Jack Mays

NextGen Unity Skills Bootcamp Showreel

Showreel of work completed during the Unity Skills Bootcamp with Nextgen Skills Academy.
A return to Unity after a time away with Unreal, reacclimating with the Engine and reaffirming skillset from the angle of Employability.
The Bootcamp presented valuable and rare opportunities for collaboration and growth, particularly through the in-person Game Jams of sizeable teams which I pushed myself to fully utilise.

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Weird & Wonderful Bar

First Unreal Engine Prototype.
Submission for 48 hour GameJam DrinkDevs 2024 with a two member team under a 'make the player say "wait, what?" ' theme.
While it possesses blemishes and quirks that come from a 48 hour crunch, I am proud of the Prototypes strong representation of the core mechanics, demonstrating symbol language translation and the potential for strange and unique patrons. Leading to a simple yet robust game concept with polish, optimisation and further learning

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Dino Run

Game based on the 2D chrome easter egg, made to showcase newly gained knowledge of Blender from self-learning and Udemy course to create first ever 3D Asset Game within this portfolio.

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Assassin

an early implementation of a colour matching puzzle game with an assassin theme.
Involved using Pixel Perfect 2D for the first time and all the unique challenges with setting up specific parameters and resolution to get a crisp Sprite visual without flickering Pixels.
Currently built for a fixed 1920x1080 and works best fullscreen.

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Mind and Muscle

A simple point and click game whose entire purpose was to provide a route into learning the basics and foundation of developing on a Mobile Platform, namely android, through Unity.

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Hero 2 Zero

Project which had aims to be funded through Kickstarter and Greenlit by the now defunct Steam Greenlight.
Adapted from a board game created as coursework, this project provided insight not only into digitally adapting a board games mechanics into code, but also more valuable insight into complex things such as community reaction and feedback to exposed projects and fundraisers.