Jonathan Jennings

Can you Beat the box was a Physical installation event that incorporated Augmented Reality to provide a fun and unique experience. I was responsible for building the core event registration and the Docent UI systems.

Galactic Bar Fight is my passion project a VR arcade combat experience heavily inspired by two of my favorite VR games Gorn and Superhot . and is currently available on the Oculus Quest through Oculus App Lab.

I am the original concept designer , lead programmer on all the game systems including AI, Weapons, UI, Tutorial, overall game structure, and more . I even did some basic Voice Over work in the initial demo.

To date Galactic Bar Fight has over 6000 downloads and I am… Show more

Galactic Bar Fight is my passion project a VR arcade combat experience heavily inspired by two of my favorite VR games Gorn and Superhot . and is currently available on the Oculus Quest through Oculus App Lab.

I am the original concept designer , lead programmer on all the game systems including AI, Weapons, UI, Tutorial, overall game structure, and more . I even did some basic Voice Over work in the initial demo.

To date Galactic Bar Fight has over 6000 downloads and I am actively working on building into a more full game experience for a major update in the late summer. Show less

I was the lead programmer for Sonder : A story by Hot Clock Productions . Which was created during Ludum Dare 48 , my first game jam and I am so proud of our end result!

I wrote the core gameplay functionality that controlled our movement in between "Time Scenes " , the base selectable token interaction functionality, the ability to show text on hover and display description text, I also sourced sound effects , and wrote our audio manager for them to make the system modular and easy to… Show more

I was the lead programmer for Sonder : A story by Hot Clock Productions . Which was created during Ludum Dare 48 , my first game jam and I am so proud of our end result!

I wrote the core gameplay functionality that controlled our movement in between "Time Scenes " , the base selectable token interaction functionality, the ability to show text on hover and display description text, I also sourced sound effects , and wrote our audio manager for them to make the system modular and easy to edit at any time. I also was responsible for the narrative panels functionality and the brief click to progress dialogues within our game.

I also lead development on our HTML5 version port which you can play here: https://hotclock.itch.io/sonder

I wrote a few posts detailing the technical approach to those aspects of the game as well :
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/sonder-a-story/sonder-stages-of-progression-from-our-final-project-to-our-prototype
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/sonder-a-story/programming-buckets-of-time-a-mini-sonder-a-story-technical-post-mortem Show less

Snack Attack is a Mixed Reality Casual minigame experience which I am developing for the Magic Leap One . The goal being to give players a 3D Characters that they can customize and tweak and play with seamlessly in their living room to complete a few minigame like challenges .

I've only just started development so look for more in the near future ! This is so far a solo project which I have designed , and programmed myself.

Blades Is a Mixed Reality weapons-based fighting game that I've begun to prototype for the Magic Leap mixed reality headset and developed with the Unity game engine. The goal is to ultimately work up to an Intense fighting game in which users directly control and utilize weaponry in a mixed reality space against an AI controlled opponent.

RelayCars is now available on Steam and playable on the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows Mixed Reality headset . My job was to start the project , Integrate our vehicles and 3D environment into the unity engine and import that with the Steam VR SDK to get a very basic idea of what bringing the RelayCars Franchise to a 6DOF headset experience may look like . As we developed the concept further I helped develop the Interactive UI systems, prototype the initial Interior viewing mode , and… Show more

RelayCars is now available on Steam and playable on the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Windows Mixed Reality headset . My job was to start the project , Integrate our vehicles and 3D environment into the unity engine and import that with the Steam VR SDK to get a very basic idea of what bringing the RelayCars Franchise to a 6DOF headset experience may look like . As we developed the concept further I helped develop the Interactive UI systems, prototype the initial Interior viewing mode , and get the project ready to hand off to another team member to finish , as Well as Spearheaded the research and setting up of the experience on the Steam Platform and helping guide our producer team through the needs for our app submission process. This was particularly exciting because it represents my first steam release !

