University Game Development

Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Universe City was born from a group software project I worked on during my Computer Science degree at the University of York. Our brief was to create a game in Unity, and our team decided to build a turn-based strategy game inspired by Risk, replacing countries and armies with a deliberately light-hearted version of university life.

Players represented University of York colleges such as Halifax and Derwent, competing to capture sectors across the map and eliminate the other factions. The game supported between two and four human players. Alongside the main strategy systems, we built menus, resource displays, victory detection, and a Vice-Chancellor dressup minigame.

Go-playing Bot

Fri, 17 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The Go bot interface, including the board and move history

Monte Carlo Go Bot

One of the earliest substantial software projects I built was a Go-playing bot for my Extended Project Qualification in sixth form. I had initially planned to build a chess bot, but once I realised how well simple brute-force algorithms could perform in chess, I decided to take on a more challenging problem. I turned my attention to Go because, at the time, it was one of the few classical board games in which human players still regularly beat machines.

C#/.NET on Charlie Howlett

University Game Development

Go-playing Bot

Monte Carlo Go Bot