{"id":2623,"date":"2018-04-27T10:11:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T10:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2018-04-27T10:11:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T10:11:03","slug":"indie-developer-showcase-matthew-delines-shape-arcade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"Indie Developer Showcase: Matthew Deline’s SHAPE ARCADE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Any Button Gaming\u00a0journalist Darren Colley recently met up with Matthew Deline, a student on our MA Indie Games & Playable Experience Design.\u00a0We republish his article here.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week we are showcasing the creator of retro tabletop arcade cabinet\u00a0Shape Arcade<\/em>,\u00a0Matthew Deline.<\/p>\n

\"m0ULgOqk_400x400\"Hi! My name is Matthew, and it\u2019s very nice to meet you. I\u2019m an aspiring independent game designer and travel blogger from California who\u00a0is currently based in London. I love to travel and make cool things, and I am a passionate believer in the importance of storytelling and the power of creative expression through play.<\/p>\n

Building on lessons learned throughout my professional and academic history, from a focus in world literature (I was named the 2009 Outstanding Graduate in English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University), to high-level Technical support for global teams at Apple in Cupertino, to my experiences filming, writing about, and sharing our world as a travel blogger with The Radical Dreamer<\/a>, I\u2019m currently studying to build transformative game experiences at one of the United Kingdom\u2019s top universities for digital humanities with the MA Independent Games &\u00a0Playable Experience Design<\/a> program at Goldsmiths, University of London.<\/p>\n

My key interests of study include interactive fiction, virtual reality, physical computing, and creative coding which gives me a unique interdisciplinary skill set from using Unity, GameMaker and C# to create digital games, to Twine for exploring branching and reactive narratives, to using Processing and Open Frameworks to make tools for creating generative artwork, and the use of microcontrollers and electronics for building playable (and playful) experiences.<\/p>\n

And with a core focus on learning fundamental game design concepts, I now have a skill set that includes rapid prototyping and iteration on paper and in Unity for a broad range of both physical and digital experiences. And I\u2019m incredibly excited for the opportunity to create with these new skills to explore the sociological and identity issues that are relative to interactive entertainment and the unique narrative and expressive qualities that the medium contains.<\/p>\n

About The Game, Shape Arcade<\/em>
\n\"img_2733\"<\/strong>Shape Arcade<\/a><\/em> is an arcade game where players compete to reach the highest score possible by using two dials to match their player\u2019s shape to different colored shapes falling down the screen. Designed to be simple and intuitive to engage with, and challenging at higher levels of play.<\/p>\n

Players match shapes by moving their player using the left dial, and increase or decrease the number of sides to their shape by turning the right dial. As players reach higher levels, their scores become even higher, and so do the stakes! Shapes move faster, rotate, and sway. Once they have missed three shapes in a row, the game is over.<\/p>\n