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Relaycars 8 is the latest iteration of our studios RelayCars series this new version of the app includes the ability to search for vehicles in our portal rooms and the ability to save your favorite vehicles to our garage room . I managed, QA'd , debugged, and released this Port for RelayCars 8 , while on the surface it seems like fundamentally the same project under the hood we made quite a few technical revisions so my job was to Re-integrate all of the Functionality I originally wrote for… Show more

Relaycars 8 is the latest iteration of our studios RelayCars series this new version of the app includes the ability to search for vehicles in our portal rooms and the ability to save your favorite vehicles to our garage room . I managed, QA'd , debugged, and released this Port for RelayCars 8 , while on the surface it seems like fundamentally the same project under the hood we made quite a few technical revisions so my job was to Re-integrate all of the Functionality I originally wrote for RelayCars 7 into RelayCars 8 . We also had several bug issues with time codes and absolute URI's that me and my coworker worked through together. My core contributions to the project had to do with the merging between our main project branch and the Windows MR branch I developed specifically for this platform and reintegration of features such as the HoloToolkit, the input systems , ( for both xbox one game pads and Windows MR controllers), updating the Virtual keyboard to work with the Windows MR controllers and our raycasting selection system , some of the specific Windows MR ecosystem implementations and then the entire submission and release process. Show less

RelayCars Magic Leap is our studios newest contribution to automotive AR/ VR experiences. In this experience you are able to drive one of our awesome vehicles from our extensive vehicle library around your very own living room . My contributions to this project included the programming of the User Experience, everything from grabbing the vehicles and placing them to writing the code for our immersive UI elements to change the vehicle color and the various driving modes. Implementation of the… Show more

RelayCars Magic Leap is our studios newest contribution to automotive AR/ VR experiences. In this experience you are able to drive one of our awesome vehicles from our extensive vehicle library around your very own living room . My contributions to this project included the programming of the User Experience, everything from grabbing the vehicles and placing them to writing the code for our immersive UI elements to change the vehicle color and the various driving modes. Implementation of the audio for the various cues, implementation of various particle effects , and writing the code to focus the UI systems to shift based on the position of the user and their respective camera.

RelayCars Magic Leap is currently available for download on the Magic Leap World store. Show less

Our RelayCars snapchat Lens was our studios first AR product release( though not our first bit of research into the AR space) . My job was initially just to figure out what the capabilities of Lens Studio were , after using their templates as a foundation and prototyping a few different things ( 2D animations in 3D space, portals , etc.) We decided the best move forward was to bring one of our high quality low resolution 3D models into the space. I wrote the code for the ability to spin and… Show more

Our RelayCars snapchat Lens was our studios first AR product release( though not our first bit of research into the AR space) . My job was initially just to figure out what the capabilities of Lens Studio were , after using their templates as a foundation and prototyping a few different things ( 2D animations in 3D space, portals , etc.) We decided the best move forward was to bring one of our high quality low resolution 3D models into the space. I wrote the code for the ability to spin and scale the vehicle , to change the colors of the vehicle by tapping the screen and to play our spray paint sound for a bit of audio feedback upon the finishing of the tap. This was my first time writing anything directly in javascript so I did have to wrap my head around the syntax and language a little bit but I got comfortable with how to declare and modify things rather quickly. I was actually thoroughly impressed by the capabilities of Lens Studio and it's design takes a lot of inspiration from game engines so after a day or so I felt at home in the environment. I managed the upload and submission process for our lens now which has over 100 views , 30 + scans , and double digit shares. Show less

This is the Port of Relaycars 7 targeted for the Windows MR Immersive headset . I was responsible for the entire porting process which included debugging platform specific bugs, , rewriting input systems to work with both the base unity integration and the actual HoloToolkit package developed for Windows Mixed Reality apps. Modifying code to work with and retarget for asset bundles compatible with Windows UWP apps. I wrote custom functionality for implementing Raycasts with the visual… Show more

