HeadStart45

Welcome to the page and portfolio for Liam McDonald-Lurch aka HeadStart45 aka HeadStart Game Development. 

The games featured here are games I have produced as part of a team from Media Design School over my three-year degree. 

Normal Man

Along with the games featured here, you can also go to https://gamesforants.itch.io/ which is the page for my final year-long project Normal Man which is being produced with the same group. It's an ultra-violent beat-em-up set in a whacky alien world, think Rick and Morty meets Midnight Fight Express. I worked on many of the major systems in the game including:

• Enemy Features and AI (Using a Hierarchical Finite State Machine and an AI Director).
• Upgrades, Unlocks, and Level Rewards.
• The overarching game scaffold, Level Loading, Saving.

For my other portfolio pieces you can go to each page below to download and play the games and find out more about the development process but I have outlined my major role in producing each piece below:

Rodent Rumble

This game is a couch co-op arena battler in the style of crash bash. Players take control of various rodents in plastic balls, rolling around the arena with the goal of smashing their opponents off the side and gaining victory.

• Multiplayer and Input
• Level Loading Structure and Mode Selection
• Lobby Features and Functionality