Like I've said last week, the iOS conversion of Unmechanical is something that I am particularly proud of. I've been solely responsible for converting all the content to iOS and managed to get normal maps and specular working, along with color grading, fog planes, and so on at near no performance cost through various tricks. The game runs on a vanilla standard UDK, and the exact same packages and levels are used for both PC and iOS. The graphics and level of detail in the level scales down automatically on iOS, and we got different Kismet chains dependent on the platform. All of this runs 30 FPS average on an iPad2 and iPhone 4S. 40 to 50 FPS… Read More

I completely rewrote and extended my popular Basic Game UDK tutorial for the Game Developer Career Guide Fall 2012 edition. This new version has more detail, more steps, written for the latest version of the UDK, and has fully commented code. It can be viewed for free here: http://gamedeveloper.texterity.com/gamedeveloper/fall2012cg#pg1 Read More

And here is game number two that I've been working on! Press release:

Today, indie developers Talawa Games and Teotl Studios are thrilled to announce the puzzle adventure game Unmechanical, to be released August 8 2012 for PC and a couple of weeks later for iOS. Unmechanical is an award-winning 2.5D side-scroller which combines tricky puzzle solving, alluring exploration, and an engrossing atmosphere.The game had humble beginnings as a student project and since then both game and team… Read More

As promised a while ago, the first of several projects I am currently involved in! Kung Fu Superstar is an Unreal Engine martial arts game, and we've just released the anouncement trailer, along with an interview over at Eurogamer I've helped them out by polishing and beautifying all the environments in the video. Lighting,… Read More