Projects - University of Staffordshire GradEX

Cadman

"Tales Of All Hallows Eve" Video Game Concept By Evie Bowen

Explore 15th - 18th Century, Halloween folklore paper-craft oddities. "Tales Of All Hallows Eve" is an eerie but endearing video game concept, with interesting and whimsical characters and creatures.

Evie Bowen

[OP] GOLDEN BROWN

Modelling Modular Weapons With Realistic Combat Worn Aesthetics

Xander Stanier

2D Games Creation

2D Game I made during a module at University. The Images highlight different level design techniques I have used.

Jack Barnfield

2D Touhou Megaman Fangame in Unreal Engine 5

A 2D Oldschool Sidescroller made in Unreal Engine 5. A Touhou Project fangame using the classic Megaman Gameplay Formula, staying faithful to classic Video Game Design trends.

Oskar Zywer

3D Creature Design - Mushroom Mage Boss

3D Creature Design - Mushroom Mage Boss inspired by Elden Ring

Eleonor Guerrero

A cinematic experience that combines cutscenes and gameplay

A cinematic game that explores the symbiotic relationship between cinematography & game design.

Guvvy Atwal

A Distant Memory

A Distant Memory from a younger teen.

Owen Tonks

A level design project for modded Black Ops 3, using the Radiant Editor.

A level design project for modded Black Ops 3, using the Radiant Editor.

Ryan Banks

Action Combat System Exploring Player Agency and Tactical Emergent Gameplay

A flexible and strategic action combat system inspired by the depth of competitive fighting game interactions, that encourages player agency, creative play and unique solutions to problems.

Robert Titiri

ADAPTIK

A procedural animation solution in Unreal Engine 5 using Control Rig for static hand-keyed animations with dynamic terrain-adaptive locomotion through inverse kinematics.

Sarthak Sachdeva

Angel Concept Design

An boss-fight character design concept for a collaborative game project.

Ellicia Okandju

Angels Rest: Affordance and Navigation in Level Design

A walking-simulator level set in an abandoned monastery. How are affordances conveyed and to what extent do we currently rely on existing video game knowledge when communicating paths?

Hedda Kalvo

AR 15 Custom

Game ready AR 15 Custom with multiple attachments with a realism style close to Call of duty/Escape from Tarkov

Tharathip Divarangkoon

BatMorph - Games Development Project

A Xenomorph - Vampire Bat hybrid that uses morph targets.

Abbie Slater

Beatscape

3D platformer where the player can influence the music. Further tying how much the player can influence the world around them and an exploration into how this effects the design.

Lewis Robley

Bed Engine

Bed engine is an ECS based game engine it has been in development for nearly a year at this point with plenty more planned.

Jake Hickman

Bill's Bar - The Last Of Us (Fan Art)

This is an interpretation of Bill's Bar From the last of us part 1.

Oliver Carter

Bodhi - Concept art Final Year Project

A character and creature design project based on Buddhist mythology.

Elliott Spratt

Broken Loop

In a semi post-apocalyptic 80s America, a journalist and survivor investigate the mysterious effects of a time loop on their world.

Rhoda Plange

Cave Lizard Creature sculpt - Advanced character and creature sculpture

Cave Lizard - a creature design and sculpting project.

Ria Johnston

Chevrolet Bel Air (1957)

This project encompasses comprehensive work on the 3d vehicle's engine bay, exterior, and interior components.

Rafid Ahamed

Chronicles of the Tidecaller

Set in an overflooded world where people and sea monsters co-exist together.

Georgi Yankov

Climate Catalyst

This immersive weather game showcases a dynamic weather system. Solving a static environment problem.

Jack Edwards

Coaching: Democracy or Dictatorship? - Research Paper

Research paper on coaching styles in esports and traditional sports, focusing on the coach's impacts on cohesion.

Daniel Beeston

Coalheart: Informing Design Through Narrative

Narrative focused detective game prototype, answering the question: “How do you design mechanics and systems that are built to immerse the player within a character and narrative?”

