Daniel Bates Portfolio

About Me

Hi, I'm Daniel Bates, a C++/C# game developer. I have recently graduated from my MEng Computer Science for Game Development course at the University of Hull and am looking to join a studio full of talented and passionate people where I can put the skills I've developed through university to use and challenge myself to learn new things to help me grow as a programmer. I'm open to relocating anywhere within the UK.

I'm a hard-working, team-oriented programmer, with experience working with clients, such as IBM, to produce games following a SCRUM and PRINCE2 work methodology.

Check out some of my work and feel free to get in touch with via any of my provided links.

Projects

A Simple Unreal Engine 5 Shooter

A third-person shooter made in Unreal Engine 5 that I worked on as part of a Udemy course to learn Unreal Engine 5. In the course, I have covered Animation, Visual and Sound Effects, Artificial Intelligence, Blueprint & C++ and User Interfaces. I now have a great fundamental understanding of the engine and have even expanded on the game developed as part of the course to implement patrolling AI, a Main Menu and chnage input handleing to use Unreal Engine 5's Enhanced Input System.

The Unfortunate Tales Of Bow

Made in collaboration with Kieron Beadle for the Climax Studios 2023 Charity Game Jam. We had 48 hours to create a game based on the word "shift". The idea my teammate and I decided to go with was a puzzle platforming game where the player can shift their physical colour to be able to interact or pass through other coloured objects. The game was created in Unity, programmed in C# and managed using Git. I worked on the player movement, sprites, level design/creation and implementing special controls for demoing.

Rocket Simulation

A simple rocket simulation made as part of my real-time graphics, and C++ programming and design modules. In the modules, I learnt about the DirectX 11 pipeline, some advanced graphical techniques, and further develop my C++ understanding and programming skills.

Entity Component System(ECS) Game Engine

an ECS game engine, and a simple maze escape game to demonstrate the game engine. In the game, the player must collect 3 keycards which can be found in the maze and then return to the escape portal. This was a project that was part of my game architecture module in university, in this module I explored ECS design and how it is used in modern game engines such as Unity and Unreal and then implement our own ECS game engine.