This is the Port of Relaycars 7 targeted for the Windows MR Immersive headset . I was responsible for the entire porting process which included debugging platform specific bugs, , rewriting input systems to work with both the base unity integration and the actual HoloToolkit package developed for Windows Mixed Reality apps. Modifying code to work with and retarget for asset bundles compatible with Windows UWP apps. I wrote custom functionality for implementing Raycasts with the visual representation of the Mixed Reality Controllers that wasn't yet a feature within the holo toolkit . I also had to write code including to ignore certain blocks and classes that gave compiler or build errors for Windows UWP targeted apps. Much of my code focus was on Getting the build to work based off of an IL2CPP based backend services and then later to .net based backend due to incompatibility issues with the HoloToolkit and certain libraries used across other versions of our app . I was also responsible for the entire submission and release process of delivering the UWP app to the Microsoft store.

The first public version of RC7 for the Windows MR became available on May 28th , 2018 .
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RelayCars 7 i s the next iteration of EVOX's popular Automotive 360 VR experience. My responsibilities included prototyping and developing the Color Cars feature which now allows users to access hundreds of different color options of all the vehicles from the vehicle library . Managing , implementing, and updating our in-app analytics system. Fixing pre-release bugs , and handling the process of readying our app for release onto the oculus store .

RelayCars6 is my second release with Evox and the first released project in which I have managed the majority of development of features, and integration of assets into our app . RelayCars 6 is an automotive - focused VR experience . My tasks included implementing Asset Bundles downloading , JSON data serialization and interfacing with webservices , Integration and development of new Primary UI systems , tweaks / development across main project features ,Optimizations , as well as… Show more

RelayCars6 is my second release with Evox and the first released project in which I have managed the majority of development of features, and integration of assets into our app . RelayCars 6 is an automotive - focused VR experience . My tasks included implementing Asset Bundles downloading , JSON data serialization and interfacing with webservices , Integration and development of new Primary UI systems , tweaks / development across main project features ,Optimizations , as well as creating the new room environments , and more including porting to multiple VR platforms. RelayCars6 is currently available for the GearVR on the oculus store. Show less

Relay Cars 5 is my first release with Evox Images , Relay Cars 5 is an automobile -visualization and preview app utilizing VR perspectives to give the user a sense of presence within the vehicles . I was responsible for the build process and fine - tuning of our GEAR VR .project as well as fixing plugins , programming and UI - work and the full fine-tuning , uploading , testing , and release of our Google Cardboard project.

Relay Cars 5 is currently available on Android for… Show more

Relay Cars 5 is my first release with Evox Images , Relay Cars 5 is an automobile -visualization and preview app utilizing VR perspectives to give the user a sense of presence within the vehicles . I was responsible for the build process and fine - tuning of our GEAR VR .project as well as fixing plugins , programming and UI - work and the full fine-tuning , uploading , testing , and release of our Google Cardboard project.

Relay Cars 5 is currently available on Android for both GEAR VR and Google Cardboard enabled devices and iOS for Google Cardboard - enabled Devices. Show less

I worked with fishermen labs on a Google Cardboard VR application to coincide with their bluray release of Ghostbusters( 2016) developed in Unity. My role on the team was focused on Gameplay programming , implementing third party SDK's for (Google VR and Analytics), integrating animation effects, audio integration , UI implementation and modification , localization ( both Text and VoiceOver) , research for a Gear VR port and more .

Gem Jump is an Vertical Infinite runner / Infinite bouncer arcade game available on both the Android and iOS app stores . I was one of the unity engineers on Gem Jump and my primary responsibilities included integrating the collectible objects, doing some of the UI implementation, implementing the third party SDK's ( ads, analytics, facebook), as well as integrating the backend user accounts system we use to compare users scores amongst their friends using yahoos Big DB within the… Show more