Sander den Drijver

Companion AI

A demonstration of MARPO as a method of AI decision-making

Sean Tan

Compelling Vampire Creature Design & Narrative

Creature design around vampires with a horror-based spin

Eugene Walters

Couture Armoury

High fahion and armoury looks beautiful together

David Oluyemi

Creating a Seamless Gameplay Narrative in a Game Engine with Motion Captur

This project aims to deliver a seamless gameplay experience, free from obvious cinematic-to-gameplay transitions. It also utilises performance capture to enhance the experience.

Jack Edwards

Creating a Stylised Creature From Scratch

A fantasy stylised creature lovingly created from scratch.

Sophie Grainger-Baird

Creating Adaptive UI for a Fantasy RPG

My project is about creating adaptable UI for a fantasy RPG, it was made in Figma and centres around asset creation.

Lily Page

Creating Challenging AI For RTS Games

Developing challenging AI opponents for Real-Time Strategy games.

Thomas Stevens

Cryptid-Inspired Environment

Found in this environment, previously entailing events have left a tragic scene behind. Though, it's clear that the story behind these events reveals something more unique about this world.

Jaden Chhatralia

Cyber Japan

A entrance into a new begining with tales as old as the beginning

Harry Broun

Design by Subtraction and its Efficiency Compared to Other Methods

My project explored the method of “Design by Subtraction”, assessing its potential to improve game development efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance immersion through minimalist design.

William Lowe

Designing a Dynamic UI for Enhanced Player Experience

A dynamic and player-focused UI designed for enhanced immersion, implemented in Unreal Engine.

Olivia Ngo

Developing Hazard

A Destructible Puzzle Game

Charlie Marriage

Divine Realms

Divine Realms, experience the magic of India.

Riya Yenpure

DJ FERAL + B3AST (Stampede: Racing Royale Designs)

unofficial POPSTAR-themed outfit and vehicle concepts for Stampede: Racing Royale!

Elis Olsson

Doodle Crafter

Draw doodles to summon tools so you can escape the dungeon. Trained with Python Keras to Quick, Draw! Dataset which is (C) Google Inc., licensed CC Attribution 4.0 Int.

Colin Wood

Downpour Of Anguish

When a devastating storm hits the small fishing village of Cullen, Duncan has to find his way through the storm to find his son.

Liam Turner

Dragons & Debt

A multiplayer party game, where players must collect the most amount of coins, disrupting their opponents with various abilities.

Charlie Birchall

Dynamic Assessment of Musical Improvisation for Gameplay

Vertical slice of a music improvisation game which tests the player's ability to harmonise with the music being played. Assessing musical ability in a more dynamic way than rhythm games.

Edward Hill

Dynamic Pathfinding

Demonstration of Dynamic pathfinding in a 2D environment

Harry Watts

Echo Alley

Echo Alley is a rain-soaked, atmospheric environment set in a quiet, alley, where a lone truck and subtle details create a story-driven, immersive world in Unreal Engine 5.

Amaan Zamir

Eldritch Abilities VFX

A set of Game Ready VFX

Sebastian Lucker

Entity Component System Comparison - Sparse Sets vs Archetypes

Benchmarking different ECS architectures in C++ to reveal and compare key performance characteristics.

Louis Cox

Environmental storytelling within a cinematic

Slyce is a cinematic with no exposition, solely relying on environmental storytelling to convay the narrative.

Harvey Lawrence

Esports vs The Market. A comparative publisher analysis

The study aims to be a foundational piece in understanding the impacts an Esports title can have on a publishers stock price and how to utilise this to increase ROI.

Khaan Salih

Exploration of Real-Time Volumetric Cloud Rendering

This project formed the basis of my dissertation; I implemented volumetric cloud rendering and billboarded cloud rendering in order to compare the performance of the effects against one another.

Rhys Elliott

Exploring Inclusivity and Gender-Based Toxicity within Esports

A final year dissertation compiling different secondary sources using Games, Gender, and Social Studies, with the aim to analyse gender-based toxicity within Video Games and Esports communities online.

Jennifer Hart

Feudal Living - Medieval Sims-like life simulator game.

A sims-like medieval life simulator where the player takes control of a character in medieval England and attempts to control their life and manage their needs.

