Servonauts is a couch co-op casual party game where you team with your friends to run a Servo. But there’s a twist, you’re also building the Servo! Build bowsers, connect pipes and merge flows to pump all of the vehicles to meet your quota! Just don’t make mistakes; the consequences can be explosive…
My work on Servonauts involved:
- Released: November 2024
- Developer: MAXART Games
- Publisher: Untold Tales, Screen Queensland, Screen Australia
- Platforms: Steam, Nintendo Switch
My work on Servonauts involved:
- Game Design: Developed gameplay features and conducted play-tests to refine ideas. Collaborated with stakeholders, engineers, and artists to shape the game’s identity.
- Gameplay Programming: Designed and maintained core mechanics, including reworking the flow system to enable directional flow graphs for enhanced gameplay features.
- Level Design: Created 16 unique levels, each evolving from simple to advanced gameplay. Built tools to streamline the level design process and developed rapid prototyping methods for agile iteration.
- Systems Design: Drafted feature specifications and rapid-prototype mechanics to guide strategic, artistic, and engineering decisions through a living confluence of documents.
- Localization: Implemented multi-language support, optimized character sets for limited memory, ensured smooth font fallback and character set maintenance.
- Development Tools:
- Build tools and workflows to accelerate including level design tools for faster iteration and UX tools to adjust input glyphs based on device and platform.
- Platform Development:
- Nintendo Switch: LotCheck compliance and software patch reliability
- Steam: Integrated Steamworks to build native achievements, integration with Steam’s Remote Play Together functionality, and full Steam Store compliance with the Steam Overlay, Cloud Saves and build distribution.
Reviews
“Servonauts stands out as a fresh take on this party game genre avoiding the Overcooked clone trap with its puzzle-focused gameplay”
The Co-op Company“A very pleasant surprise” that “strives to be different”. “Of all the [games of this genre] I’ve played, this is one of my favourites”.
SwitchUp“The amount of fun my gaming chum and I had with Servonauts is superb and I’m looking forward to getting 3 stars on every level.”
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A calming, no-pressure space to unwind. There are no wrong choices or failure states—only peaceful immersion in nature. You can always change your mind and reshape the world as inspiration strikes.
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For the past year I’ve been working on this Virtual Reality and WebGL experience to train police officers in how to handle call-outs for Family Domestic and Sexual Violence (FDSV). This has not been an easy project; the subject matter alone is very dark, but the impact is why it’s so important. It’s a privilege to work on a project like this that can make a big difference for victims in their time of need.
This project is made up of a few core components:
- High-resolution stereoscopic 180° video playback, loading seamlessly from the device. (VR)
- Efficient streaming of HLS video and audio in low-bandwidth remote/rural environments. (WebGL)
- A highly detailed, fully explorable 3D house environment.
- An adaptable interaction framework that allows the same content to be fully interactive with hands or controllers via virtual reality, or a mouse and keyboard via a web browser.
- Extensive asset compression work to ensure that web builds load promptly, but also that virtual reality can maintain a comfortable level of performance regardless of the scenario.
- And so much more…