Gem Jump is an Vertical Infinite runner / Infinite bouncer arcade game available on both the Android and iOS app stores . I was one of the unity engineers on Gem Jump and my primary responsibilities included integrating the collectible objects, doing some of the UI implementation, implementing the third party SDK's ( ads, analytics, facebook), as well as integrating the backend user accounts system we use to compare users scores amongst their friends using yahoos Big DB within the PlayerIO SDK . I also was assigned the task of compiling the majority of the audio assets we utilized in the release builds and was responsible for our Android Porting process . Show less

BattleTopia is a Prototype personal project that I decided to being developing in my free time . It is a 3D Monster collecting turn-based RPG for PC's and macs. My work so far on the project includes the overarching game design , selection of the assets, Saving and Loading functionality, Turn-based RPG battle system, Audio manager , and a custom implementation of UI System that allows me to easily change menu transitions for unique Dialogs. Ultimately I hope to have a playable version… Show more

BattleTopia is a Prototype personal project that I decided to being developing in my free time . It is a 3D Monster collecting turn-based RPG for PC's and macs. My work so far on the project includes the overarching game design , selection of the assets, Saving and Loading functionality, Turn-based RPG battle system, Audio manager , and a custom implementation of UI System that allows me to easily change menu transitions for unique Dialogs. Ultimately I hope to have a playable version , this is nothing more than a creative exercise. Show less

The Project I deem Pongtastic was a 4 player online flash game developed in Flash with AS3 . We managed our online services using the PlayerIO package developed for flash . The experience was primarily an exercise in understanding the PlayerIO functionality / workflow/ and whether it was a viable option for us creating multiplayer games in the future . The game in question was written entirely by me from the gameplay mechanics to integrating and ensuring PlayerIO was working , and… Show more

The Project I deem Pongtastic was a 4 player online flash game developed in Flash with AS3 . We managed our online services using the PlayerIO package developed for flash . The experience was primarily an exercise in understanding the PlayerIO functionality / workflow/ and whether it was a viable option for us creating multiplayer games in the future . The game in question was written entirely by me from the gameplay mechanics to integrating and ensuring PlayerIO was working , and syncing the game states between all four players in relation to their paddles and the ball itself . Show less

My role has been to rapid-prototype a trivia game in unity over a 3 day span and have been able to create a basic game loop complete with test questions and basic UI in that time span. This is the first prototype i have had full Range of and developed the data structures used to create the question and answer data, the core game loop , and basic scoring system. I also implemented the core for our multiplayer functionality, integrating a custom multiplayer solution used by our studio and… Show more

My role has been to rapid-prototype a trivia game in unity over a 3 day span and have been able to create a basic game loop complete with test questions and basic UI in that time span. This is the first prototype i have had full Range of and developed the data structures used to create the question and answer data, the core game loop , and basic scoring system. I also implemented the core for our multiplayer functionality, integrating a custom multiplayer solution used by our studio and syncing the client-server connectivity to render questions on multiple devices, and continue through a set list of questions for our players and submitting their scores to a leaderboard. Show less

MY team and I have been working on a Solitaire game developed using Unity and written in C# for the past 6 months which features a popular IP. My roles on the project have included UI engineering , some back end Data construction and interfacing , online back-end platform research and base implementation using yahoo Game Services , Analytics integration, Android porting, plugin integration , Timed reward implementation , audio integration , and implementing several visual effects.

I briefly Remotely worked on an Unity plugin that was developed to give unity developers access to an internal Dreamworks API and its services . My role was to help give the team insight into how generally Unity engineers integrate and utilize plugins, provide recommendations on interacting with the backend API itself. Design UI elements for the different service requests , render Data generated by the API in those same UI dialogs, and ultimately build a test iOS app that demonstrated… Show more

I briefly Remotely worked on an Unity plugin that was developed to give unity developers access to an internal Dreamworks API and its services . My role was to help give the team insight into how generally Unity engineers integrate and utilize plugins, provide recommendations on interacting with the backend API itself. Design UI elements for the different service requests , render Data generated by the API in those same UI dialogs, and ultimately build a test iOS app that demonstrated all of the API functionalities working on a mobile device . Show less