Jack Slaski

Fight Dummies: A Prototype for a Third Person Shooter Active Ragdoll Game

A prototype for an active ragdolling third person shooter game

Nathan Glover

Finkton Factory - Bioshock Infinite Environment Fan Art

A fully modular, expansive environment inspired by BioShock Infinite and styled after the distinctive art of Dishonored.

Timothy Lee

Flo-Motion! A Stop-Motion Mascot Platformer

Flo-Motion! is a 3D mascot platformer, created from a photo-scanned stop motion doll I created in a Summer.

Joseph Boardman

Fractured Memories

Fractured Memories is a narrative-driven puzzle game where players uncover a haunting family mystery through shifting realities and atmospheric exploration in a fog-covered mansion.

Yukika Ozaki-Garrett

Freeflow Combat Animation System

Batman: Arkham-inspired freeflow combat system built in Unreal, featuring fluid & responsive handkey animations, cinematic finishers, smart AI and dynamic enemy targeting.

Jonny Renaut

Full Body and Facial Motion capture on a Metahuman

This project is the combination of Full Body and Facial Motion capture presented on a Metahuman inside Unreal Engine using Facewear and Vicon

Joseph Jefferies

Game Ready Fantasy Character

A game-ready fantasy elf warrior character blending realism and fantasy, built with industry-standard techniques for real-time use.

Jennifer Martin

Game Ready Realistic D&D Character Model

A game-ready, realistic D&D fantasy character produced for a mock art test at university.

Isabel Simons-Boswell

Gandalf Realistic Recreation (Ian McKellen likeness Project)

Realistic character project Inspired by Lord of the Rings movie. Depicting the likeness of the actor Ian McKellen (Gandalf).

Cristian Cuciuc

GoRilla, Speed Based Platformer

GoRilla is a speed-based platformer with destructible elements.

Alexander Collis

Gravity Arena

'Gravity Arena' is a sandbox-style gameplay experience in which players are invited to demonstrate their mastery of gravity and progress through a series of demanding environmental puzzles.

Benjamin Gibbons

Grit and Glory - An alternative fantasy role-playing game.

A dual sided fantasy Tabletop RPG that can flip between dark and gritty, or empowering heroic fantasy to suit the wants of its players.

Dayo Adebajo

Guilty Gear Style Character: Zombie Martial Artist

Guilty Gear Style Character created by following Arc System Works design & character modelling process

Zenith Winterbottom

Hawaiian Weapons (Sea of Thieves Fan Art)

Hawaiian Weapons in the style of Sea of Thieves

Claudia-Noemi Vaduva

Helborg, a Souls-like game prototype.

Thomas Craven

Helldivers 2 Inspired Weapon Customization

Trinity Smith

Hero Prop Diorama - National Cash Register [No 542] Series 500

National Cash Register [No. 542] Series 500, PBR workflow Rendered in Unreal Engine 5 with supporting diorama props.

Kieron Rutter

Hollowborn

Hollowborn is a souls-like combat system with a dark fantasy setting. It includes a complete and challenging boss fight against the Undying Zealot.

Oliver Scott

How can in-game narratives be made more impactful through environments?

A research project that aims to understand how audio design, lighting and level design can create an impactful narrative in games.

Tom Harriman

How is Speedrunning perceived as a viable subgenre of esports?

A 24 hour speedrun marathon supporting Macmillan Cancer Research to explore the correlation between speedrunning and esports.

Eion Tongue

Imprisoned Hunter

A Marvel Rivals stylised Trandoshan Bounty Hunter, who was imprisoned by the Empire for his crimes.

Jonathan Wareing

Industrial Outpost

This is an environment Project that has a focus on some technical tools designed in Houdini to help with iteration.

Ethan Moorfield

Japanese Temple Environment

A Japanese temple environment built in Blender and rendered in Unreal Engine, featuring modular assets, dynamic lighting, and foliage to evoke a peaceful, immersive atmosphere rooted in tradition.

Dan Coleman

Jerry's Retro Platformer

'Jerry's Retro Platformer' is an old-school stylised platformer collectathon vertical slice prototype.

