My name is Mike Simpson, and I have just completed a Game Development Masters at Newcastle University. This is my website, and here you will find information about me, my passions and the projects that I have been working on.

04/04/10 :: Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone. Hope you all got lots of chocolately goodness. I got a bad cough and had to wait 24 hours before i could watch the new episode of Dr Who, but it was still nice to have some time off. I even managed to bring myself to complete the first Assassin's Creed before moving on to the second one, which is actually good.

A lot has happened in the last few months. I'm still have a job, which is nice, I've had a chance to work on a few of the company's other projects too, which is interesting. I'm probably not supposed to give away too much information about it though, so I'll shut up...

I'm in the process of refactoring much of my code. The current objective is to tidy up and optimise as much of the code from my Pong game as possible and move it into a shared project. This will then allow me to improve my other games by using the shared code, and build newer games much more quickly. However, even when this is finish and i re-publish the games, the cosmetic differences will be hardly noticable, so I will try and find something else to keep the site interesting in the mean time. I am also changing the pong game into a more interesting game, with a much better title! Details will follow soon.

I have spent some time working on the 'reviews' part of the site. I wanted to praise some of the good games that I have played and rant about the terrible ones. Additionally, I have added a series of at-least-vaguely-game-related rants, that might turn into a regular blog feature. This stuff is still in development, but feel free to check out what is there so far.

In the My Games section you will find examples of some of the games and applications that I have produced. Click the logos below to check some of them out. More detailed infromation about the games can be found in the Portfolio.

     

The Artwork section contains some of the graphics and artwork that I have produced. This includes concepts, logos and textures for games, as well as a collection of digital paintings.

       

There are also Reviews of some of the games that I have played. I have applied some of my gaming knowledge from over the years to write honest reviews of some of the games that I have played. <UNDER CONSTRUCTION>

• To for more information about me, and to download my CV, click here.
• To view my game portfolio online, click here.
• To contact me, or for an uncensored version of my CV, contact me
• A complete map of this website can be found here.