Casey-Jo Kenny

Hogwarts Legacy

Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. Embark on a journey through familiar and new locations as you explore and discover fantastic beasts, customise your character and craft potions, master spell casting, upgrade talents and become the wizard you want to be. Experience Hogwarts in the 1800s. Your character is a student who holds the key to an ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart. Discover the feeling of living at Hogwarts as you make allies, battle Dark Wizards and ultimately decide the fate of the wizarding world. Your legacy is what you make of it. Live the Unwritten.

Project Zomboid

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, a massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die?

Working part-time as a freelance Junior Programmer for Tanglewood Games alongside The Indie Stone to provide bug fixes and QOL changes to Project Zomboid.

Battalion Legacy

BATTALION: Legacy recaptures the core of classic shooters in the final iteration of Battalion 1944. Return to the simple days of playing first person shooters with your friends. Grab your bolt action rifle in 'rifles only' mode or compete in 5v5 Search and Destroy.

Working as an Intern Programmer and then Junior Programmer, handling implementing new gameplay features and bug fixes.

KILLRUN

Run n' gun parkour speedrunner. Race to set the best times and create the fastest routes. Smash the pro times on every level and unlock new weapon packs as you progress through a prototype playground of replayable FPS mechanics. From the creators of BATTALION.>

Working as an Intern Programmer and then Junior Programmer, handling implementing new gameplay features and bug fixes.

Labyrinth

Labyrinth was a final year group project. A team of 4 programmer, including myself created our own engine from scratch using C++ and PS4 code. We then created a dungeon crawler-esque game.

We built the entire engine around being as designer friendly as possible. We used Tiled as a level editor and exported these levels as Json files that the engine used to load the levels at runtime. We pulled all of our variables about players and enemies from a Json file also.

One of my main contributions to Labyrinth was creating a Entity Component System which allowed us to attach different components to our objects for complete customisation. I was also the project manager and was responsible for the Jira board, sprint management and scrum meetings.

Sorry We Missed You!

In a group of 2 programmers and 3 artists we had to create a game during a 2 week period in which we had to simulate an office experience. This included using things such as Trello, version control and other industry standards when making games.

The idea that we chose was a local multiplayer (using split screen and controllers) reckless delivery driver simulator. We wanted it to be destructive and slightly chaotic to play.

My main coding responsibilities on this project included:

UI (Main Menus and Gameplay UI)

Character Movement and Van Interactions

Van Skin Selector

I was also the Scrum Master which included holding meetings and the start and end of the work day to make sure everyone was on task, on schedule and working in sync with each other.

Gun Puzzle Demo

A demo I created to explore using C++ in Unreal Engine.

The idea was to have three different guns which all do different things to crates around the map.

I created a simple inventory system which put each gun in a specific slot and allows the player to switch between them easily.

The three guns: Shrink Gun, Grow Gun and Push Gun, allow the player to transforms the cubes in order for them to get past obstacles to continue.

This demo was to test the idea and to see if it was something I wanted to try and expand into a more complete game.