Sarah Abbas

Johnny Trojan Horse's Rootin' Tootin' Journey to the Centre of the CPU

This project is an 8-bit 2D platformer inspired by NES games like Super Mario Bros and Mega Man made by 1 person with an emphasis on level design.

Reece Dickens

King Teapot and the Armored Doll

Two fully textured 3D character models inspired by concept art from ArtStation.

Pedram Amini

KNOWE - character / creature concept and vis dev project

A visual development project centred around redesigning and creating races, characters, and creatures through the combination of unique mythologies.

Mieszko Szymanski

Kriegork - The Fungal Tyrant

Monster Hunter creature inspired by Warhammer 4k Orks

Aryan Shahdadi

L0ST - Short Film Rendered In Unreal Engine 5

A short film that shows skills and knowledge in using multiple Software's and Technology - MOCAP Directing, UE5, Motion Builder, Maya

Douglas Leigh

LEGO Star Wars Remastered

A recreation of the classic LEGO Star Wars game, showcasing gameplay mechanics, UI design, and technical systems developed from the ground up.

WILLIAM COOK

Magic Step - An Immersive Tutorial

A tutorial for a 2D platformer that uses minimal text to create an immersive experience.

Daniel Burley

Mazdamundi Recreation in Total War Warhammer's Art Style

A recreation of the character Mazdamundi from the total war warhammer franchise, rendered in unreal engine

Connor Chaplin

Miniboss Sci-fi Hunter

Scifi corporate hunter miniboss

Rafal Blama

Mixing Media

A Dating Sim Visual Novel where every character is an art medium come to life! Meet the colourful cast of characters: Pastelle, Bloom and Spray!

Mei Li Rumsby

Monster 'Mockumentary' Creature Concepts

Believable creature concepts based on classic movie monsters.

Heath Penman

My Gameplay Sandbox – UE5 Multi-Character Prototype

A UE5 prototype evolving into a gameplay-focused project.

Paul Wong

One Man's Trash

Character Concepts for a 3D co-op platformer about small creatures on a rescue mission

Lauren Williams

Outpost Zero - Grid Based Space Station Builder With A Tech Tree & Minigame

A grid-based space station builder where the player expands and manages their station's resources using modules unlocked through a tech tree, to help survive an asteroid minigame.

Michal Sukenik

Overwatch Inspired Stylized Character - Phantasma

Overwatch Inspired Stylized Character - Phantasma - Created for Live Brief and Employability Module

Alicia Walton

Part of my Portfolio Collection

Crafting immersive 3D realistic environments with passion and precision, my portfolio showcases professional artistry that brings virtual worlds to life with stunning detail and authenticity.

Jingtao Gao

Past Lives - Character Development Project

A character development project set around 66 million years ago, where you experience a short period of time in 3 individuals lives, a Mercuriceratops, Ypupiara and Hatzegopteryx.

Ruby Walker

Physically Based Rendering in DirectX 12

A custom deferred rendering engine written in C++ using DirectX 12, implementing physically based materials.

Toby Kleinsmiede

Pixels to Perfect: The Multi-Million Dollar Virtual Economy in CS

This study examines the emergence and dynamics of a player-driven virtual economy for in-game “skins” in Counter-Strike, treating these digital items as tradable assets whose prices fluctuate similarly to stocks.

Haowei Wang

Planet Gemini - The Gemini Lizard

An exploration of how to make fauna feel alive in the media! My project explores a populating creature of planet Gemini, as well as it's prey item and surrounding flora.

Abigail Arblaster

PolyKnight | A Combat Driven Souls-Like

A modular combat system inspired by Souls-like games, featuring stamina management, perfect blocks, i-frames, guard breaks, combo attacks, and a boss fight—designed as a foundation for a full game.

Jacques Gwenin

Post-Apocalyptic Abandoned Arizona Desert Motel

A walkable Post-Apocalyptic Arizona Desert envrionment, with Motel point of interest.

Joseph Locke

Post-Apocalyptic M4A1 Rifle with modular, scavenged attachments

This M4A1 has been reimagined with a post-apocalyptic aesthetic, featuring a unique array of scavenged attachments commonly found in the daily lives of survivors.

