It's the future and we're sending another colony ship to Mars, however the colony they establish will be a truly communist colony. In order to ensure that everyone on the ship deserves to be part of the colony, they will play this game for the duration of the long trip to Mars. It's called The Task Game. Everyone must bid for the tasks to be completed on board the ship, if you take on more tasks than others and attempt to get more glory, you will not be allowed to be part of the Red Colony on Mars. Do you have what it takes to be a good communist?

This game idea was created as my entry into the 2014 Gamasutra Game Design Challenge, a competition based on the Game Developer's Conference (GDC) Game Design challenge. The challenge was to create a game that could be played on the long trip to Mars. I won the challenge and received a pound of Martian soil simulant, if you have suggestions on what I can do with the soil, contact me

Every week for a year, between October 2009 and October 2010, I posted a new game idea. Some of these game ideas may go on to become implemented games, but the goal behind this project is to encourage creativity and quick thinking. Go to the idea project page to see all of the ideas or select one of the showcase game ideas shown below.

Gardens of Versailles A platformer game based around exploring world famous castles and their gardens.	Battle for Night Supremacy An RPG where you can play as either a vampire, werewolf, magician or human in a fight to determine who rules the night.	Run Away to the Circus A Wii game where you can do Circus tricks such as flying trapeze, juggling and more.	The Curious Case of the Tree in the Living Room A comedic mystery about what happened last night with a strange dog on the bed, a tree in the living room, half a tattoo and a note to meet "Mr Right" with no address.
Rock Band World Tour Manager Gain popularity and money as you manage a rock band and decide where they go on tour.	The Black Death A FPS style game where you hunt down victims to mark them for death during the Plague years in Europe.	Dance Troupe A dancing game where you must coordinate your moves with the other dancers.	Alpha Lion Play a lion cub to hunt and fight your way to the alpha position in your pride.

Look and feel better, without a diet, by discovering which clothes suit you. This project is a sample pitch document including an overview, business and marketing plan and a preliminary design document. The game helps women learn which clothes suit their body shape by using mini-games with characters that look like the players. Feedback is given so that women can learn and improve their clothing choices. The mini-games ask the player to pick a style disaster from style success; finish off an outfit; find out what's wrong with an outfit; or work out what body shape an outfit is best for. The Fashion Police mini-game has been implemented and is available for download (including source code), see the Fashion Police Home Page for more details. Read more on Style Rules for You...

As part of my game idea a week project (above), a story called Eternal Dream was used as the basis for a game, see game idea 7 for details. The story has been developed further by creating a character profile for a key character, Bolingo, and developing a plan for the starting acts of the game story. Read more about Eternal Dream...

As part of my masters thesis (see more information on the thesis page), I needed to create a game to test my theory of automatically generating character personalities. I worked with a programmer/artist to develop the game so that my AI code could be showcased. To work effectively with the programmer/artist, I developed a design document for the game. The design document can be downloaded as a PDF file. I worked on the A.I. for the characters and a programmer helped me implement the game interface. To see the actual implemented game, check out the demos page.