Sam Griffiths

Games & Interactive Student in Devon, United Kingdom

Hi, my name is Sam and I am currently a student studying games and interactive design at university. I am currently doing work in game development, software development, and writing. I also have further interests in environment and prop art, filmmaking, photography, music, and travelling.

This is my personal website used to write blog posts on interesting things I am working on, displaying my personal projects, and displaying contact information.

Software

Unreal Engine

Blender

Substance Painter

Substance Designer

Photoshop / Affinity Photo

Premiere Pro / Davinci Resolve

FL Studio

Godot

Programming Languages

C++

Python

Spoken Languages

English (Native)

Swedish (Intermediate)

Korean (Beginner)

Spanish (Beginner)

Website Roadmap

This is a static website built purely with custom html and css and features no trackers or non functional cookies.

2024

Complete Visual Rework

Merge CSS Files

Set up an RSS feed for the projects and blog pages

Set up home page and figure out what should be showcased on there

Write and Post "Slate Productivity" blog post and projects page with roadmap and link to gitlab repository

Write and Post "CS2 Smoke Grenades" blog post

Write and post "Procedural Weapon System in Prelude" blog post

2023

Post "A Long Way Down rendering techniques" blog post

Fully set up projects page with each entry linking to either a temporary artstation link or dedicated project page

Fill out "About" page with some information about me and a roadmap for the website

Create contact page with email, and other information on how to get in touch

Get a basic projects page up and running

Create a JSON file in website files for Unreal Engine integration to enable fetching game data like current version, verified users for playtests, etc.

Post "Half Lambert shader" blog post

Create a nice looking header file with easy access to important areas of the site

Add tagging for blog posts for better organisation

Remove file suffixes

Design blog posts page with unique list structure

Get source control working correctly

Organise file structure for projects, blog posts, and essential website resources

Layout footer with social links and icons to accompany them

Verify Mastodon with website

Design a style for the website and assign the CSS file for it

Website Creation