Nathaniel Landon

Project: Oerera

Creature Codex of an alien planet

Ayk Perera

Project:Haven

An artbook showcasing 3 character concepts that, altogether, make up a small ship crew. packed with mood pieces and key art.

Ty Davies

Quiet

'Quiet' is a game designed to study the differing ways users respond to games with and without audio.

Amelia Hamari-Filby

Ravoroth: Fortnite Inspired

Original character created to fit the Fortnite art style.

Jacob Tucker

Rax Vorn, Mandalorian fire team leader

A stylised custom Mandalorian creation, Rax Vorn blends original lore, detailed armor design, and rich storytelling into a unique Star Wars-inspired character project crafted in response to a live brief.

George Horwood

Realistic Fantasy Orc

Creating a game ready character for a realistic Fantasy RPG game.

Skye Smith

Sci-Fi Environment - The Nebulith

Ryan Cooper - 3D Environment Art - The Nebulith

Ryan Cooper

Simulated Crowd Audio

Dynamic crowd sounds created in realtime utilising granular synthesis! Showcased using a simple Rugby kick minigame in Unreal Engine 5.

Jonathan Davidson

Simulating Personality and Emotion in AI Agents

A simulation exploring the effect of personalities and emotions on agent behaviours within an AI population using the OCEAN Personality Model and Plutchik's Emotion Model.

Kacey Halstead

Smart AI Chess Board

A 3D printed smart chessboard with LED lit squares, real-time move indication and built-in AI, bridging physical interaction with digital gameplay using Arduino and Raspberry Pi.

Gabriela Maczynska

Soliloquy of the Sunken

A dive into various formula of Narrative Delivery and ensuring an exposition which hooks the player.

Luke Anderson

Soulbound

Development of concepts for an avian inspired character and creature duo, for an adventure-style game.

Georgia Montague-Smith

SpeedWayFrenzy

A futuristic racing game that pits player talent with vehicle control against intricate AI racing algorithms. Can you survive the race track frenzy?

Adam Pieretti

Spellslingers - Developing A Modern Pedometer Game Without Reliance on GPS

A pedometer-based real life walking game about walking a magical wasteland to learn the secret magic of powerful spirits, where strange encounters are commonplace!

(Richard) John Stevens

Spiritbreach

Spritbreach is a narrative driven game that blends in-depth storytelling with environmental puzzles, combat and discovery. Players follow Rowena and Soran as they unravel the dark mystery of Hollowmoor.

Abigail Sutton

Staggered, Creature and Environment Concepts

Creature and Environment concepts for an RPG Horror that explore interesting design and visual storytelling.

Aimee Hay

Stakes on the game: Exploring the influence betting has on spectatorship

A research on the current views of gambling/betting and how that influences spectatorship and viewing behaviour within esports communities.

Kevin Pan

Stamped: Post Office Resource Management Game

Stamped: A Steampunk Post Office Game! (Concept Art)

Isabella Salgado Xanthakis

Star Wars Battlefront 2 Inspired Game Ready Assets

Star Wars Game Ready Assets

Jake Woodward

Stay Strong - A Narrative Experience

Stay Strong is a narrative experience featuring touching subject matter and viewing text-based memory scenes in a strange-but-familiar environment.

Joseph Wild

Strika Tempo

Strika Tempo is a high-energy fighting game with a strong emphasis on fighting style and abilities. It has an emphasis on dynamic poses and motion. With clear differentiation between characters.

Aaron Gilbert

Stylised Ancient Ruins Encampment

Stylised ancient ruins encampment

Jake Scothern

Stylized game art styles using Shaders in Unreal Engine 5

To recreate stylized game art styles with shaders in Unreal Engine 5 to show the value they add to a game's art style, visual memorability and artistic personality.

Michael Solomou

Sumo Digital Art Test

This project was given to me as an Art Test from Sumo Digital.

Emma Clark

Sumo Digital Art test - Stampede Racing Royal - Shark Bait

Character and Vehicle Concept for Sumo Digitals game Stampede: Racing Royale.

