Programmer | Game Design
JOHN ENGSTROM
John is a highly talented programmer and game designer
GAMES
NATURE RUNNER
Unity Game Audio | 2022
A brief game scene to collect the question marks scattered around the beautiful nature location. Audio designed and implemented in Unity Game Engine by Jason Keen.
Credits
Graphic assets: Synty Studios
Scripting: Jason Keen & Nick Harrison
Audio design and implementation: Jason Keen
NIGHTMARE MANSION
Unity Game Audio | 2022
A game prototype, featuring several different gameplay elements, as well as working as a portfolio of audio works. All audio design and implementation completed in the FMOD middleware for Unity Game Engine by Jason Keen.
Credits
Graphic assets: Synty Studios
C# scripting: Jason Keen & Nick Harrison
Audio design and implementation: Jason Keen
Dialogue: Replica Studios AI Text to speech generator
ANIMATIONS
DIABLO II LORD OF DESTRUCTION
Animation Audio | 2022
The original opening cinematic for the Diablo II Lord Of Destruction expansion by Blizzard Entertainment, completely rebuilt by Jason Keen. Edited and mixed in Pro Tools
Credits
Animation: Blizzard Studios
Audio design, editing and mixing: Jason Keen
Voice acting: Jason Keen & Mark Trewin
ENDANGERED
Animation Audio | 2021
Endangered is a short film trailer created by SAE Animation students, using advanced motion capture technology. Sound design and implementation completed in Pro Tools by Jason Keen.
Credits
Written and directed by Cameron Griffith
Produced by Ali Merhi
Animation: Josh Dowling, Nathan Waters, Siyao Song, Dinh Manh Nguyen, Elsie Hoya
Sound design: Jason Keen
Voice Acting: Emily Moustafa, Nathan Pahljina, Leanne Cusinato
TINY TERROR
Animation Audio | 2021
Tiny Terror is a short animation film created by SAE Animation students. It follows Angela, a young girl who is woken by strange noises emanating from the kitchen downstairs. She musters up all of her courage in a bid to see what is making the commotion.
Credits
Written by Josh Downling, Cameron Griffith, Anthea Kruger, Ali Mu
Directed by Ali Mu
Produced by Cameron Griffith
Animation: Josh Downling, Cameron Griffith, Anthea Kruger, Ali Mu
Audio director and editor: Jason Keen
Composition: Hamish Muir
Foley and FX: Cory Welsh and Jason Keen
MUSIC
R U Mine?
Music Soundalike | 2021
This is a completely rerecorded soundalike version of the Artic Monkeys song 'R U Mine?'
The idea of this was to recreate the song as closely to the original as possible, using the resources available to us.
Credits
Recorded, Engineered, Produced and mixed by: Jason Keen, Cory Welsh, Matthew Boyd, Jackson Clarke and Thomas Copeland
Musicians:
Drums: Jef Vandervorst
Bass: Jason Keen
Guitars: Nicholas
Vocals: Israel Shep
THE ANCIENT KING
Wanderer | 2022
Single from the band Wanderer, from the upcoming album 'Passage'.
Credits
Recorded, Produced and mixed by: Jason Keen
Engineered by: Jason Keen, Jason Rudzyn and Rory Heyward
Music and lyrics by: Shane Hoffmann and Jason Keen
Musicians:
Drums: Andy Robilliard
Bass: Jason Keen
Guitars: Shane Hoffmann
Vocals: Daniel Harwood
BOOKS
BIOCOM
Paperback | 2014
Imagine waking up not knowing who or where you are...
The year is 2070, societal peace hangs in the balance as the most powerful corporation on the planet controls the governments and the police. The people are left suffering at every turn.
A nameless man wakes in the hospital with no memory of who he is or how he came to be there.
John Doe, as he’s affectionately called by the hospital staff sets off in the pursuit of answers and gets drawn into a dangerous global conspiracy in a high-tech dystopia that’s completely alien to him.
Accompanied by a band of freedom fighting rebels, John must find out the truth to his past if he wants any chance at a future and saving the world.
THE DEAD SEA SECRET
Paperback | 2013
When a University field trip to Israel unearths a 2,000 year old text in a hidden cave at Qumran it sets in motion events that could mean the end of society as we know it.
After University lecturer and Dead Sea expert Jack Perry gets the text he quickly discovers a riddle within the text and is thrust into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with an ancient sect, hell-bent on obtaining the secrets alluded to in the riddle and using them for total control of the planet.
Spanning Europe and the Middle East, Jack sees some of the best locations the world has to offer. But will he live long enough to tell the tale? Will Jack solve the riddle and discover The Dead Sea Secret?
DARK CITY
Paperback | 2013
In a dark near future city plagued by crime and corruption, one man’s quest for vengeance could be the path to redemption for a broken city, or it could condemn the city to ruin.