Project type: Personal

Call Your Horse is a simple and lightweight mod that I made for personal use, and decided to share it with everyone! It lets you call your last-used, player-owned horse to your location – as long as you’re in Skyrim, and not in an interior.

Mod synopsis

Call Your Horse was the result of me re-playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim after many years. Many games I had played since that included horse riding had a feature that allowed the player to whistle to call their horse to the player’s location, and I found I was missing that feature in Skyrim.

As I tended to create larger quest and location based mods, I thought it would be a good opportunity to change gears and create a small, single-feature focused gameplay improvement mod instead.

Whilst there were other mods that fulfilled similar functions, there were none that matched the requirements I had set out:

• Lightweight and modular, allowing it to work with horses added by other mods as well as official DLC without compatibility concerns
• Immersive horse traversal – if the horse is within the player’s vision cone, having it path straight to the player. If the horse is out of sight or otherwise unloaded, perform a trigonometric function, placing it far behind the player and have it gallop towards it
• Keeping it ‘real’ – rather than a spell that conjures the horse, have it be a traditional whistle

Overview of Work

• Identified feature gap in the “market” for a horse calling feature
• Planned out and implemented a modular and extensible framework for the horse whistle feature
• Iterated on the mathematical function that found a clear area behind the player to teleport the horse to, as well as a failsafe in case the teleportation function failed
• Worked with an audio designer to get 5 variants of a whistle audio asset to cut down on repetition

Platform: PC & Xbox, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Role: Designer and scripter
Duration: 2 Weeks
Tools Used: Creation Kit SDK, Sublime Text 3, Adobe Audition

After the numerous defeats across all remaining fronts, the Enclave has fractured into their own splinter groups, with their own ideologies. Two factions are about to go head to head in the Mojave Wasteland, and General Jamison is turning to the Courier for help. Will they join the Enclave, or leave them to their fate?

Mod synopsis

For The Enclave was a mod project created prior to my formal education as a Game Designer for the game Fallout: New Vegas, born out of my passion to create new experiences for players. Developed as a hobby project over 3 years, after release it was covered on various gaming news sites such as PC Gamer and has been downloaded over 150,000 times.

In the mod, the player is recruited by the remnants of a faction from Fallout 2 – The Enclave, to save them from the brink of destruction and spearhead the reformation of their faction, all while defending against an autocratic, openly hostile faction.

Taking the player to various new handcrafted locations where they would experience dramatic scripted sequences and twists in the narrative, the experience of this project pushed my design and technical skills to new heights. 

Overview of Work

• Scripting
  • Created a modular codebase to support various new features including a base-building system and inter-faction diplomacy
  • Scripted extensive quest-content and vehicle transport systems
• Design
  • Designed and balanced new gameplay systems, such as the base-building system (Balancing costs of each base module, output of resources etc)
  • Assembled 39 levels
• Production
  • Made use of the Art Pipeline to import dozens of new models and textures
  • Managed a cast of 19 voice actors

Platform: PC, Fallout: New Vegas
Role: Lead scripter, lead designer, narrative designer
Duration: 3+ Years
Tools Used: Custom Level Editor, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Audition