Scott Purcival – Game Programmer

About Me

I am a Game Programmer with an eye for Design.

I have a knack for big data and solutions to complex problems, and an unhealthy obsession with polish.
My mantra is 'everything is possible'. If I don't know how to do something, I will persist until I figure it out.
When I am not working or studying, I like to make my own games, build custom gaming PCs, play co-op games with my wife, and spend time outdoors.

My notable acheivements of late are;

2022 - Sackboy™: A Big Adventure - PC Port of PS5 Game. Released on Steam and Epic Store - The Eccentric Ape

2020 - Frog's Princess - Released to Steam, App Store and Google Play - Joy Everafter Stories

2019 - Two rapid development projects for Western Downs Libraries - Bookworm Blitz! and Greenscreen Photo Booth.

2018 - Adv. Dip. Professional Game Development (Programming) - The Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE)

2018 - Ballmer Peak - Published my first game to the Google Play store, in early access.

2017 - Second Place - NASA Space Apps Challenge, UTS Sydney with our entry -KEN-

I am also an avid gamer myself, dad to 3 gamer kids, and build custom gaming PCs in my free time.

My Work

Sackboy™: A Big Adventure

PC port of a well known PS4/PS5 title.
My responsibilities included; Correcting game physics issues throughout caused by move to uncapped frame rate. Track down and fix performance issues. AMD Radeon GPU specific testing and bugfixes. Porting saved game and
user config file formats and locations for Windows, and general bug fixes and localisation fixes.

Made using;
Unreal Engine, Visual Studio C++

The Tower

My assignment for the Cross Platform Development project. Platforms were PC and Android. All game code is my own, UI art is my own work, 3D art is Unity asset store.
I am particularly proud of the procedural random dungeon generator which I ported to Unity C# from an earlier C++ text adventure of mine.

Made using;
Unity3D, Visual Studio C#, Clip Studio Paint

Frog’s Princess

The first commercial game I have worked on and released. As the principal programmer for 2.5 years, I was responsible for all feature additions, bugfixes and optimisations, as well as technical support for release.

Made using;
Unity3D, Visual Studio C#, Adobe Photoshop

Plugins used;
Fungus, UI Accessibility Plugin (UAP), Unity Vector Graphics

Jeeves: A Butler’s Tale

My team’s submission for our AIE Major Production project. The original game concept is my own, and was chosen by vote to enter major production.
I was one programmer of three, in a 7 person production team. I worked primarily on the UI, actor navigation and dynamic navmesh system, task management system, and core game loop.

Made using;
Unity3D, Visual Studio C#, Clip Studio Paint

Ballmer Peak

My first indie game, which i have recently released to the Google Play store in early access Alpha. All code, art, and audio is my own work.

Made using;
Unity3D, Visual Studio C#, Clip Studio Paint, Adobe Audition

Greenscreen Photo Booth

A greenscreen photo booth application developed for Western Downs Libraries ‘Fun Palaces’ STEAM expo.

Later extended for Western Downs Cinemas’ Frozen 2 premiere event, and the Christmas Light Up event.

Made using;
Unity3D, Visual Studio C#, Adobe Photoshop, Spydus API

Plugins used;
Chroma Key Kit

– KEN –

My team’s entry to the 2017 NASA Space Apps Challenge. We won second place at the Sydney venue at UTS.
Platform is Android Daydream VR. The app is a framework, which accepts and parses a wide range of NASA raw data.
Challenges were;
Displaying 100,000 data points in real-time on mobile VR at an acceptable frame rate.
Parsing NASA earth data into usable format, in engine.

Made using;
Unity3D, Visual Studio C#

Bookworm Blitz!

An interactive projected touchscreen game, developed for Western Downs Libraries ‘Fun Palaces’ STEAM expo.

Touchscreen projection algorithm is my own work, using the plugin only to access the Microsoft Kinect SDK.

Made using;
Unity3D, Visual Studio C#, Adobe Photoshop

Plugins used;
Kinect with MS-SDK