Academia, Level Design, and Game Development
In 2023 I was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosphy (PhD) for my work and subsequent viva voce defence of my thesis titled: Mixed Reality Level Design Workflows. My thesis expores how augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies can be used to improve existing level design workflows and to develop additional workflows …
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The term substitutional reality (SR) is used to describe systems or experiences that integrate real world objects into a fully virtual environment with varying levels of accuracy. Real world objects are matched with digital proxies that allow a developer to transport the player to a completely virtual world, such as a futuristic space ship, but …
Our LevelEd VR system was built to explore how virtual reality can assist or improve the level design process. The initial focus was on improving or assisting the level creation process for virtual reality games by allowing designers to prototype levels in VR. We felt that there would be benefits to creating virtual reality game …
LevelEd AR is an iOS application and workflow aimed at using consumer grade technology to allow users to quickly and effectively create a digital map of a space so that it can be used for serious games built with Unity. LevelEd AR is built with ARKit 1.0 and is supported on most modern iPhone and …