L.E.A.F
This is a group project made by Joshua Tunstall, Tom Wilswood, Nikita Patel and Yikui Liu. L.E.A.F is a 2D side scrolling action game, with an environmentally friendly message about stopping the destruction of nature and saving the planet.
2023
A Fantasy Garden Dream
A short game created in Unity game engine. The narrative of the game is about a player who has fallen into a deep sleep and they have stumbled upon a fantasy garden in their dream. In order to wake up from the dream, they must collect 30 orange energy points, complete a maze and cross a bridge by aiming at a target with an arrow they have collected along the way. Collecting 30 orange energy points will give you 'energy' to walk through the exit and wake up. This project was created in the Media Production For Interactive Environments module.
ArcadeMagnet
The ArcadeMagnet aimed to create a compact gaming system integrated into a kitchen magnet, providing users with a unique and engaging way to entertain themselves during cooking. The project involved developing four food-themed arcade-style games with dynamically adjustable difficulty levels based on the user's chosen play duration, ensuring a fun experience regardless of available time.
BBC's "The Capture" and the Future of Interactive Media
An essay examining the relationship between Interactive Media and Society within depiction of the near-future found in BBC's "The Capture". The Essay discusses media ownership, and the errosion of trust in video validity. As the show presents the society as a hidden dystopia, the relationship is not positive
Bocchi the Rythm Game
It's a typical day in Bocchi's lives where she needs to work with her bandmates to practice her guitar and help Bocchi score perfectly in various songs on her battle stages! This is Bocchi the Rock!'s fan rhythm game, but the twist is playing it without a touch screen, unlike traditional rhythm games, by using a front camera to capture hand movement and synchronising with the movement of an object on the screen, the player is able to touch the notes without physically touching the screen.
Code. Caffeine. Collapse.
Code Caffeine Collapse highlights the toxic productivity in the tech sector through a depiction of a typical software development office, fit with menial coding tasks, office propaganda, a passive aggressive boss and shallow coworker interactions. Play through the working week, completing tasks to fill up the ever increasing job quota, and make sure to drink plenty of coffee, as running out of caffeine could mean you fall asleep on the job!
Conducting the Wadebridge to Bodmin Railway
This is an interactive museum exhibit where the user plays as the conductor of the Wadebridge to Bodmin Railway
Digital Noise
What is Digital Noise? Is an immersive room-based exhibit intended to promote critical thought about a purpose-made concept termed "Digital Noise". Digital noise describes any item of technology which, due to it's pervasiveness, use, or design, is distracting or unhealthy. Some examples might be the advertisements on Time Square, QR-code restaurant menus, or Social Media. The exhibit features an open-source device called the Elektrosluch by Jonas Gruska in combination with a projection displaying thought provoking questions to engage visitors and hopefully spark interesting conversations.
Dynamometer Dash
Dynamometer Dash is a VR train experience developed for the National Rail Museum. Sit inside a model Dynamometer Car and experience its speed in a recreation of Mallard’s record-breaking 1938 run. Built for accessibility, this project can be experienced seated or standing, with or without controllers and/or a VR headset.
Eerie Escape
Eerie Escape is an infinite side-scrolling web game created using JavaScript, where you play as a ghost trying to escape from ghost hunters set in a haunted mansion. The aim is to stay alive without hitting any of the traps, trying to achieve the highest score you can.
Escape the maze!
Escape the maze! is about the player, an adventurer, who is trapped in a mysterious maze-like structure during an adventure. In order to unlock the exit and escape, the adventurer must find 3 keys located inside the maze within 90 seconds.
Eurostar 308 Interactive Display Screen
An interactive display screen that provides an informative engaging experience about the Eurostar 373 308 for school-age children. The interactive display screen consists of 2 sections - one section to learn about the Eurostar design and a driver simulation to allow the user to experience being a driver by interacting with the controls. This project was created in the User Experience Design module.
Evolve Arcade Machine
Evolve is a physical desk top arcade machine that houses a laptop with 3 games, with modern versions of classic games.
