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DEAD ON
GAMES

By Elise Burton

ABOUT

Dead On Games is run by me, Elise Burton. I'm a full-time game developer from Northern Ireland. In my spare time, I make games inspired by internet horror, nostalgic early game visuals and retro survival horror games.

RECENT ACTIVITIES

QCON 2024

This June I showcased my work-in-progress game 'Be Not Afraid' at QCon 2024 in Belfast. It was demo-ed as part of the 'Play my Demo' event organised by NI Game Dev Network. It was an amazing experience, I got to meet loads of super-talented local developers and I can't believe the reception my game got. Honestly, I didn't expect anyone to sit down at my booth but after I took these photos, I was so busy for the rest of the day that a queue formed and I didn't have time to eat any lunch.

HALLOWEEN COSTUMES PIXEL CHARACTER PACK

For Halloween, I created some pixel characters I used during a game jam and after I decided to add them as a downloadable asset pack to my Itch.io page.

After a lot of hard work and collaboration with Sound Engineer Ryan Haritgan, we took a demo of Be Not Afraid to NI Game Dev Network's 'Play my demo' event! We got an opportunity to show off the work we'd done in the last few months, talk to some local creators, and get some fantastic feedback from playtesters!