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The Paddock Marketing Materials
Research All of my research can be found on my Miro board: A lot of the research that I did was done by using Pinterest. Some movie/game...
devlin-j41
May 185 min read
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The making of The Paddock
The aim of this blog post is to cover the development of my first commercial game "The Paddock". What is The Paddock? The Paddock is a...
devlin-j41
May 728 min read
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December Monthly Update
Working Retail in December. I have been working as an Assistant Manager in GAME for almost 3 years. During the Christmas period, even...
devlin-j41
Mar 7, 20243 min read
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November Monthly Update
The change from weekly to monthly updates. From creating weekly blog updates I've found that I've either not doing enough to warrant...
devlin-j41
Mar 7, 20247 min read
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Monday 16th October Week 5: Insider Test 3 & Shopify store.
TimeQuake Insider Testing Week 3 This week I took part in week 3 of the insider testing for the game Timequake. Some small updates were...
devlin-j41
Oct 30, 20236 min read
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Monday 9th October Week 4: More Portfolio updates & TimeQuake play tests.
Portfolio updates Over the last week I've worked on the rest of my website, chopping and changing how the pages for each project work and...
devlin-j41
Oct 30, 20233 min read
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Monday 2nd October week 3: Ludum Dare Submission and Insider Test 1 for TimeQuake.
This week Ludum Dare finished and we got our game submitted! Here is the link to the project on itch,io: https://notjoshuaa.itch.io/the-h...
devlin-j41
Oct 10, 20232 min read
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Monday 25th September week 2: Preparing for Ludum Dare 54
This week I got a team together, both people from the university and some from the United States! The team list is as follows: Tristan...
devlin-j41
Oct 10, 20232 min read
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Monday 18th September (Week 1) - Pub Quiz, Small projects & FMOD, University talks.
The start of the University year has been great. Most of the summer I took off so that I could get away from burnout, however I did work...
devlin-j41
Sep 26, 20234 min read
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Industry facing materials
For my industry facing materials module I must look at a specific job role and use it to create a business card, CV, portfolio, and cover...
devlin-j41
Jan 12, 20235 min read
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The Big Mobile/VR Development Blog
The aim of this blog is to show my design, thought process, production management, and teamwork throughout making a VR prototype. I am...
devlin-j41
Jan 10, 20238 min read
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Level Design Blog Week 12 - The Final Days
Narrative From the beginning of starting the pre-production, I knew that I wanted to add a narrative to my level, it just so happened...
devlin-j41
Dec 20, 20225 min read
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Level Design Blog Week 11 - Pyramid Climbing Cutscene + Level Overhaul
The Pyramid During this week I created one of my more complicated cutscenes. This cutscene is of the player climbing up the side of the...
devlin-j41
Dec 14, 20222 min read
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Level Design Blog Week 10 - The Holy Landscape Tool + Level Streaming
Landscape Tool This week I delved deep into trying to understand and use the landscape tool within UE5. I watched this video to start off...
devlin-j41
Dec 8, 20224 min read
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Level Design Blog Week 9 - Pyramid building + First Cutscene.
Pyramid For week 9 I created the Pyramid, this took me quite a while as I had to have a look around and figure out what best way to do...
devlin-j41
Dec 2, 20222 min read
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Level Design Blog Week 8 - Creating the second area/First Play Test
Underground Cave During this week I began adding to more of the level. This included adding an underground area to my "Egypt" block out....
devlin-j41
Nov 23, 20222 min read
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Level Design Blog Week 7 - Metric Gym.
During week 7 I began to test out my metric Gym. This was a level that I used to test out how big areas in my level should be, as well as...
devlin-j41
Nov 12, 20222 min read
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Level Design Blog Week 6 - Operation Cairo
During week 1 of my level design class, I began to block out my level idea. Using an existing UE5 file that was provided by the...
devlin-j41
Nov 6, 20222 min read
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A Critical Analysis of Uncharted 4.
What is Uncharted 4? Uncharted 4 is an action-adventure game (Naughty Dog, 2016/2022). The game itself is a sequel to Uncharted 3: Drakes...
devlin-j41
Oct 30, 202216 min read
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