FFXIV E12S Mechanics Trainer
A website to help people clear the final fight in Final Fantasy XIV's Eden 8-man raid series. The website is a combination of a collection of various video guides and diagrams to help explain mechanics and ideal party positioning during those mechanics, and small mini-games to help the player identify safe-zones in large Area-Of-Attack style attacks, or mechanics where players have to stand in specific places to avoid killing both themselves and other party members.
Fishtank Music Controller
The Fishtank Playback controller is an experimental prototype seeking to make music playback interactions tangible. Playback time of songs are physically represented by the level of water in the tank and by decreasing or increasing this, it is possible to seek backwards and forwards through the song. The prototype uses an Bluetooth LE enabled microcontroller and ultrasonic sensor to communicate with a smartphone app which controls Spotify. No fish were harmed in the making of this project!
Froggy Town
This is a simple 3D game that is designed to provide a cosy, colourful and stress-free experience and to be enjoyed by audiences of all ages, although it is primarily a game designed for children. Explore Froggy Town as a cute frog and collect beans that have been scattered across the land! There are 26 hidden beans in total - can you find them all?
Grunchula
Grunchula is a walking simulator video game where the player must light up a dark forest in order to visit the titular goblin character “Grunchula”.
GUARDIAN.EXE
GUARDIAN.EXE is a stylized VR action game that aims to provide a satisfying action-packed experience, while requiring strategic thinking from the players. In this game, players have to defend the shrine as a guardian by summoning and setting up magical attacks using “Shikigamis”. There are three types of summons that you could choose so try them all out!
Head in the Clouds
Head in the Clouds is a short game about an author delivering copies of his latest novel to his fellow villagers. As the player glides between floating islands, they come to realize that nobody actually wants to read the book. The protagonist, however, has his “head in the clouds” and believes everyone will love it. The game is meant to comment on how artists pour their hearts into their work but often don't feel their efforts reciprocated by consumers.
Hi Buddy!
Hi Buddy! is a mobile app for University of York students to find others to do things with, from daily activities like having a meal to organizing visits to other countries.
HMS Science
An atmospheric space puzzle game based in a spaceship. The AI in the ship is acting oddly and you are sent to investigate when the captain of the ship goes missing.
The Honey Maze
The Honey Maze is a 2D maze game where players have to shoot enemies and escape within the time limit.
The Importance of Storytelling within Final Fantasy XIV
An essay exploring the close relationship between the story and the gameplay found within Final Fantasy XIV. The essay argues that the story enhances the gameplay and vice verca. The essay looks at ludonarrative cohesion with game-mechanics, the consistency of the setting's rules and how regional differences in dialogue help to keep the player invested in the game.
Intergalactic Explorers
Credits include Pak-Yin Ko, Tasneem Ahmed, and Astrid Calder, as this was a group project. Child-friendly touchscreen website + edutainment game designed to teach KS1 students about the solar system.
Learn Cantonese
Learn Cantonese is an app that teaches university students how to speak Cantonese and also allowing them to explore Hong Kong culture.
Level One Dungeon and Dragons Character Creator
This is an interactive web application that allows users to create a level one character for Dungeons and Dragons.
Lil Gardener's Adventure
Lil Gardener’s Adventure is a simple puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a garden, where the goal of the game is to escape while collecting strawberry power-ups to become strong enough to move the obstacles in your way.
Mara's Curse
An interactive fiction made for my final year project, 'Exploring player attitudes towards character death'. You play as Herschell Hallows, a former royal mage, who must decide between duty and obligation: will you work to save the noble's bedridden heir or answer to the kingdom's ruler?
Meducation
An educational app focussing on post-diagnosis education for people recently diagnosed with lifelong health conditions (i.e. Chrones Disease, Diabetes). The app is intended for people of all ages who are affected by such conditions, such as patients with long-term health conditions, and family and friends of those patients. The video showcases the last chapter of the Type 1 diabetes version of the app.
