William Monk

Studio Startup

This project was my Final Major Project at University. Developed over a course of twelve weeks, I learned and implemented Unreal Engine 5's Networking systems to create an asymmetric multiplayer game.As the project was a successful endeavour over the 12-week development lifecycle, we decided to continue development and recruit others to work on the project, climbing up to a team of 55 members. Once scaled up, I became the Technical Director of the project and a feature team lead responsible for all game systems (storefront, monetisation, progression, matchmaking etc).Over the following months, I spearhead development efforts, developed onboarding and handover processes for the team of voluneer developers. Working with a foundation of Nexus Scrum, we created a process in which 8 teams of 4-8 multi-disciplined developers could carefully construct a new and improved version of what I had previously created in my University module.• Leadership • Scrum • Project Management
• BizDev • Dev Ops • GaaS
• C++ • Networking • Unreal Engine 5

Sprig & Gizmo

My final student run studio project at university, Sprig & Gizmo was our first attempt at an Unreal Engine 4 game.
During this project, I was responsible for a verity of game systems ranging from game state saving and loading to debug console commands. Outside of my main focus on game systems, I was also responsible for a number of gameplay mechanics, some parts of the game UI, and shared ownership of Character / Camera / Controls for both players.• C++ • Gameplay Systems • Unreal Engine 4
• Git • Source Control • Agile Development

DX 11 Game Engine

This project was my first attempt at learning and creating a simplistic 3D game + engine.
For this project, I wrote a verity of systems such as 3D collisions, asset loading and a flyweight pattern asset management system, input handling, and applied a verity of lighting and rendering techniques such as point lights, directional lights, ambient lighting, skybox and more.
This has been one of my personal favourite projects to work on as I thouroughly enjoy low level engine programming, and feel this is one of my strongest showcases of my low level C++ and code design skills.• C++ • DirectX • DXTK
• Object-Oriented Design • Design Patterns • Algorithms

Jelly Xperiment

At the end of my second year of University, we ran a small game jam for Solent students. Myself and four of my peers teamed up to make a game based on the theme of "United we stand, divided we fall". We chose to create a simplistic 2D puzzle platformer in which jelly cubes work together to navigate through the level.
For this game, I created the grid based movement system, UI, level system and am responsible for the game design.
My primary focus for this project was learning and improving my skills with UI/UX programming and design; I wanted the movement system to feel satisfying and be clear to the player.• C# • Unity • Game Jam
• Leadership • Rapid Development

Raycast Game Engine

This was a personal project I worked on while I had a little free time over summer between my second and third year at University. I have always been interested in how raycast based rendering techniques worked and wanted to learn by doing, in addition to improving my technical design and code architecture skills.
I also used this project as an opportunity to learn about Linux based development and cross-platform development, as I wrote and compiled the code on a Linux laptop using CMake and GCC.
The code for this project was later used as the foundation of a group project in my third year at University.• C++ • SDL2 • Alternative Rendering
• 3D Math • Object-Oriented Design • Algorithms

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