Welcome, I am Daniel - a programming fanatic that loves everything to do with making games!

PROJECTS

Three years of learning, developing and designing under the leadership of industry experts.

Here are just some of the team projects I had the privilege to work on during my degree!

about me

I am a first-class graduate from the University of Staffordshire London, where I studied Computer Game Design but despite my design degree, my true passion lies in programming

In the last three years, I have developed my skills in Unreal Engine, C++ and C# programming in hopes of developing fun interactive experiences!

I have an understanding of core game design concepts thanks to years of doing this as a hobby, starting all the way back in 2015 with GameMaker Studio.

If you want to reach out about working together, send me an email at rashfort606@gmail.com

college projects

(Very, very old projects of my early game development hobby days)

Here are a few prototypes I developed during my game design course in college!

All done using Construct 3. All the system design skills I learned in this engine were a crucial stepping stone into developing with engines like Unreal Engine, Unity and GameMaker Studio.

There are many others not showcased here (over 20 prototypes!) as they were all focused on a single mechanic or learning one engine feature. Regardless, they all refined my skills in different ways.

SHADE - Prototype (2021)

A prototype I developed to learn how to parse JSON files to define custom player input keys and player properties. This also allowed (although now primitive) for persistent storage of state.

This was my first time also working with a Finite-State-Machine (FSM) to handle player state and animations, the idea of FSM was quickly integrated into all my projects soon after.

The original game idea was about having a “red” form for platforming sections and a “purple” form for combat, the player was able to switch between them at the press of the Q button. Other forms were also planned but never implemented, like most of the game idea.

TDG - Prototype (2021)

When I found out that I really enjoyed developing data-driven systems, my first thought was “how do Tower defense games utilize the concept in their game loops?”.

So I sought out to develop my own wave manager, enemies with path finding, turrets with targeting and predictive logic using a lot of applied mathematics (not the available tools in Construct 3) AND a player inventory to store what turrets were available for placing.

This developed my initial skills in data-driven managers that could process any combination of inputs and output the expected behavior. UI is adaptive to the turret placing range using Pythagoras.

The original game idea was for the game to get progressively difficult the more waves the player beats, turrets could malfunction and would need to be repaired. This was all an effort to make TDG more interactive.