Mutablus
utablus is a top-down exploration and item management game set in an ever-changing, procedurally generated world. The world contains different biomes, structures, and items to find. It draws inspiration from old-school exploration games like Adventure and the Ultima series as well as procedural worldgen and its use in Oskar Stålberg’s games like Bad North
MyShelf
MyShelf is an interactive study website for students, designed to block out external distractions and utilise various focus techniques to keep the user on task. The user will set up a study session by selecting a study technique, a theme (out of the default theme, a space theme and an ocean theme) and entering the goal of the study session. During the session, the website will play a sound appropriate for the theme that will loop while the study session is active. The website will also display a themed HUD (head-up display), where appropriate, that will demonstrate the time remaining in the session and allow the user to add tasks that can be crossed off as the tasks are completed.
Night Owl
Night Owl is an Adobe XD app prototype which is designed to help young people, particularly women feel safer on nights out. The app was designed to help combat the ever growing issue of harassment and the fears that surround this. It contains features as a Track Map, Ride Share, Recorded Calls and Live Phone lines.
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Page Maze
Page Maze is a browser game in which the player must navigate a maze as quickly as possible. Collect keys to unlock doors and secrets that will help you proceed! Speed through four pages and reach the end, fast!
Peripheral
Peripheral is an atmospheric horror game, creating fear and tension from the game environment rather than jumpscares or explicit gore. Peripheral is set in an empty modern art museum at night and the player must navigate their way to the exit. When the player is not looking, the environment changes. It is the fear of things unseen, i.e. in the player’s periphery, that Peripheral is built on.
Pickering Food Share website concept
Pickering Food Share is a non-profit eco- and community-centred organisation that collects food from local supermarkets and cafes that is at its best before date but still perfectly fine to eat, and redistributes it to local people. The PFS website is an important project aimed at spreading awareness about the initiative in the community. It extends the organisation’s presence from just the offline world into the digital online space, and opens up a wide range of opportunities. It’s significance is in its ability to help the organisation reach a wider audience of the communities in need, potential volunteers and new businesses, growing their network of partners, customers and supporters. It offers a more convenient way to spread the information about the initiative for the volunteers, and for people to share it with each other.
QRCOOK
QRCOOK is a mobile social cooking game made in Android Studio, where players have to collect ingredients by scanning QR codes in real life and create dishes that match the customers’ tastes. This game also allows you to share your own ingredients with your friends by generating a QR code for the ingredients.
Rat Who
Rat Who is a 2D platformer, branching narrative, PC game in which the player navigates in multiple environments using a Rat as their avatar. The narrative is built on the different representations of rats across different cultures, whilst also focusing on themes of mental health such as anxiety, and cultural differences.
Rebound Rush
Rebound Rush is a 3D momentum-based platformer in which you rebound through obstacle courses to reach a goal as quickly as possible. It features 3 levels with unique visual themes and a variety of custom assets and effects. It also features a narrative told through comic panels and 6 characters to choose from. This project was created for the Interactive Media Group Project module and was a collaboration between Hang Zhou, Leah Marshall, Zewuzi Meng, Ella Blackwood, and Quinn McMahon. Hang Zhou - 3D Animator, 3D Asset Team Leah Marshall - 2D Asset Team, Programming Team Zewuzi Meng - Technical Lead (VFX Artist), 3D Asset Team Ella Blackwood - Project Manager, 3D Asset Team Quinn McMahon - Lead Designer, Level Designer, Programming Team
Recall It!
Recall It! is a 3D walking simulator where players become Elise, a bear in a world of bears who has to recall a forgotten task by walking around her small house and interact with her surroundings.
Shinkansen Tokkaido Experience
Experience the speed of a Shinkansen N700S from both the drivers and bystanders perspectives! Follow the Tokyo - Kyoto line across realistic terrain up to speeds of 177MPH. This project was created as a prototype digital experience for a proposed digital installation in the National Railway Museum.
The Ellerman Lines
This is an arcade/story style game where the player has to engage in a series of timed key presses to keep their speed up, in addition to managing and topping up fuel as they drive a train through a post-apocalyptic landscape to escape the oncoming Storm.
The Encroaching Dark
This is an arcade/story style game where the player has to engage in a series of timed key presses to keep their speed up, in addition to managing and topping up fuel as they drive a train through a post-apocalyptic landscape to escape the oncoming Storm.
