Ethan Bruins

Created in 4 days for Community Game Jam. Team consisted of 3 programmers, 1 artist and 1 sound engineer.

I was responsible for scripting the Inventory and Shop systems. I also helped create the shader for the screen transitions.

This projects source code can be found on Github

This was created as part of my Final Major project during my 3rd year of University. This tool was used to create puzzles in the game These Lands.

During this project, I learnt a lot about editor scripting and have used the knowledge in future projects

Within the itch.io page, you can find videos explaining the tools and puzzles.

This game was created in conjunction with VR Puzzle Tools. I was responsible for all programming and Unity implementation.

This game is a VR Adventure Puzzle game built in Unity. It has had over 1,500 downloads on itch after being put into a Black Lives Matter Bundle. On Steam, the game has sold over 100 units.

The final mark I recieved for this game was 95/100

Bongo Beat Down was created for Global Game Jam 2019.

I had been wanting to make games with alternative controllers, so i convinced my team to use the N64 Donkey Kongas as our controller of choice.

I was responsible for:

Getting the Input working correctly in Unity

Creating a Bongo bashing mini-game

Helping rig the characters in Unity

Setting up the Game Flow

Our team consisted of 2 coders, 1 artist, 1 designer and 1 sound engineer

Tweets from the weekend:

Got our Donkey kong Bongos working in #Unity3d
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credits to @TimFitzDesign for recording#madewithunity #GGJ19 #SotonGameJam #student pic.twitter.com/t8acz76jOo

— Ethan Bruins (@bruinsee) January 25, 2019

Bongo minigame is complete (minus the graphics)#madewithunity #GGJ19 #SotonGameJam #Unity3d pic.twitter.com/6rqXKWbrvh

— Ethan Bruins (@bruinsee) January 26, 2019

Over the weekend, @do_russell, @TimFitzDesign, @ClarkMelodies, James Redler and I created a bongo brawler for Global Game Jam at #SotonGameJam.
Check it out here: https://t.co/62jSLLPVHM
Below is a little preview of how it was played at the jam#MadeWithUnity #Unity3D #GGJ19 pic.twitter.com/oicKdzIJ7j

— Ethan Bruins (@bruinsee) January 31, 2019

Draumskrok is a first person rogue like game, controlled by your voice.

Use commands such as move, reload, shoot and stop to make your way through the level.

This game can be played entirely with your microphone, or can be played with a combination of the WASD keys and your microphone

This game was created in 4 days for the Solent Winter Game Jam. The theme was dreams

I was the sole programming on this project. I utilized a speech api to convert speech to interactions in game

This was created for a DirectX 11 assignment at University. We were tasked with creating a playable demo around the DirectX 11 API.

Github repository: https://github.com/Westerveld/Directx11-Demo

This game was created as part of a Game Design Module at University. It's a 1v1 game where you play as ragdoll monkeys swinging from branch to branch, trying to pick up as many bananas as possible. I was responsible for:

Swinging Mechanics

Banana Pickups

End screen cutscene

All of the Art except for a couple of pieces of UI

This article was created with Josh Naylor while working at Unity Technologies. We were asked to give a tutorial on importing assets into Unity.

The article can be read here.

While working at Unity, I produced this blog post to highlight the 2D features within Cinemachine. I created the project from scratch to show off the features that i talked about in the blog post.

While working on this blog, I coordinated with the Cinemachine team to ensure information was correct at time of publishing.

While making this project I was able to experiment with using various types of cameras.

I also used the same project at Unite Berlin 2018 for a mini-booth talk on Cinemachine 2D.

You can read the blog here.

While on in my internship at Unity, I had decided I wanted to look into procedural generation within the editor.

I started focusing on procedural 2D levels and created this project. I then turned that project into a 2 part blog post.

This first blog post focused on top layer generation using procedural generation methods like Random Walk and Perlin Noise.

The second blog post focuesd on cave generation using algorithms such as Random Walk, Cellular Automata and Perlin Noise

Part 1

Part 2

Created a project that uses the Unity Tilemap system to procedural generate maps. Was made public on the Unity Technologies GitHub

Algorithms included:

• Perlin Noise
• Random Walk
• Cellular Automata
• Directional Tunnel

Was later used in a two part blog post

Access the source code

On June 2nd and 3rd 2018, Playing Field hosted an event at the Unity offices.

The idea was to have kids learn about the games industry and then design a game for a bunch of developers to make. I was on a team with about 8 other people creating a Game for a kid named Sam.

His idea was to have a game where you can play as a Monkey and a Pig. The pig would be on the back of the monkey allowing you to interchange between the two characters.

A spaceman had crash landed on your planet, and you needed to help him find the pieces of his rocket so that he would take you on a vacation.

I was responsible for the art of all the characters, as well as the player controller and camera movements. The programming was done in C# and the game was created in Unity.

This game isn't available for download, but you can watch a video of it here.

Created at Global Game Jam 2018 in Hamar.

When creating this game we had the theme Transmission.

This game was created in 48 hours.  My focus was on the gameplay mechanics and the transitions between screens. The game was created in Unity using C# for programming.

Avaliable on

Itch.io

Google Play

Github (Source Code)

Programming by:

Malena Klaus

Ethan Bruins

Art by:

Nikolai Waack

Sound Effects by:

Martin Kvale

Background Music by:

Ellie Abraham

Created for a University module in 2nd year. Ending up receiving a first for the project.

For the assignment we were given part of a Renderer and Shaders for PS4. We then had to add to the Renderer and Shaders to make it fit our needs.

We also had to create a game from scratch. I chose to do a game based on pong with a few additions. These additions are:

• Trail Renderer
• Particle Effects
• Simple AI
• Controller Vibration - (for when the ball hits the players paddle)
• Changing of the Controllers LED Color depending on which side of the screen the ball was on

This project was created in C++ with Playstation 4 API.

Video playthrough

This game was originally created for the Solent Games Jam in February/March. It was originally created in 5 days.

This game won the following awards:

Best Game (Student Vote)

Best Art (Tutor Vote)

Best Audio (Tutor Vote)

We later had James Redler, redo the art and create an awesome 6ft roller banner for the game.

This game was shown at the 2017 Southampton Game Festival. Showing this game at the Game Festival gave me good experience at presenting one of my games to the general public.

We had lots of feedback which was nice to have, but decided not to continue this project as we didn't see it going anywhere.

Lagerloaf is a local multiplayer game created in 4 days by a team of 4.

This game won Best Programming and Most Fun!

The games idea was to have a multiplayer doodle jump game with powerups. I was responsible for the player controllers. This game was made in Unity.

GitHub Repository

The original idea behind this game was to make a 1v1 snake game with AI, but due to time constraints we decided to change it to be a local 1v1 game.

We received positive feedback from this game, but i have a couple of things I would of done better:

The pathing system for the catapillars didnt go off a grid, and instead went of 0.1 intervals in world space. This obviously made the game slightly harder than intended

The obstacle and fruit spawning was also quite bad. The game would sometimes spawn both objects on top of each other, making the fruit impossible to pick up. This could of been fixed by making the objects do a radius check to see if it would overlap with another object.

Created for Ludum Dare 35.

Art by James Redler

Video Playthrough

The idea behind this game was to take the theme for the GGJ and create something different.

We went really abstract on the theme and made a resource management simulator game.

I learnt a lot about the UI in Unity during this project.

This was my first time going to Global Game Jam, and I loved every minute of it.

Created for Global Game Jam 2016

Video Playthrough