This nightmare begins in a town very much like your own. You can smell the welcoming scent of bacon that your neighbour is frying for their morning meal, hear the wind rustle through the leaves of trees aligning roads that lead to a distant mass of life, purr of engines and laughter of children, all living their day to day lives. You can see the silhouette of rooftops that encircle you as the sun begins to rise from the distance, leaving an auburn glow to beam upon the tiled bricks of your home’s walls as you feel the familiar…

Since completing The Medium, a homage to original Silent Hill games, I’ve had a nagging need to write about it. I know it’s been highly speculated by game critics and gamers alike over its gameplay and narrative decisions but there’s one aspect that I haven’t seen people touch on: The use of fixed camera angles! I went into this game pretty much blind and got excited when I realised that it had reintroduced fixed camera angles back into mainstream survival horror.

History of Fixed Camera Games

Fixed camera angles once were a preferred style for survival horror games, While playing The Medium I was…

Unreal Engine is the video game engine behind Fortnite that has been used by many game developers as the building blocks for their creative ideas and interactive experiences. However, it’s becoming increasingly popular to see game engines be used outside of the game industry due the (seemingly) endless possibilities that are provided by it’s real-time 3D rendering capabilities. One noteable mention is Disney’s Mandalorian, for this series the team built entire 3D environments using massive screens that rendered real-time digital scenes through Unreal Engine which proved a great asset to the actors on-set, providing them context during their performances. Having…

When I was a child I dreamt of many things. From acting, singing, drawing and dancing, I wanted to do it all! Just like most children, the world was my oyster and I could see no reason why any of this could be unattainable.

But then I grew older and started to become more aware of how others perceived me and what made me happy in life. I started pushing my wants and needs aside to focus on a more ‘realistic’ way of life and, just like the grades that defined my education, I became critical to the point where…

This past year I have been chosen as one of the first 9 Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists in the UK; each of whom have come from different creative backgrounds, such as animation, photography and even magic! Throughout this programme we were shown various uses of the Raspberry Pi, a miniature and affordable computer, as well as the basics of how programme in Python, create functioning circuit boards and use hardware form the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins. We learned this all with the ultimate aim of using this new technical knowledge to enhance our creative skills that we already had; helping…

After days of getting my head around what best video qualities to use for these super stretched-out 360 videos and how to create one from my digital assets as well as what in the world FFmpeg was, and ultimately battling with my computers constantly overloaded hard drive, I have finally created my very own 4K resolution 360 interactive music video!

Now I’m writing down all of the steps that I used to reach this point for my own benefit as well as yours as I intend to be playing around with 360 video a LOT more! …

As I sat in my university room, stressing over deadlines to meet and work to be completed I scrolled through Twitter and saw of a decision that I had thought to be simply illogical. A debate that had been talked about for the past week, that had called for marches and gatherings all around the UK, that had been the forefront of every social media website and newspaper article that I had looked at. Of course I’m talking about the decision for the UK to bomb Syria. …

What I learned from moving to the hustle and bustle of London from a small, seaside city and why I’ve now decided to leave.

I awoke groggy, alcohol still lingering in my system from last nights leaving drinks. Co-workers, senior management, ex-colleagues, all of whom I class as friends were there to give me the best send off by buying me endless drinks, recounting my first days at the company and eagerly questioning where my next adventure lays…

Reaching my usual London underground station, I pass the crowds of busy people rushing to get to work, but suddenly feel the…