Nick Barnett

Detective Crime Time is a top down puzzle game where you are A Detective with a magic map looking through time to find the crime.

This crime solving puzzle game has you seeing all of the crimes, at every point in time!

Follow the Criminals back, or forward to find where they hid the loot, where theyre hiding, or why they commited their crimes!

Currently in production, have created a demo that you can find below while im still working on it, or follow the journey on my blog at https://www.tumblr.com/thenickbarnett

Demo link

Download off Itch.io

Role in project

Designing the Plays

The AI system runs off set plays to know what to do during gameplay, i was one of the people who designed, tested and implimented these plays

Mechanics Feedback and Design

Worked closely with the programmers and other designers to make a game that was in line with other rugby games, and the mechanics that players were expecting

Rules Implimentation

Helped ensure the game followed the rules of Rugby Union.

QA

- Managed the QA Team, including compliance.

Rugby25 is a Rugby Union game that has just realeased into early Access, we are still working on patches and updates in line with feedback coming in. Made by Big Ant Studios

Role in project

QA

- QA testing and Compliance testing (For consoles and Steam)

Tiebreak is a Tennis game made at Big Ant Studios

Role in project

QA

- QA testing and Compliance testing (For consoles and Steam)

Cricket 24 is a Cricket game made by Big Ant Studios

Role in project

QA

- QA testing and Compliance testing (For consoles and Steam)

AFL 23 is a Australian League football game made by Big Ant Studios.

Role in project:

• Level Designer

• Mechanics Design

• Wave Creation and Editing

Shoots is a game that is a work in progress being worked on by us at Wymac Gaming.

It’s a classic shoot ‘em up game where the player shoots through waves of enemies, to fight a big boss at the end

This involved creating custom waves based on the enemies, and multiple custom levels for each enemy type, and faction chosen by the player.

Role in project:

Designer

• Level Design and creation.

• Taking testing notes and Iterating on levels.

• Running team retro’s and stand-ups

• Talking to Clients to manage expectations and work with them to make the game that they want

• Creating documents for clients to show them the plans the team has (Heres an example of the tutorial design document.)

• Organising other QA members and onboarding new QA

• Creating a Level Design/Puzzle Design document for the developers to work from.

Motion is a game that is a work in progress being worked on by us at Two Bulls for PBS

It is a 2D Jenga like stacking game with two game modes;

• Treehouse - Where the players have to put a certain number of random shapes on to their tree without them falling over to build their treehouse

• Jenga - A classic Jenga game where the players have to remove blocks without the whole structure falling over.

Role in project:

Designer

Level Design and creation.

Taking testing notes and Iterating on levels.

Creating Level Design/Puzzle Design Documents for the developers to work off of (Level Design Doc Link)

Creating the GDD and maintaining it so that the clients have a source of truth that they can refer to, and that the developers can work from so that everyone is working towards the same vision (Robot GDD Link)

Organising QA members and onboarding new QA

Working with the team to make sure no one had any blockers

Running team retro’s and stand-ups

Talking to Clients to manage expectations and work with them to make the game that they want.

Creating documents for clients to show them the plans the team have

Jet’s Rocking Robot Adventure is a game created by us at Two Bulls for PBS

It is a 2D Platformer where you navigate the level as a robot, getting bolts to unlock new parts so you can get over new obstacles.

You can play it here - https://pbskids.org/readyjetgo/games/jets-bot-builder

Role in project

• Maintaining documents (GDD, Asset lists, etc)

• Systems and mechanics Design discussions

• Reviewing bug reports and collecting the information into a feedback document

• Level Creation and Testing

Demo links

• Vive Demo

• Occulus Demo

Unveiled is a VR game currently in production.

Its a VR Archery Game, where you explore dungeons and Unveil the secrets of the mysterious cultists

Role in project

• Systems and mechanics Design

• Audio Design

• Programming

For this project we wanted to try a new medium, so we made a game for VR over 4 weeks.

It was a project between two of us, me and @mariobaronedev

It was an awesome experience and ended with our final builds reset breaking. You can play through and Enter your name into the high scoreboard, but need to close the game and reopen to reset.

If you have any form of VR and steam VR installed you can try it out here

https://thenickbarnet.itch.io/beat-ninja

Role in project

• Managing the team to keep everyone on track and working towards the same goal

• Managing the scope of the project, and re-adjusting it as we progressed. As this was the first project for most of us, working to a deadline was new to us and we had to readjust our scope quite often

• Creating levels with the assets provided by our artists

• Running stand-ups each morning

• Meeting with our Teachers to keep them up to date with our progress, pass on concerns the team had to them, or they had to the team.

For this project, I worked as the Producer/Co-Designer on our little game, Total Knockback.
With our team, Thumbs Up, we spent 2 months creating this little game. The only level we have is a little bit small, a good tutorial level. 
We worked with two artists, two programmers, and two designers, to create this little Hack n' Slash high power game.
If you would like to play it you can find it here

​https://thenickbarnet.itch.io/total-knockback

But be warned, it does require two Xbox controllers (360 or Xbox One) to play

Role in project

• Level Design

• Asset creation

For Mother Ducks, we were given a game, and a location in Melbourne, and told to make a level.
All the assets in the level, all the lighting, all the duck placement, all the post effects, EVERYTHING. We had to make everything.
Here is the Result.

A little sandbox to test creating some Mechanics. First was a grappling hook used for movement and traversing large distances. The second was to incorporate the grappling hook into combat, allowing the player to grapple enemies and throw them around like ragdolls.

This game, which I lovingly call That Slime Game

where I am creating a dungeon crawling, treasure finding, monster hunting, farming simulator.

A hodge podge of ideas packed into one to see what fun i can throw together from it.

Role in project

• Everything (Design, Programming and Art)

The Goal of this project was to create a narrative experience in a vertical slice of a game. A 60 Second snap of a game I haven't actually made yet.
This project was entirely programmed and filled with my own assets, with the exception of the dead character as we had some time constraints.