Who is Oliver Boyce?

[Sable]

My guess is he's Scottish, based on the wording of a screen message I saw in a Let's Play video. Beyond that, I have no clue who this game designer is. Hints and discoveries anyone?

[Construct Dev]

Hi :)

I'm an independent game developer currently based in Glasgow, Scotland although I have also worked in various other places in the United Kingdom.

After doing a Computer Games Technology course in Dundee in 2006, I did my first industry work for Free Radical Design in Nottingham, then Blitz Games in Leamington Spa and then Firebrand Games in Glasgow. For personal reasons I then moved to Ceredigion in Wales when my girlfriend got a job there. As there were no games companies near to where we lived I decided to make CONSTRUCT :) We recently moved back to Glasgow.

Happy to answer any other questions you may have. Here's my Steam profile and also Twitter account:

http://steamcommunity.com/id/constructdev/
https://twitter.com/ConstructDev_

[Sable]

Thank you so much Olly for that! You may wonder how I knew about Scotland. Before retiring from software development, I worked in Glasgow for 6 years (2003-9) running an engineers' training program. Loved the work and especially loved the people (and I miss the curries). I learned fairly early on that pretty much no one else in the English speaking world uses the word "outwith" with such frequency as do the Scots! Dead giveaway.

[Construct Dev]

Haha! :D Glad to hear you like Scotland and that's cool that you used to work in Glasgow! I see from your profile that you are based in Denver, Colorado? I've been through Denver airport a few times in my life when travelling to Breckinridge and Vail. Very nice part of the world! :D

[Ocean Man]

Originally posted by Construct Dev:

After doing a Computer Games Technology course in Dundee in 2006, I did my first industry work for Free Radical Design in Nottingham, then Blitz Games in Leamington Spa and then Firebrand Games in Glasgow. For personal reasons I then moved to Ceredigion in Wales when my girlfriend got a job there. As there were no games companies near to where we lived I decided to make CONSTRUCT :) We recently moved back to Glasgow.

Wow, working for game companies sounds like a pretty tough job considering the fact that you always have to move to another city.

Is it hard to work with Unity 5?
I ask because I'm fairly expierienced with the Blender Game Engine and I'm considering to export (If that's even possible) the project I am working on to Unity 5.

Construct is an awesome game btw. :)

[Construct Dev]

Originally posted by Ocean Man:

Wow, working for game companies sounds like a pretty tough job considering the fact that you always have to move to another city.

Is it hard to work with Unity 5?
I ask because I'm fairly expierienced with the Blender Game Engine and I'm considering to export (If that's even possible) the project I am working on to Unity 5.

Construct is an awesome game btw. :)

Hi :)

Yeah, working for different games companies can be tough due to moving around, trying to stay in touch with friends and family etc. But then, making games is so much fun :D

I've found Unity 5 to be very easy to use. It's a very powerful engine and great for indie developers. There's also a big online community of Unity 5 developers so it's always easy to find solutions to any problems you may have. Regarding the 'Blender Game Engine', I'm not sure if you can export your project to Unity 5. I did use 'Blender' (just the 3D modelling tool) to model most of the environment objects in Construct. Then I exported these to .dae for use in Unity 5.

Glad you like the game! :D

[Ocean Man]

Originally posted by Construct Dev:

I did use 'Blender' (just the 3D modelling tool) to model most of the environment objects in Construct.

I assumed that Blender was involved in the creation of the game once I saw the trees. (I also use Blenders Sapling Tree Gen tool a lot). :)

Thanks for the reply!