FINN TRUMAN
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Projects
Projects I have either worked on at university and college or in my spare time, either through interest or as part of a game jam.
The Write to Publish
Unity C#, mixture of 2D and 3D
Team of 4
Arcadey fishing game
Player defined difficulty, global difficulty increases with every level
Level-to-level upgrades
The Forgotten Four
Ludum Dare 43, made in 78 hours from scratch
Theme: Sacrifices Must Be made
GameMaker 2
3-person team: programmer, designer, artist
Darkest Dungeon inspired combat order (combatants are arranged into ranks)
4 characters, 4 abilities each
After every level, a character has to die and becomes a spirit. Spirits have 3 abilities
9 status effect
3 levels of 4 fights, plus a final boss
Helicopters and Locusts
Made in a few hours to show at a school presentation to encourage children into starting game development
GameMaker 2
Increasing difficulty
Mouse aim independant from helicopter movement
Kobold's Lair
University of Portsmouth 5 day 2018 game jam
Unity3D C#
Team of 3. I was lead programmer, particle effects and AI
Competitive PvPvE, points based twin-stick-spellslinger
Five spells to choose from before playing
Movement and aiming are independant
Different spell effects (explosion, invisibility, speed boost and more)
Fluid camera follow
Jim Doesn't Care About Space
Ludum Dare 38, made in less than 48 hours from scratch
Theme: A Small World
Visual Studio SDL2 C++, with Mixer and TTF extension libraries
Made in a team of two, I was the sole programmer
Instance and destruction lists
Lambda expressions
Text file scripting to generate the level and coin positions
Assets saved into an object pool
Basic multi-threading
Animation, sound and music
Circle and atan2 calculations to keep Jim gravitating and orientated towards the planet
Parallax scrolling
Magus Demonata
Mini Ludum Dare 62, though I have worked on it more since. Collective 3 weeks of work.
Theme: Final Boss. Game takes place at the end; the "New Game" option in the main menu deliberately doesn't work
GameMaker: Studio
State machines
Home made fluid, dynamic platforming engine; double jumps, wall jumps and wall runs which can all be chained together
Invincibility frames
Boss fight with attack patterns
Programmed animation (eg.: some of the boss's animations, the bouncing knife and the flickering candle in the menu)
Custom particles using GameMaker's particle engine (blood spray, rock fragments)
Basic lighting engine
Variable sound volume
Outsourced music