TJLR is an infinite Runner- styled arcade game in which I was responsible for rapid-prototyping the initial game concept and later became responsible for creating some of the additional gameplay sub-systems and mechanics ( tutorial , collectibles , rewards systems, ) . In addition to the gameplay programming for this project I am responsible for the social plugin implementation ( Facebook and Everyplay) , Analytics implementation ( Google analytics / considered Unity analytics) , and was… Show more

TJLR is an infinite Runner- styled arcade game in which I was responsible for rapid-prototyping the initial game concept and later became responsible for creating some of the additional gameplay sub-systems and mechanics ( tutorial , collectibles , rewards systems, ) . In addition to the gameplay programming for this project I am responsible for the social plugin implementation ( Facebook and Everyplay) , Analytics implementation ( Google analytics / considered Unity analytics) , and was the single developer assigned to porting the project to Android platforms and managing the project as we approach release on the Google Play Store . I also was in charge of implementing additional SDK's requested by our prospective publishers . Show less

Madagascar Solitaire was a title our Team at Fuel Industries worked on in early 2014 . My primary roles on the project were focused on integrating 3rd party SDK's and tools ( facebook , etc. ) , helping develop implementation for fanfare particle effect sequences and banners , leading the Android porting process, developing the timer reward chests systems, , offering additional UI engineering support for currency, narrative, and option menus among other things.

(currently only available in the Australia and New Zealand for iOS)

Broddcast is a mobile content creation tool developed for the Android and iOS platforms developed using the unity 3D engine . My primary areas of focus included creating the Saving and Loading system, integrating various plugins including Google Analytics ,Everyplay for both platforms , as well as the adColony and the prime 31 In-app billing plugins for Android and helping to expand and fine-tune the core user content… Show more

(currently only available in the Australia and New Zealand for iOS)

Broddcast is a mobile content creation tool developed for the Android and iOS platforms developed using the unity 3D engine . My primary areas of focus included creating the Saving and Loading system, integrating various plugins including Google Analytics ,Everyplay for both platforms , as well as the adColony and the prime 31 In-app billing plugins for Android and helping to expand and fine-tune the core user content recording mechanics. I also am spear-heading the submission and addition of our app onto the Google play store. Show less

My team and I got back together to create a fun Christmas game! It's a fun slightly open world where the player collects keys to unlock holiday themed minigames! The games range from a snowball fight, sledding, Christmas trivia game, maze and 2D level! Hopefully you all enjoy!

Lenzo's Halloween Adventure is a game my friend and I made to celebrate the awesome holiday Halloween! We made this game in a month and it is a simple 3D platformer with hidden side scroller levels! I served as the programmer doing everything from implementing characters and animations , creating unlockable costumes , and programmed the enemy AI and overall game structure .

Avattire is a mobile avatar creator developed using the Unity 3D engine that is currently available on the IOS app store and will be available on google play soon.This programming role focused more on the plugin integration of prime 31 plugins including the social networking , etcetera, and audio recorder plugin integration. As well as implementing localization using the M2H plugin for about 15 languages. I also helped set up purchasable products for our app on google play and linked them… Show more

Avattire is a mobile avatar creator developed using the Unity 3D engine that is currently available on the IOS app store and will be available on google play soon.This programming role focused more on the plugin integration of prime 31 plugins including the social networking , etcetera, and audio recorder plugin integration. As well as implementing localization using the M2H plugin for about 15 languages. I also helped set up purchasable products for our app on google play and linked them to the purchasing buttons within our app using the prime 31 storekit and IAB plugins for iOS and Android Devices respectively . As for in-game content I created cross language implementation to make the game( primarily written in JavaScript) speak to the plugins ( primarily written in c# ) . I also created functionality for applying images taken from the players camera roll or photo gallery to the character clothing. I was also hired to engineer UI created with NGUI. Show less

Invasion Force is a PC-based portfolio piece I developed over 3 months with the Unity 3D engine using C# . I designed the game , created the music, programmed everything including the weapon mechanics, the overall game structure, A.I. path finding routines for both the escaping humanoids and enemy helicopters , as well as Engineered the U.I. including visual cool downs and, a high score list. It is my first attempt at making a complete Full game experience by myself and I am still working to… Show more

