Hello, I'm Oliver Adams, building games, tools, and full-stack software
More about me
I'm a graduate software and games programmer with a First Class BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Programming from Kingston University. I build across games and application software: from Unreal and Unity prototypes to production-style tools in C#, .NET, TypeScript, and Node.js.
Recent work includes GeoLingo (a Duolingo-style geography platform), Coverage Lens (a serverless news dashboard), The Cut (a movie ranking app), Sol (a voice-first language tutor), and algorithm-heavy desktop tooling (Word Search Studio). I care about clean architecture, polished UX, and shipping projects end to end.
A closer look at the games and tools I've built: the problems I solved and the tech I used.
Browse projectsDuolingo-style geography trainer with maps, skill trees, and 360+ exercises.
Duolingo-style geography trainer with interactive maps, skill trees, 360+ exercises, streaks, leagues, and Blazor clients for web + mobile: backed by a .NET API on Render.
Live UK news comparator matching stories across major outlets.
Serverless UK news comparator: semantic matching across Guardian, BBC, and Sky with a live CloudFront dashboard and rolling archive.
Rank movies and TV out of 100: compare against IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes.
Personal cinema diary: score titles, compare external ratings, and get spoiler-free AI memory joggers with movies and TV kept separate.
Generate, solve, and export word search puzzles with multiple algorithms.
A puzzle toolkit with backtracking generation, trie-based solving, PDF export, and a WPF desktop app.
Voice-first Spanish tutor powered by Whisper, Groq, and neural TTS.
Voice-first Spanish tutor with push-to-talk, Groq Whisper + LLaMA, 70+ role-play scenarios, and Google Neural2 text-to-speech.
Interactive pathfinding visualiser with BFS, A*, JPS, and AI agents.
Interactive pathfinding visualiser with BFS, DFS, A*, JPS, and behaviour-tree agents on procedural mazes.
Three Manifest V3 extensions to block feeds, ads, and save snippets.
Three Manifest V3 extensions: block short-form feeds, strip sponsored search results, and save code snippets locally.
Games
One-week horror jam: atmosphere and scares on a tight deadline.
Horror game built in one week with a team: scoped for a complete playable loop, focused on tension and atmosphere.
Mobile tower defence: polygon waves, turret upgrades, and camo/lead enemies.
Mobile tower defence with waypoint enemies, JSON wave configs, dual upgrade paths, and special attributes like camo, lead, regen, and split.
FPS movement speedrun level: route power-ups and beat your best time.
Solo FPS movement project: speedrun a neon-lit course, chain movement tech, and route power-ups to finish as fast as possible.
2D platformer where the lights go out once you start moving. Memorise the route.
A 2D platformer built around memorisation: when you start moving, the lights across the level turn off and you have to reach the exit from memory.
Kingston University
First Class Honours: 79%
Game engine development, graphics programming, AI for games, and collaborative studio projects using C++, Unreal Engine, and Unity.
Secondary Education
Computer Science · Geography · Business
Built a strong foundation in programming, analytical thinking, and problem-solving before studying games programming at university.
