I received request to work on a clients project and submitted individual Action Plans, Design Documents and Invoice for the client to approve. I then completed projects to their brief, debugged/tested the work, and formatted it appropriately to be delivered. This was my largest commission, for an Indie Developer to create a mobile-friendly lit toon shader with RGBA & HSV colour space, gradient control applied over its lightmaps.
I volunteered via my Cambridge Regional College course to test the, at the time upcoming game, Planet Zoo. Throughout my time spent at the studio I learnt the QA systems that Frontier studios used to test games and applied that knowledge in order to report issues with the game. Notably I discovered and highlighted a major issue with an x-ray style shader that was rendering models incorrectly through opaque surfaces.
During this work experience, I shadowed each game development disciplines team, discussing what's involved, common practices and the relevant industry standards. This gave me a deep insight early into my development journey as to the production pipelines of games development, the suites of software/tools used within each discipline and the keys skills I need to master in order to enter the industry as a strong candidate for employment.
During this work experience, I shadowed the front-end web development team, to gain a complete overview of the industry. I was partnered with one of the developers and tasked with creating a website using HTML and CSS. This gave me experience using new suites of languages and tools that I was unfamiliar with, and taught me to be comfortable with experimentation. This eventually led to me creating this very website to showcase my work.