Thomas Kewell Design

Take control of your own starship in a cut-throat galaxy. 400 Billion Star Systems. Infinite Freedom. Blaze Your Own Trail Start with a small starship and a few credits, and do whatever it takes to get the skill, knowledge, wealth and power to stand among the ranks of the Elite. In the year 3300, across the vast expanse of an epic, full-scale recreation of our Milky Way, interstellar rivalries flare as galactic superpowers fight proxy wars. Some may know you as an ally; others will call you a pirate, a bounty hunter, a smuggler, an explorer, an assassin, a hero... Fly alone or with friends, fight for a cause or go it alone; your actions change the galaxy around you in an ever unfolding story. The Official Launch Trailer for Elite: Dangerous Elite: Dangerous is a grand scale, AAA space exploration and combat game and the third sequel to 1984's classic game Elite.  We created a 1:1 scale replica of the milky way galaxy, using real world star library da...

Kinect Disneyland Adventures Format: XBOX 360 + Kinect Metacritic: 73 http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/kinect-disneyland-adventures "Harnessing the controller-free magic of Kinect for Xbox 360, Kinect: Disneyland Adventures will allow children and Disney fans of all ages to explore Disneyland park, enjoy immersive adventures based on popular attractions, engage in challenging quests, and interact with beloved Disney characters using their full bodies and voices, no controller required. Kinect: Disneyland Adventures is your ticket to the magical world of Disneyland through Kinect, right in your living room. " Kinect Disneyland Aventures allows the player to freely explore a highly accurate and detailed version of Anaheim's famous Disneyland theme park.  Using the kinect, the player is free to explore the park and discover the various attractions and hidden secrets with their avatar character.  Disneylands theme park has been created to an exacting d...

Create is a game developed by EA Brightlight studios that came out in November 2010.  In create players are called on to decorate game worlds in various styles, and then solve a number of 2D physics based puzzles within that level.  Each of creates 15 levels is based on a different theme, with themed decorative and gameplay objects waiting to be unlocked in each (although once unlocked these can be used to remix other levels). official website http://www.create.ea.com Wii metacritic: 62 http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii/create PS3 metacritic: 61 http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii/create Xbox360 metacritic: 60 http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/create Each level contains 10 physics puzzles, and 5 decoration objectives that must be completed to earn each reward.  Of the physics puzzles, each was divided into 4 categories: Object Challenges - involve the player using a limited selection of objects to solve an objective...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 & 2 Format: XBox 360, Playstation 3, Wii and PC Metacritic: Between 38 - 49 across various formats " Step into the roles of your favourite heroes in the epic finale of the entertainment event of the decade. Playing as Harry and other key characters in the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 videogame, you are on a dangerous and urgent quest to locate and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, and with them, Voldemort." My first design role was working for EA Brightlight as a junior designer.  As part of a team of designers I worked on both Deathly Hallows video games, released simultaneously with the films.  The games were designed to follow the action of the films, with third person cover shooter gameplay themed around the harry potter universe.   Originally the studios intention was to create a cover shooter for the HD consoles of the time (the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC), and to create a different version of t...

Zombies!!! is a board game that can be played by up to 6 players based in a city that is infected by zombies.  Normally the game board is built by placing 1 3x3 square tile at the start of each players turn, however I found that this system could lead to boring games and miss opportunities to use some of the game's features.  In order to create a more defined game experience I created a custom scenario, where the city is already laid out and the players must complete a series of objectives within a certain number of turns. To allow a certain amount of balancing, one player must usually play as Zombie master, and use their turn to move and spawn a random (d6) number of zombies each turn.  The following is the gameplay notes and city map used to play a game of Zombies: Special operations!!! Zombies!!! Special Ops Briefing It is exactly 14 days after z-day, the first record of the zombie infection outbreak. You are one of several soliders and survivors that mad...

Stunt fighters is a personal project with the aim of creating a prototype game that I could develop myself, showcasing level designs and allowing me to develop my knowledge of java as a scripting language.  The game design is purposefully simplistic to suit casual gamers, and to allow me to scale and add features as my knowledge of java increased.  The prototype was developed using the Unity editor.

Nintendo Wii,  DS and iPhone Guinness world records: the videogame allows the player to attempt to break a number of different world records with their customized character avatar and compete online to be the official world record holder for each event.  These world records were represented in by a series of mini games that the player could access from a world hub.  Each mini game was designed with gestures or touch controls that suited the real life action of the player. On Guinness world records I worked as an artist creating character costumes for special unlocks in the game.  I also generated assets used in the GUI and in the various game worlds. http://www.guinnessworldrecordsgame.com/ Wii metacritic: 67 http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii/guinness-world-records-the-videogame DS metacritic: 70 http://www.metacritic.com/game/ds/guinness-world-records-the-videogame A player attempts the Tight rope walk world record.  The Wii mote is held horizont...