Barrie-George Davies

01 · Unity · C#

Monkey Business

Synopsis

A third-person 3D platformer set on the savannah. Play as a monkey and race through three stages of jumps, moving platforms, collectables, checkpoints, and enemies. Collect bananas to raise your score, pick up extra lives when you can, and watch your stamina while sprinting. Patrols, a graph-patrolling boss, and shooting enemies try to knock you off course. Touch a checkpoint to save progress. Fall too far or run out of lives, and it is game over. Difficulty is chosen from the main menu before each run.

Project brief

A game development module requiring a complete 3D platformer: menus, difficulty, level flow, scoring, lives, checkpoints, and enemy behaviour, delivered as a playable build.

Role and contribution

Sole developer. I was the main programmer and 3D artist: gameplay systems, three levels, menus, difficulty, checkpoints, scoring, enemy logic, and the majority of the 3D modelling, including the player character.

Tools

Unity and C#.

02 · Unreal Engine · C++

Grove Defence

Synopsis

A jungle tower defence game. Raiders march the paths toward a central tree. Spend resources to place defenders, buy upgrades, and keep the grove standing. Each run builds a new map and a Grove Chronicle: a grove name, omen, and wave flavour seeded with the terrain. Waves grow harder as you upgrade, so gold does not make the raid easy.

Project brief

A game development module requiring a complete tower defence game: pathing, placement, economy, upgrades, wave scaling, and a generated world, delivered as a playable Unreal build.

Role and contribution

Sole developer. I was the main programmer and 3D artist: tower defence systems in C++, procedural map and chronicle generation, combat economy, user interface, and the 3D modelling used in the grove.

Tools

Unreal Engine and C++.

03 · Unity · C#

Seeds of Change

Synopsis

A farming simulator in which the choices you make shape both your survival and your community’s. In a village facing a food crisis, you farm through changing seasons, weather, drought, and pests, then face the same question at every harvest: feed your family, or feed the community. Neither answer comes without a cost.

Project brief

A game design project exploring systems design and player choice: seasonal farming, resource pressure, and the tension between personal survival and communal care, delivered as a playable prototype.

Role and contribution

Lead 3D artist, working with David Barker. I modelled the majority of the 3D assets in the farm, market, and village, supporting the systems and narrative the team built in Unity.

Tools

Unity and C#.

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04 · Unity · C#

Bushveld Brothers

Synopsis

A conservation game rooted in ubuntu, the idea of humanity towards others at the heart of much African thought. You play as Barries, who joins a brotherhood of rangers. They see themselves as protectors of animals and of African heritage. Patrols cross the bushveld: read human and animal spoor, free animals from snares, and capture poachers before time runs out.

Project brief

A weekend game jam. The brief was to ship a complete, themed prototype in a few days, with shared art, design, and code under a hard deadline.

Role and contribution

Lead 3D artist. I modelled the majority of the 3D assets used in the jam build, working alongside David Barker, Tiyah Singh, and Jamie-Lee Davies.

Tools

Unity and C#.