Brendon Smuts

In A Day in the Woods—a stylish reimagining of the traditional sliding puzzle game—you play as Little Red Riding Hood’s wispy winged sprite friend. It’s up to you to solve each hexagon-tiled level in the shortest number of moves possible and get Little Miss Red safely to Granny’s house.

I worked on level design and gameplay systems.

Bar Blitz is a mixology game where players test their skills in making cocktails. The game was developed in partnership with IMVU and leveraging their social avatar platform.

I led a team of six, including developers, artists, and designers; I was also responsible for all the core game systems.

I also developed an asset processing and deployment system that took high fidelity source textures from artists and produced device-specific quality variants. The variants were then packed into archives to be distributed to users depending on device performance capabilities.

Data shows sports fans spend the majority of their time watching live events focused on a mobile phone or device.

Call it Lives brings players back into the actions through their devices by allowing players to predict goals, shots and saves as you watch live football matches. Players are able to go up against rival fans and climb the leaderboard while earning in-game rewards in real-time for successful attack and defense.

Rewards can be used to train skills and upgrade equipment to gain an edge against the competition.

I took over the development of an existing code base with the intent of addressing performance and stability issues.

After positive results on the initial engagement, I built out additional game features, cross-platform in-app purchases, and mobile engagement features using Urban Airship.

I was the sole developer on a simple memory matching game with a focus on a polished game feel. I customized PBR shaders and performed extensive graphics profiling for optimization on very low-end mobile devices.

uBuild provides an alternative to configuring build options without using Unity’s default player settings.

Build settings are created as individual assets inside the project structure, allowing for quick and consistent switching between different configurations without requiring error-prone hand tweaking.

Once set up, objects can be easily pushed to any source control system ensuring consistent build results between all developers, including those unfamiliar with the build process.

Build objects can also easily be run through the command line batch mode for easy integration with existing continuous integration workflows.

I acted as the sole developer of the project, performing both back-end and front-end responsibilities.

I developed a back-end console that allowed for configuration of game data in order to assist designers in balance with the gameplay without requiring updated builds.

I implemented the iOS/Android in-app purchases and authentication.

Houzz-it is the first serious property-game created by Sea Monster. I acted as the primary developer for the project.

I built a data-driven system to allow designers to develop custom rules for changing gameplay behavior for different scenarios. The game rule objects were serializable to a database back-end that could be connected to in order to add and update game content without rebuilding executables.