Brody Brooks

Description:

Words Must Die is an absurdist text-based story game, crammed inside of a first-person shooter, where you turn an old saloon red with the words of your actions.

This game was made with a group of friends for the Pippin Barr Game Idea Jam in the course of a week. I acted as the lead programmer and environment artist.

Project Details:

• Role: Lead Programmer / Environment Artist
• Platform: Windows / Mac
• Engine: Unity 5.4
• Press:
• "Words Must Die is what happens when a first person shooter and visual novel have a beautiful baby." - Kotaku
• "If you’ve only got time to play one freebie this week, go for this one. It’s certainly the best western-themed FPSIF I can think of." - Rock Paper Shotgun

Description:

In Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n.ipa, you’ll use the E-Corp messaging app to communicate in real time with characters from the show, making dialog choices that directly affect how the story flows. Make a choice then live with the far-reaching consequences in this hi-tech narrative drama driven by YOU.

Developed at Night School Studio and published by Telltale Games, I had the pleasure of working as a gameplay programmer on this.

Project Details:

• Role: Programmer
• Platform: iOS / Android
• Engine: Unity 5.4

Description:

Clean up the gang-ridden city streets, one phrase at a time. Only trust your fists, thesaurus will never help you.

Borrowing assets from King of Fighters, Final Fight, and Streets of Rage / Bare Knuckle, this prototype was developed between February and May 2014 to see how well the arcade brawler genre could be circumvented with touch typing mechanics.

Project Details:

• Role: Sole Developer
• Platform: Windows / Mac
• Engine: BlitzMax

Description:

Developed at WayForward, this game was a callback to old top-down Zelda games, with multiple labrynthian dungeons connected by a giant overworld that players could freely roam.

Here, I served as the lead level designer, where I created paper maps to figure out the geometry of the world and placement of items and characters. I also oversaw other designers creating dungeons and worked with programmers to develop environment mechanics/obstacles we could use in many different ways.

Project Details:

• Role: Lead Level Designer
• Platform: Windows / PS3 / 360 / 3DS / Vita
• Engine: WayForward Engine

Project Description:

Developed by a small team at WayForward Technologies and published by Activision, this is a turn-based tactical RPG for kids that came out just before the fourth Michael Bay Transformers film.

My work on this project was predominantly designing core functionality for the game, balancing unit stats, giving feedback and approval to artists.

Project Details:

• Role: Lead Designer
• Platform: Nintendo 3DS
• Engine: EngineBlack

Project Description:

Initially developed by Basenji Interactive and Lighthaus, Inc. for Stanford Children's Hospital, my task was to update the application's user interface, integrate analytics, implement localization, and port the whole thing to iPad.

Worked in close collaboration with Lighthaus, Inc. for the duration of the project.

Project Details:

• Role: Contract Programmer
• Platform: iOS / Web
• Engine: Unity 4.6

Project Description:

I worked as a general Unity programmer at Super Bit Machine on the game Armajet, a real-time online arena shooter for iOS and Android.

Development took a sharp focus on optimization. It was imperitive that we hit 60 frames per second on most phones, which meant programming to avoid hitches, avoid causing garbage collection unnecessarily, and profiling everything we worked on to ensure nothing will cause performance problems down the road.

Project Details:

• Role: Unity Developer
• Platform: iOS / Android
• Engine: Unity 2017.1

Project Description:

Created over the course of a weekend as a gift for my girlfriend, Kris Time Event is a quick-time-event mini-game that, uh, keeps you on your toes. A lot of twists as you progress.

Features music by Jake Kaufman.

Project Details:

• Role: Unity Developer
• Platform: Windows / Mac
• Engine: Unity 4.6

Project Description:

The rules of the Exquisite Corpose jam had 8 programmers, each working on a project for 30 minutes before rotating to the laptop of the person to their left. They would then work on that project for 30 minutes before moving again. The result was a collection of weird, wacky interactive pieces.

But mostly weird.

Project Details:

• Role: Unity Developer
• Platform: Windows / Mac
• Engine: Unity 2017.2.1