Projects - University of Staffordshire GradEX

Games Design

Affordance and Narrative focused Level Design

A level created around Level Design Techniques and Narrative beats. Guidance, pacing and flow are key.

Tyler Cobden

Archon Veil - Creating diverse combat encounters within a 2D space

This project is about creating diverse combat encounters within a 2D space.

Dylan Alder-Byrne

Balancing Action & Exploration

Alternating high-intensity combat with puzzle-filled safe zones, this action game prioritizes total player immersion, replacing traditional cutscenes with deep environmental storytelling seamlessly embedded directly into the world’s design.

Avinash Kadali

Balancing Challenge: A Study on Visible vs. Invisible Player Assistance

I created a platformer to prove how the visibility of assistance effects players, while proposing solutions for future implementation of assistance in games.

Ryan Lusty

BloodySepulchre - Games Design Project by Oliver Binks

Fast-paced retro fps action.

Oliver Binks

Brick Painter

A brick material painting system, built for artists.

Gian Subrt Holly

Cheating AI: Designing Adaptive Opponents Through Player Psychology

A Unity research project exploring how partially cheating AI affects player trust, fairness, challenge, and emotional engagement through adaptive gameplay and player psychology.

Hussnain Ali

Circus Baby's Rental Nightmare

Circus baby's rental nightmare is a horror game where the player has to survive until a certain amount of time to complete the game.

Thomas Owen

Controller Clash

Controller Clash is a head-to-head platform fighting game which has 4 characters, specially designed around the respective controllers used to pilot them. There is: GameCube, Bongos, Wiimote, and N64.

Liam Burns

Detective Prototype

Step into the role of a detective and investigate crime scenes, gather evidence and piece together every clue through a fully interactive case board deduction system.

Jacob Baker

Dockside Drift

Dockside Drift is a fast paced racing game that I developed for my final major project! Check it out here & find links to all of my other projects too.

Toby Morgan

Dragons Fortress

A mystery about a long forgotten kingdom.

Charles Warner-Patton

Dungeon Diving

An underwater framework, navigate the depths and fight in turn based strategy combat.

Matthew Reuss

Dynamic Difficulty System (DDS)

To change gameplay based on the player's gameplay and skills.

Leo Clarke

Empty Rooms

Empty Rooms is a short psychological narrative game where the player explores a quiet house over several days, slowly uncovering the truth behind his wife’s disappearance through atmosphere, environmental storytelling.

Ethan Bashforth George

Faith and Fallacy

New St. Angelica has gone silent and you have been sent to find out why. But what secrets will you find, and how do they connect to this mystery?

Hazel Mackenzie

Familiar - A Dying Light Custom Level

Explore an abandoned hotel, collect loot and find a kid’s beloved plushie in this Dying Light custom level that showcases tutorialisation, quest design and player guidance.

Evie Oldham

Favelinha - WIP 5v5 Multiplayer Map

Work In Progress 5v5 Counter Strike 2 Map set in the Favelas of Rio. Creating BOPE style defense through map design.

Armando Ritter E Silva

Gimmick Healer Class Design for MMORPGs

Gimmick Healer Class Design for World of Warcraft and other MMORPGs inwhich to heal allies, you damage yourself. Large GDD covering balance considerations and benefits to the gimmick.

Alfie Lee

Grit&Glory: A Duel-sided TTRPG.

A duel-sided TTRPG

Joseph Etheridge

Hollow Rooms

Cheris Quessou

Intuitive Onboarding

A 3D Metroidvania vertical slice

Daniel Ibironke

Medieval Combat UI

Designed a stylized combat UI for a single-player turn-based strategy game, combining medieval and post-apocalyptic aesthetics while balancing visual identity, usability, and player readability within Unreal Engine 5.

Harry Guzenda

Mystique - A Language Learning Voice Recognition Framework

Mystique is an exploration of the potential of video games as a Language Learning mechanism with a focus on conversation, pronunciation and vocabulary acquisition.

Isaac Williams

Operation market square: search and destroy map

Operation market square A police training operation turned into a real situation with criminal organisation trying to blow up the market, what side of the operation will you be on?

Ben Laundon

Phobos - A Split-Screen Showcase

Phobos explores new ways in which split-screen can be used within games.

Jacob Connolly

Pioneer --- a deck-building shooter rogue-like game

Shooters and cards. Uses cards strategically, maneuver through bullets and overcome strong unbeatable foes.

Shui Lun Mo

Private Sci-f-eye: A First-Person, Stylized Noir Sci-fi Detective Adventure

A classic detective game with colliding eras, environments and themes of sci fi and noir, can our detective use gadgets from each theme to solve the case?

Joshua Farrow

Prodeus Level - Deep Storage

Doom-Inspired custom level for the game Prodeus

Eiran Keating

Project A.T.L.A.S.

Project A.T.L.A.S. is a simulation game demo that gives you the the hands on experience of piloting a mech with a focus on game feel, interesting mechanics and control.

Alex Smith

Project Crepuscular

A simple to use weather and day night cycle system for Unreal Engine 5

Harvey Franklin

Protocol Shatter

A fully destructible UE5 arena using Chaos systems to eliminate static environments and enhance player immersion through reactive, physics-based gameplay.

Harshiv Pankhania

Refractions: A Game designed at exploring player attachment

A narrative game based on a research project looking at how player-character relationships impact narrative decision making.

Gideon Doe Bokomi

Saturate - Game Design

Experience an unravelling narrative through a greyscale lens - where colour is used to tell character stories.

Thomas Mann

Sense of Stealth (Blind Accessibility Showcase)

An action-stealth showcase of blind accessibility solutions, including spatialised binaural audio cues, dynamic free-aiming systems, and a design language of varied haptic intensities.

Alex Briggs

Stylised Medieval House

A stylised medieval house, inspired by medieval architecture and fantasy-like structure. This project explores different shapes and wooden structures to create a cosy medieval home.

Daniel Goncalves Silva

Team Fortress 2 Capture the Flag map - Hojutsu

A Team Fortress 2 King of the Hill map set in a Japanese Castle with multiple lanes and levels to play around.

Marquisse Trinidad

The Forgotten Front

A narrative experience set in a war torn city.

Corey Beech

The Last City

fight and Protect the final city on this planet

Sean Wilkes

The Remainders (Choice-Based Narrative Game)

A narrative, choice-based game that focuses on realistic dialogue, fleshed out characters, impactful choices through an NPC opinion system and bodybuilding to deliver an engaging experience!

Jaime Harley

Troublr in Paradise - A Noir detective game

An overworked detective avoids his failing marriage by working obsessively. Forced by the Police Chief, he must solve one more case before returning home and facing his problems.

Alfie Brookes

Zeb's Orbit

A 3D platformer that uses custom gravity to traverse space and orbit planets.

Toby Smith

Zombie SRPG

An SRPG project featuring a full developed combat system and a narrative told through interaction over traditional cutscenes.

Alfie Cordon

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