WeeMoji – Emoji Sticker Maker

Here’s a project I completed for WeeWorld at the tail end of last year. WeeMoji is an app for iOS and Android that lets you make your very own customised emojis and stickers featuring you! At its core is a fun avatar creator where you make a little WeeMee that looks just like yourself. The […]

Boulders and Spikes

I said in my previous post that I’d show off some more levels from my Tomb Jump game demo. So here’s a video of the game’s hardest difficult setting. While I was more than happy with my earlier level designs I thought it would be cool to try and recreate the sense of action and […]

Tomb Jump

Here’s a little game demo I bashed together at the beginning of the year. I’d been playing Mr Jump on my iPhone for an insanely long time and thought it might be a good idea to try and build my own game borrowing some of its elements. So I spent a few weeks coding Tomb […]

Lessons From Long Lost Amiga Game

From an early age, both me and my twin brother always wanted to make our own video game and have it released. It almost actually happened but unfortunately the stars didn’t align for us. In the end the whole experience put us off working together for most of our young adult lives. Here’s our story. […]

Minimum Lovable Product

Recently I had the pleasure of spending the day with George Berkowski, the founder of IceCream and author of How to Build a Billion Dollar App. Most of the time was spent discussing app design and, in particular, what features would make first release for the latest app the team was working on. At some […]

Dare the Monkey

If you’ve been following this blog from the beginning then you may remember a game I started working on called Croc & Dare. It was a collaborative effort between myself and talented illustrator, Steve Koren. Unfortunately neither of us could find the time to get it beyond the early concept stages and as the years […]

Object-Oriented Programming with Swift 2

The nice folk at Packt publishing sent me over a couple of iOS books recently to have a look over so I thought I’d write a review of each one for you guys. Today I’ll cover the first of the two books that I read: Object-Oriented Programming with Swift 2 by Gaston C Hillar. The […]

Web Assembly

There has been a lot of talk about Web Assembly, the new binary format for the web. But what exactly is it? The presentation below by Google’s Nick Bray is definitely a good place to start.

Freddy’s First Steps to Game Dev Stardom

My five year-old nephew wants to be a ‘game inventor’ when he grows up. He’s got all sorts of mad ideas for games he’s gonna make including one where Sonic the Hedgehog teams up with the robots from Pacific Rim to kick Doctor Eggman’s ass. Sounds awesome! Not one for waiting around though, wee Freddy […]

Almost There!

With Star Wars: The Force Awakens just over a week away, I thought I’d get everyone in the mood by posting a video of my X-wing Targeting Computer app that I threw together a while back. Fingers crossed JJ Abrams delivers the film I’ve been hoping for, and I can’t wait to see some X-wing […]