Gaeel Bradshaw-Rodriguez

Bridge games and products
Technical design and development of a new Online Bridge client in Unity
Maintenance and upgrades on other card games and Virtual Regatta
Continuous integration and deployment for internal Unity projects
Reverse-engineering and technical documentation of legacy projects

Game design and digital art school
Unity3D-based courses
Gameplay programming and introduction to programming
Applied game design & game tooling
Mobile, PC, and VR prototyping workshops

Video game studio
Prototype for a video game adaptation of the Blacksad visual novels
Story, cutscene, investigation and dialogue systems and mechanics
Story editing and asset integration tools
Custom shader set for a watercolour effect
The game was released in November 2019 as Blacksad: Under the Skin

Game design and management school
Gameplay programming and introduction to programming
Students ranging from 1st to 4th year
Game programming patterns, Unity3D, software architecture, Javascript
Workshop coach and jury member

Functional rehabilitation through motion-based games
Web service configuration and software development
Prototyping games intended for use in medical care
Plume is used in physical therapy sessions
Zether was released in November 2018 on Steam

A narrative mobile game inspired by Indian mythology
Created fire and flare effects that are used throughout the game to indicate progression to the player, and added flourishes to the hand-animated characters and environments
Optimised elements for better performance on lower spec devices

Practical experiments about online community and identity
Micro-scale social networks and shared computing
Experiments with decentralised tools and spaces for micro-communities

Multiplayer mini-game for the Very Very Short project by ARTE
Made in collaboration with Cosmografik
The player explores a shared world in a boat, meets other players' boats, and interacts with the magical fauna and flora of a village pond
Built a set of procedural generators, for the world and fauna animations
Built a drop-in, drop-out "massively" multiplayer system

Virtual street march connected to a set of Change.org petitions
Signatures get represented by marchers joining an ever-growing crowd
API wrapper enabling secure and quick access to Change.org data
Built a Unity WebGL app that displays the results of the petitions as a large crowd of petitioners, each with a semi-random appearance and available to be interacted with to display the message the corresponding petitioner posted to Change.org

A virtual reality guided tour powered by the Oculus Rift DK1
Created a VR navigation system and tools to aid in importing and optimising architectural models for realtime VR

Large screen sliding block puzzle game for trade shows and events
Ported game code to work on Microsoft PixelSense
Created tools for the art team to integrate new assets