Joel Smallshaw

System - ANOMALY, An RTS prototype

Real Time Strategy prototype set in space featuring custom 3D A* Pathfinding, formation movement and multiple factions with unique playstyles.

Tamer Sioufi

Szymon's City Builder Tutorial

A city builder tutorial level created entirely in UE5 using blueprint with the goal of introducing new players into the city builder genre.

Szymon Szymanski

The Assassin, Flix Interactive Live Brief Project

A game-ready female assassin in a fantasy world, crafted with design and storytelling inspiration from Baldur’s Gate 3 and The Witcher.

Antony Garbett

The Castle - 3D Environment Scene

A game ready 3d Environment presented in Unreal Engine 5. Inspired by Studio Ghibli's films and the 'Soulsborne' games.

Noah O'Grady

The City Below - Luger

Optimised Game-ready Asset/Weapon Created For The Collaborative Game, "The City Below"

Cameron Verdi

The Creation of the Mesorites

Creating an auxiliary race for the T'au, a faction within the Warhammer 40k universe.

Philippe Botten

The Harbor

Game-ready 3D harbor environment based on the concept art by Max Suleimanov.

Rhiannon Chamberlain

The Lich - Realistic Character

A fully animated game-ready Lich character, fit for a fantasy-themed video game.

Avery Chamberlain

The Lost Mansion - Exploration Based Horror

An Exploration based adventure set in a haunted mansion, where looking at everything is key to discovery.

Hayley Holford

The Oni (Character and Creatures)

Character in the style of dead by daylight Realtime Rendered in Unreal Engine 5

Joel Hill

The Sporadic Puzzles

A puzzle minigame system, for AAA Action-Adventures titles, fun for action-fans and puzzle-fans alike.

Raphael Colucci

Thumbelina : Thrips on Violets - Character Design FYP Project

An adaptation of 'Thumbelina' set in 1930's Hollywood

Elwyn Renwick

Tormand: Father of Vengeance - Character Art Presentation

Tormand is a real-time fantasy based character. Sculpted with Purpose, Retopologised for Animation, Textured for Realism and Posed for Vengeance.

Dan Walker

Underfolder AKM Customized

A heavily used AK brought into the modern ara through attatchments

Jack Mavar

Usability First Terrain Generation Tool

A usability first terrain generation and editing tool created through 4 rounds of user testing and development sprints.

Cameron Dawes

VEX – Stylised 3D Character

VEX is a game-ready, stylised 3D character inspired by Valorant’s art style; designed with a full production pipeline from concept to final render.

Suki Tam

Vice & Virtue

A randomly generated detective game with each case not each feeling the same as the other.

Ethan Whiteley-Bollard

Virtual Baby Seal Pet Unity Mobile Game

Seal Pet Unity Mobile Game

Jaclyn Moorhouse

Vivienne: Dragon Age inspired 3D Character

A fully game-ready, semi-realistic elf-demon antagonist inspired by Dragon Age, created using industry-standard tools and techniques.

Alisa Mankovska

Voxel Rendering for Destructible Models

Vulkan artefact showcasing voxelised 3D models to showcase Voxels ability as a primitive for destructibility.

Aiden Knight

Water, I Beg

Manage the scarce resource of clean water, and its allocation to the city's desperate citizen or choose to sell it to gangsters for personal profit. The choice is yours.

Teo Qerimi

Wayfinder Inspired Pine Forest Campsite

An abandoned hunter’s campsite, recreated in the art style of the game Wayfinder, set within a pine forest during early spring.

Matus Krovina

WORD RACE

Word Race is a mobile game developed in Unreal Engine 5 in which the player aims to correctly guess a random word to race their car around a track!

Dylan Buchanan

World of Warcraft Inspired Environment

A World of Warcraft inspired environment, made in 3dsmax, ZBrush, Substance Painter, and Unreal Engine.

Harvey Powell

WW2 Normandy Beach's - Post Battle

The beach was quieter now—no gunfire, no screams—just the steady hum of waves brushing against the shore and Charred wrecks of landing craft still littering the sand.

Oliver Beeston

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