HYPERFICTIONS

 

About Me
My name is Andrew Thomas, i'm a 3d modeller, designer and scripter working for Frontier Developments.
This page contains several of my most recent commercial and personal projects.
Feel free to E-Mail me at


 

 

 

 

COMMERCIAL WORK

 

These are commercial projects that I have been involved in.

Soaked!

LOSTWINDS
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TYPE : Commercial Project
STATUS : Published
JOB POSITION : Design and audio support
DEVELOPER : Frontier Developments
PUBLISHER : Frontier Developments
PLATFORM : Wii (WiiWare)

Frontier's first WiiWare title - a playful platform adventure game.
"LostWinds is an enchanting adventure bursting with new gameplay ideas that embrace the innovative controller of the Wii - it puts the power of the wind in the palm of your hand."

Soaked!

THRILLVILLE
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TYPE : Commercial Project
STATUS :
ThrillVille : Published
ThrillVille Off the Rails : Published
JOB POSITION : Programmer
DEVELOPER : Frontier Developments
PUBLISHER : LucasArts
PLATFORM : PS2, PSP, XBox (& Wii, 360 and PC for TV OTR)

Amusement park action for consoles - with a range of park building activities, peep interaction, and multiplayer minigames.

Soaked!

ROLLERCOASTER TYCOON 3
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TYPE : Commercial Project
STATUS :
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 : Published
RCT3 - Soaked! : Published
RCT3 - Wild! : Published
JOB POSITION : Artist / Designer
DEVELOPER : Frontier Developments
PUBLISHER : Atari
PLATFORM : PC

Originally released late in 2004 - check out Atari's site (www.atari.com) for more details and screenshots.

Curse of the Wererabbit

WALLACE AND GROMIT
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TYPE : Commercial Project
STATUS :
Wallace and Gromit in Project Zoo : Published
Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Wererabbit : Published
JOB POSITION : In-house tester
DEVELOPER : Frontier Developments
PUBLISHER : BAM! / Konami
PLATFORM : Playstation 2, XBox, Gamecube, PC

Frontier's collaboration with Aardman continues as developer for it's Wallace and Gromit titles.

Dog's Life

DOG'S LIFE
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TYPE : Commercial Project
STATUS : Published
JOB POSITION : In-house tester
DEVELOPER : Frontier Developments
PUBLISHER : Sony
PLATFORM : Playstation 2

Aiming for a broad audience, Dog's life is an all-new 3D action-adventure game that invites kids to experience a day in the life of a dog. Players are encouraged to wander around at their leisure, interacting with a wide variety of both animal and human non-player characters, and using the game's "Smellovision" to seek out hidden challenges and items.

Wordwars and Fizzwizzle

INDEPENDENT GAME BETA TESTING
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TYPE : Independent Development
My Tribe , by Grubby Games
The Amazing Brain Train!, by Grubby Games
Professor Fizzwizzle, Molten Mystery
, by Grubby Games

FizzBall, Created and released by Grubby Games
Professor Fizzwizzle, Created and released by Grubby Games
Word Wars, Released at Game Thoughts by Atomic Monks
Once, Twice, Thrice, by APE Interactive
JOB POSITION : Beta tester
PLATFORM : Various

In my spare time I help independent developers with technical advice and testing. I also contribue information and resources for hobby developers to the game programming wiki site.

 

 

 

FINISHED WORK

 

These projects have been finished recently.

Retribution 5 and Collective
POV

UNIVERSITY WORK
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TYPE : Project Work (exhibition) and Proof of Concept pieces
STATUS : Completed

I have written a number of computer games for projects during my
two degrees, notably :
Retribution 5 - a 10 level scrolling shoot-em-up game for one or two players, including nearly 10 minutes of rendered video, and music from twelve artists. The project represented the university at the New Designers exhibition in London (2000) running on a modified PC.
Collective - Playable proof of concept work for a complex AI-driven game. Teams of drones under the control of core systems, working together to com pete for information and resources.
POV - This and other VRML projects were tech demos for a variety of atmospheric effects in 3D environments.

 

 

 

CURRENT WORK

 

Work on these projects is currently in progress.

poIng
poIng
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TYPE : Full Game (freeware)
STATUS : In Development

A mix of space invaders and pong for one to four players. Use a variety of weapons to direct the invading alien forces towards the other player's worlds while protecting your own.

 

 

 

COLABORATIVE WORK

 

I am part of a team working on these independent projects.

Spaced Out !

SPACED OUT !
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TYPE : Full Game (freeware)
STATUS : In Development

Spaced Out - The space battle game that is simple to learn yet difficult to master. It's addictive (you've been warned!) It has (or will have) single player and net play in simple, RPG and team battle modes.


'Hyperfictions.com', Andrew Thomas 2009Tertial