Evan Puah

Fawn The Florist

Producer, UI Design & Programmer

• UNITY
• STEAM

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Snap Lake Adventures

Producer, Quest/ NPC Programming & Marketing

• Unity VR
• Meta Quest 2/3

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Evan Puah

Producer, General & UI Programmer

• Itch.io
• LinkedIn
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Hello! o/

I'm Evan Puah, a Brisbane based developer specialising in producing and UI programming in Unity. I enjoy diving into the many facets of game development, constantly learning and expanding my skill set to build fun and engaging games.Skills I'm Best At...

Skills

Game Engines & Programming

Editing/ Project Management

Education

Bachelor of Games and Interactive Environments/ Business
Queensland University of Technology
2021 - 2025

Certificate

Certificate III in Screen and Media
LIGHTMARE STUDIOS Paid Traineeship
2020 - 2021

About the game

In Snap Lake Adventures, you step into the role of a nature photographer, rowing your boat through a tranquil lake teeming with life. Guided by the friendly park ranger Rio and armed with your camera, you'll explore, observe, and uncover the lake’s hidden secrets—capturing perfect wildlife moments one paddle at a time.

Specifications

A student project made for subject IGB388

• Unity VR
• Meta Quest 2/3
• 6 Weeks

• Download and Play via Itch.io

Developed By: Team Cozyboats

Project Outcomes

This project gave me a deeper understanding of VR game development, including both its strengths and its limitations. Because the game relied heavily on movement-based mechanics, it became clear how essential it is to test frequently with a diverse range of VR users to minimise motion sickness and ensure a comfortable player experience. I particularly enjoyed exploring effective ways to communicate quest objectives and completions within a VR space, which allowed me to further develop my UI design skills for 3D environments.The project also strengthened my project management abilities. Unexpected disruptions caused by cyclone events, along with the addition of a showcase, required the team to remain flexible and adapt our priorities and resource allocation accordingly.

As a result of the team’s hard work, we were successful in being selected to showcase our game at the QUT Immersive Festival 2025 and QUT Open Day. Through this experience, I further developed my marketing skills by creating promotional posters, building an Itch.io store page, and producing gameplay footage. It also gave me valuable experience presenting a game in a public setting and preparing a booth that was safe, accessible, and enjoyable for all players.

Making Rio's Interactions

Rio's initial design was simple with a text box appearing as the player was in vicinity. This proved unintuitive as players often missed the textbox due to the direction they were looking at. To resolve this, I recorded voice lines for Rio via Audacity and implement them with spatial audio. To further draw attention and give feedback Rio would play an animation when a quest was selected, completed or the player entered/ left the quest area.

These changes made Rio more engaging, immersive and prevented soft locks.

The Photo Submission Box

Similarly, the photo box lacked feedback making it difficult for players to know if they were submitting properly. To resolve this a blue outline appeared when a photo could be dropped, relevant sound effects added and a text display given to say why whether a photo was accepted or rejected. At times players left a photo in and could not submit a photo. As such an auditory cue telling the player to remove the photo was made.

Data Logging

As part of the subject, we implemented data logging in Unity to track metrics such as time played, photos taken, and task completion times. This data allowed us to refine the game, evaluate improvements, and make informed design decisions.

About the game

As the renowned detective Steve De’gunn you are uniquely qualified to solve otherwise unsolved crimes through your dimension switching ability named Aletheia. Aletheia allows you to see the hidden nature of the world and its people to discover truths that would never show in reality. Gather evidence and testimonies, analyse to find the truth and interrogate the suspect to break their alibi to bring justice for all.

Specifications

Made as part of the Pirate Software GameJam 16

• UNITY
• PC - WebGL
• 2 Weeks

• Play Online via Itch.io

Developed By

Project Outcomes

Athletheia’s Gun would be my first game jam and opportunity to work with students from other universities. The project helped me establish a working method for team communication and information distribution keeping tasks on track and all members informed, particularly important as we were a virtual team. I learnt the importance of flexibility, creating new project management to facilitate new needs and conversely dropping project management that was not fit for purpose. It was also my first opportunity to fully embrace a proactive producer style. As much of the team was new to game development setting check-in dates for tasks allowed for features to be fixed or solutions proposed before they became problems.Working with a UI artist allowed me to learn a collaborative workflow where I would mock-up what would be feasible from concepts drawn before finalising and refining assets. I would also gain valuable experience in the foundations of UI within Unity, creating inventory and quest tracking systems as well as integrating existing code tools such as Fungus with these systems to reduce workload broadening my UI and general programming skills.Overall, the team succeeded in creating a simple, fun and polished visual novel within 2 weeks that placed respectably at 256 out of 1,745 entries with positive feedback from the judging team.

Working with Fungus Plugin

As the sole programmer with no prior visual novel experience, I chose to streamline development by using a plugin to handle core functionality. This allowed me to quickly prototype UI designs and give the artists clear guidance on required assets.We used Fungus, a free (though deprecated) Unity tool, which provided everything we needed. Its active Discord community helped me overcome knowledge gaps. Fungus uses blueprint-style block coding but can also be extended with scripts, allowing me to add custom functions beyond its built-in capabilities.Fungus was used to implement the text writer, multi-dialogue, scene transitions and Alethetia's Switch.

Publishing for WebGL

Knowing the game would be played on a website, I focused on making the user experience seamless and fully functional. I ensured WebGL elements displayed correctly, the game’s name was accurate, and the fullscreen button was accessible. During testing, I also checked compatibility across multiple browsers to make the game easier to play and ensure a smoother judging experience during the game jam.

About the game

Fawn the Florist is a cozy idle game that sits at the bottom of your screen, creating a peaceful companion for you as you work, study, or relax.

Specifications

Game made as part of the final year capstone subject

• UNITY
• STEAM (Windows + Mac)
• 9 Months

• Play the Game on Steam
• Website

Developed By

CozyBit Games

Team Leads

Game Design Team

Programming Team

Art Team

Marketing Team

Project Outcomes

Fawn the Florist represents the culmination of my university development experience and the largest production I have led, spanning nine months across four disciplines and eleven team members.As producer, I established team workflows, clear responsibilities, strong communication flows and realistic milestones to maintain alignment across all disciplines. Establishing these quickly empowered discipline leads to make independent decisions allowing me to focus on cross-discipline coordination, early problem resolution, and maintaining production momentum.I ensured to build in flexibility within the project plan (for rest, sickness or setbacks) which helped prevent burnout, enabled consistent progress and allowed us to take advantage of opportunities such as Steam Next Fest, Mac support and showcasing our game at SuperNova.Alongside production, I led UI implementation working closely with artists and designers to create an aesthetic and functional interact within a limited screen space. I was able to build confidence in creating scalable interface systems that could easily be used by automation and planting mechanics and learnt UI animations and tweening for a more reactive UI experience for players. I also learnt how to use the Steam API features including achievements and analytics to add extra depth to the gameplay and allow the team to better track progression or use statistic for marketing.These efforts contributed to the team achieving a strong launch, reaching 559+ unique users, average playtime of 6 hours, 95% positive Steam reviews (Out of 26 reviews), and a 25.8% wishlist conversion rate within two months. This reception was beyond our expectations and heartwarming to see players giving feedback, requesting refinements, creating fanart or guides to help each other.

Steam Next Fest

Results