Invasion Force is a PC-based portfolio piece I developed over 3 months with the Unity 3D engine using C# . I designed the game , created the music, programmed everything including the weapon mechanics, the overall game structure, A.I. path finding routines for both the escaping humanoids and enemy helicopters , as well as Engineered the U.I. including visual cool downs and, a high score list. It is my first attempt at making a complete Full game experience by myself and I am still working to improve the project as much as possible . Show less

(Currently only available on the Phillipine and Vietnamese app stores for Android and iOS) CKR is a kart racing game Project i worked on while employed at Emberlab Developed with the unity 3D engine , essentially I was the Lead Front end engineer , creating the functionality for everything dealing with the Users end-experience . My main responsibilities on CKR included UI implementation and engineering ranging from menu systems to the in-game HUD, Animation implementation for in-game… Show more

(Currently only available on the Phillipine and Vietnamese app stores for Android and iOS) CKR is a kart racing game Project i worked on while employed at Emberlab Developed with the unity 3D engine , essentially I was the Lead Front end engineer , creating the functionality for everything dealing with the Users end-experience . My main responsibilities on CKR included UI implementation and engineering ranging from menu systems to the in-game HUD, Animation implementation for in-game characters, music and sound effect implementation for everything ranging from collisions to background music, and social media integration using the prime 31 plugins for facebook and twitter. I also had a hand in creating the basic game flow functionality from the main menu , to the in-game racing, progressing through a series of tracks in a circuit or individual time trial races , and finally ending in a celebration of the players accomplishments . Show less

Run Seo Run was a simple infinite Runner project in the vein of Robot Unicorn / Jetpack joyride Developed by me and some friends for the PC and potentially the Android platforms. Development took place over about 3 months in our spare time and the project was developed in Unity. For this game I did all of the programming from the character sprite animation to the actual code for spawning and infinite procedural generation of the level environment. My Friend Travis Vanessen Designed the… Show more

Run Seo Run was a simple infinite Runner project in the vein of Robot Unicorn / Jetpack joyride Developed by me and some friends for the PC and potentially the Android platforms. Development took place over about 3 months in our spare time and the project was developed in Unity. For this game I did all of the programming from the character sprite animation to the actual code for spawning and infinite procedural generation of the level environment. My Friend Travis Vanessen Designed the visuals and core gameplay mechanics as well as managed and scheduled project progress and milestones . Thilan Wijesinha was our acting composer / audio engineer and provided 3 music pieces for the main menu, gameplay , and end- game results screen. Show less

The loading bar game was an extra curricular project the team at Sabertooth had a chance to work on in between projects and was later polished and released. My role on it was minor,setting up basic animation states and key frames for the loading bar " bling" it was a ton of fun working on this project with my amazing coworkers at Sabetooth!

Flavor Monsters is the third published mobile game Project I have worked on. My roles on the flavor monsters development team consisted , importing, positioning, and implementing functionality for UI elements. creating user feedback , assisting in implementing the end-game mini-game, and spear-heading development of the in-game field manual and other in-game features.

Animal Planet is the first published game title I had an opportunity to work on. my role on the development team was that of the Jr. UI Programmer with tasks ranging from implementing the help menu to assisting in testing of the game.

Monsterology is the second published game title I worked on. My role on the developement team of monsterology was that of a Jr. UI Programmer. my role consisted of importing of assets, organization of scenes, implementation of UI and In-game functionality, and more

Escape the Dark Forest was an iOS only infinite runner styled game where I acted as a QA Tester . My responsibilities were to test score incrementing, making sure sound and visual effects were synched , make sure I could complete full play throughs and earn the unlockable movie clips at the correct values as well as test button and swipe functionality.

15 week senior project completed by myself and 2 other classmates to fulfill all of our graduation pre-requisites.