The King's Meadow Personality Quiz
The King’s Meadow is a web-based, immersive experience in which users interact with the story of an ancient kingdom while exploring a whimsical forest. When the user reaches the end, they are assigned a flower that symbolizes the choices they made and the journey they took, while looking out over a grand meadow of flowers.
The Old Dream of a Fool
Content/trigger warning: Content is related to Chinese history about its Cultural Revolution. The environment is also on the dark side with use of flashlight for the player. The old dream of a Fool” is a puzzle and exploration game. It takes place during the cultural revolution in China that happened from 1966 to 1976 about a Chinese opera practitioner, who has sworn to protect the traditional opera during a chaotic cultural revolution but tragically dies during a fire. The player enters his dream as a spectator and accidentally discovers the life and experiences of the owner.
The Temple
The Temple is a 3D exploration and puzzle game created in Unity. The player is guided through a forest where they have to use gameplay elements such as exploration and collecting to reach the Temple and eventually solve the puzzle inside of it.
The Woods
A horror game set within a spooky dark forest where the player must uncover the mystery of their dark and unknown setting.
Train exhibition (GWR train exhibition)
A website about the national railway museum's diesel railcar no.4, made as part of the User Experience (UX) design module.
Travelocity
website for people who want to travel.
Trip with Shinkansen
Trip with Shinkansen is an app prototype for iPads targeted to all visitors, especially young children, and families of the National Railway Museum (NRM). The app aims to raise visitors’ interest in the Shinkansen, with the guide of the cute and friendly character Mr. Shinkansen on their way to Hakata.
Vitrified
Vitrified is a fast-paced first person shooter where you must use various potions to defeat waves of enemies. A mysterious virus has ravaged your village, causing civilians to mutate into animalistic crystal creatures. Each enemy behaves differently and can only be defeated by 1 of your 3 distinctive potion types. Survive as many waves as possible with quick thinking and strategic play!
Web-based ASL translator
This project uses the latest lightweight image recognition pipeline to allow for on device ASL-to-text translation.
Witch's Familiar
Witch's Familiar is a web application that has been designed around the aesthetic of witches and cats. The application features a potion card matching mini-game, and an accessory system for a cat companion that responds to your actions as you play.
Workshop No.25
Workshop No.25 is a short exploration game which makes use of the "Factor-based Model" to create a compelling non-linear narrative experience. In this game, you would be following the journey of Beau and Raymond to retrieve the heritage in Workshop No.25, which is left by Beau's great grandfather. All choices that you made in the game would create a difference in the storyline; and you can also switch between the two characters to interact with different objects. There are also 8 endings in total so try to discover them all!
Yardred
Yadred is a horror / stealth game experience where you will be controlling Oliver, a student from the "University of Yardred". After a trip to the ruins, Oliver has retrieved an unknown necklace and released a long-sealed demonic being in an accident. Help Oliver to solve the puzzles in his "nightmare" and uncover the secrets behind the cursed town..
Your Heritage, Your Story
Your Story is an interactive documentary that presents personal stories of archaeology and heritage from immigrants in the UK. Made in collaboration with the Council for British Archaeology (CBA), the project looks at the interactive documentary as an inclusive and creative storytelling model to forefront the voices of underrepresented individuals in the UK. By developing digital stories through a co-creative film process, the project aims to reach new audiences in archaeology and facilitate conversations around inclusive storytelling practices in the sector. Through a lens of equity and justice, the platform is a space where migrant experiences are valued for their rich contribution to new meanings of archaeology and the ever-evolving ideas around heritage. Your Heritage, Your Story is an interactive documentary that presents personal stories of archaeology and heritage from immigrants in the UK. Made in collaboration with the Council for British Archaeology (CBA), the project looks at the interactive documentary as an inclusive and creative storytelling model to forefront the voices of underrepresented individuals in the UK. By developing digital stories through a co-creative film process, the project aims to reach new audiences in archaeology and facilitate conversations around inclusive storytelling practices in the sector. Through a lens of equity and justice, the platform is a space where migrant experiences are valued for their rich contribution to new meanings of archaeology and the ever-evolving ideas around heritage." https://yourheritageyourstory.github.io/#Your_Heritage__Your_Story