling clay or their own toys along with the app to make their own movies and share them online. The app has been through a successful Kickstarter campaign and can be found on the Play Store.
I worked on this app near it's initial release. Close to launch, the app's UI was outdated and in need of an overhaul. I worked on exporting the new UI art and implementing it in Unity. I would replaced the old UI with the new art, made sure it would scale well to different screen resolutions and added many small touches of juice.
App store link
StarCraft bot written in C++ for the Student StarCraft AI Tournament
During my bachelor at the Danish Technical University I made a an AI for the Student StarCraft AI Tournament (SSCAIT).
The AI is a Protoss bot that works on any map, can plan out a build order, place buildings to conserve space, scout out the
enemies strategy and launch effective attacks using micro management.
The AI is made using the open-source C++ framework Brood War API (BWAPI). BWAPI enables a programmer to get simple information from the game, such as the position of visible units or issuing commands to units. My main responsibility was to build the software architecture and to implement effective building placement and resource collection strategies.
Sci-fi management game made during university
Milkyway Inn, is a Tycoon inspired game, drawing inspiration from games such as Evil Genius and Zoo Tycoon. The game puts you in the role of the manager of an interstellar inn located inside of an asteroid. Visitors from around space will come and visit your station. Your job as the manger is to balance the workings of the station and make sure that no visitor leaves dissatisfied.
I worked on the game as a programmer and designer. I especially worked with the other designers to ideate, prototype and play-test ideas. I also worked on delivering these ideas to the other programmers.
The game was made in 4 months for the Game Project Course at the IT University of Copenhagen.