Niall Moody - All Work

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A Yet-Unforeclosed Possibility of Freedom and Joy: An interactive talk about old game dev subcultures, Klik & Play, and the necessity of spaces that don't revolve around hard work and your ability to produce on demand.
Unreal Audio Base: A third person puzzle project intended as a base for exploring audio implementation in Unreal.
Dundee Tabletop Playtesting Meetup: A casual meetup for playtesting tabletop games at Cake or Dice in Dundee.
Daemonium Motus: Demon summoning ritual via online personality quiz.
Arcadia Playful Design Workshop: Playful design workshop run with James Morwood and Malath Abbas.
no longer be still: An album of atmospheric ambient, recorded under the while falling alias.
Biome Collective Community YouTube: A YouTube channel documenting the work Biome Collective members have done since 2020.
The Great Caledonian Forest Race: A handmade racing game/hidden object game made with v buckenham's Downpour.

Street Pixel: Interactive digital paving slabs.
Audio Programming Resources: A collection of audio programming resources I have created, hosted on github.

Game Design as Play: An academic research project into games designed by their players during play.
Folk Games Collection: A collection of folk games I've collected as part of my "Game Design as Play" academic research.
making it up as we go along: A game about making up your own rules as you play.
Folk Games Workshops: Folk games workshops run as part of my "Game Design as Play" academic research.
dream geography: A record of the places I have visited in my dreams.
Incoming Tide: Online version of Miek Zwamborn's poem Incoming Tide.

Telemaphoneroo: An online telephone game about making nonsense words together.
forest song: A musical forest guarded by a talkative bloblin.
Waterstrawberry: Online version of Miek Zwamborn's poem Waterstrawberry.
Land of Angry Waves: An interactive map of projects undertaken as part of KNOCKvologan Studies.
SKMU Virtual: A custom likelike gallery built for Sørlandets Kunstmuseum.
A MAZE. likelike Workshop: Workshop run for A MAZE., providing an introduction to making your own likelike gallery.
GAIA likelike Workshop: Workshop run for Game Arts International, providing an introduction to making your own likelike gallery.
black and secret places: An abstract walking simulator project, developed with Yann Seznec.

Interactive Bit Depth Demonstration: An interactive demonstration of bit depth as it relates to digital audio.
Interactive Aliasing Demonstration: An interactive demonstration of aliasing as it applies to digital audio.
Biome Gallery: An online space built with other members of Biome Collective.
Games for Quiet Kingdoms: A zine collecting gamepoems I wrote during lockdown.
Lockdown Paintings: A series of paintings I did during the first lockdown.
Abertay Alt Controller Jam 2020: Alt Ctrl jam for Abertay students.
RAISE YOUR DOUGHY MONUMENTS TO THE ECHOING SKIES ABOVE: A race to be the first to build a playdough monument to the sky.
Basic Electronics for Artists & Game Devs: 1: A zine explaining how to use a Teensy LC microcontroller to connect a button to your computer.

here and then gone: A monthly newsletter containing a link to an interactive work of some kind that is deleted at the end of the month.
james_pond_2_codename_robocod_(1991)(millenium)(disk_1_of_13)[cr_nem][t_+57_hmgbrd]: A short essay on Amiga intros and trainers.

this is a refuge: flatgame / drone machine / sanctuary
LibPdIntegration: A libpd wrapper for incorporating Pure Data patches into Unity.
ShoutFight!: Simon Says but with shouting.
Art is Forbidden: A game about creating public art in secret.
Breaking Out of the Frame: An event-specific game created for Mona Bozdog's Generation ZX(X) event.
The Festival of Improbable Instruments: An introduction to building your own musical instruments.
Shpeel: Custom controller for the Shpeel installation.

Hummingbird Controller: Custom physical controller for my Hummingbird game.
Diary of Peggy Elizabeth Causer: Hand-bound and typeset copy of my Nan's diary of the Blitz.
The Craigallian Fire: A flatgame about the Great Depression, Glasgow, and the Right to Roam.
Harpoon!: An arcade game designed to demonstrate the elements of game feel or juice.
Edinburgh Science Festival: Play On: 5 interactive exhibits built for the Play On exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland.
noerase: Glitch art tool for drawing with Windows applications and window decorations.

Competitive Cuddling Simulator Controller: Controller for Vaida Plankyte's Competitive Cuddling Simulator.
lingeringInMirroredPlanes: A game of interpreting your computer's idiosyncratic descriptions of a room as music.
awaitingTheProjectedCurve: Part procedural storyteller, part endless drone generator.
Hummingbird: An infinite procedural musical exploration game.
A Dance of Whispered Truths: A live event collaboration with the band Mantra Collective.
GrainSketch: An augmented sketching tool, functioning a bit like a granular synthesizer.
Leaving Hungry Waters: A series of procedural snapshots of the sea.

Whispered Truths Controller: Custom controller built for A Diary of Whispered Truths and A Dance of Whispered Truths.
Mount Pleasant Drive: A broken audiovisual radio.
[encrypted]: A short-form abstract roguelike, with accompanying zine.
MUSIC IS FOR EVERYONE: A 4-player music improvisation game.
Never To Tell: A shortform puzzle roguelike watched over by a pair of capricious disembodied heads.

Dark is Yonder Town: Ten-track album and fold-out book inspired in part by two old Scottish prayers.
A Diary of Whispered Truths: An idiosyncratic audiovisual drawing tool/musical instrument
Wake Up, Little One: My last game of 2014.
...and all those lonesome stars: A (massively?) local multiplayer deathmatch, supporting up to 80 players.
Gravity Series: 7 gravity-themed local multiplayer games.

All Will Be Artists: 12-page zine about the future of music and the potential software affords for radical change.
All Their Fever Dreams: Audiovisual sketching controlled via gamepad.
DANCETIME!: Flashing colours, dancing, and a very messy sequencer.
Minimal 2 Player Game: A 'minimal' 2-player game.
So Many Jagged Shards: An abstract game about squeezing through awkward spaces and gradually gaining the ability to manipulate those spaces to your advantage.

Triangle vs. Square: Fast-paced 2-player asymmetric snake game.
Screaming Snakeball: 2-player football game with snake tales and screaming.
Pastarena: Clipboard-based musical arena shooter.
Dwindling Worlds: A short abstract puzzle game about a series of diminishing worlds.
Pedalboard2: A VST plugin host designed for live use.

Rainbow Space Donkey Escape: Avoid evil Santas and find your way back to your Rainbow Space Donkey herd.
The Divine is Hidden Behind the Noise of the World: A game made for Super Friendship Club's Mysticism pageant.
Neon Lights: A one-handed autofire arena shooter.

Labyrinth: A labyrinth of images.
The Lair of Fungal Wonder: Side-scrolling shooter/non-shooter very loosely inspired by Jeff Vandermeer's Ambergris.
Luciente's War: Music-driven game based loosely on Marge Piercy's 'Woman on the Edge of Time'.
The Lost Hebrides: Find your way to the enchanted isles in the West to get the flower that will save your father's life.

png2ico: Software to create a Windows ico file from a series of differently-sized png images.