Eliptica
Roles
Level Programmer, Designer and 3D Artist with 2 Developers
Project Description
Insert Coin is an odd trip in the history of early video games, remade using Unreal Engine 4.
The players will go through different levels, spanning from Pong to Pac-Man,
facing interesting twists as they progress.
This game is a submission for the Epic Mega Jam 2020.
Project Date
December, 2020 (7 days)
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Eliptica
Roles
AI Programmer with 2 Artists, 3 Developers
Project Description
A wave-based co-op space ship combat game created
for the Alt Ctrl Game Jam. The players control a
ship moving through an asteroid field with enemies
spawning and attacking them.
The controls were implemented on knobs and buttons with an arduino and later adapted to the keyboard and mouse.
The controls were implemented on knobs and buttons with an arduino and later adapted to the keyboard and mouse.
Project Date
March, 2020 (7 days)
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Sparky and Smith: Under Repair
Roles
Developer, AirConsole/Controls Specialist with 2 Artists, 3 Developers
Project Description
A co-op arcade-puzzle game designed for the Air Console platform, with no written language.
Players need to control 2 different robots by constructing items.
The game is played via AirConsole using any smartphone as a controller,
and is itself accessible through any web browser.
Project Date
February, 2020 (3 days)
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Garden of Memories
Roles
Game Designer/Story Writer/Artist with 2 Developers
Project Description
A narrative-driven puzzle game related to Alzheimer's disease. The players need to solve puzzles in a limited amount of time in order
to help the main character remember her past. Depending on the player's ability to solve the challenges in time, the ending may change.
This game was submitted for the GamesJobsLive Game Parade 2020.
Project Date
October, 2020 (7 days)
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Onirico
Roles
Lead Programmer with 2 Game Designers and 2 Artists
Project Description
This is an academic project, developed for DES502 (Game Design and Development), a module from my MSc in Computer Games Technology.
It is a 3rd-person stealth game. In this vertical slice we get the chance to play as a WW1 veteran, who appears to be back in his
hometown, Aedinbard. The town seems to be covered by some weird fog, and it's crawling with creepy masked men. The main character is
guided towards an ancient church by a voice speaking through old radios scattered around the map.
Aedinbard is a place that seems familiar to our character, but in a way he can't quite understand. The main character would eventually find out that he's been dead for a few centuries, and he's currently experiencing things as an artificially reanimated brain inside a world generated by his simulated consciousness. The people who revived him are the same people that sent the masked men inside this world. Their ultimate goal: to find an eldritch secret that our main character tried to bury in his grave.
Aedinbard is a place that seems familiar to our character, but in a way he can't quite understand. The main character would eventually find out that he's been dead for a few centuries, and he's currently experiencing things as an artificially reanimated brain inside a world generated by his simulated consciousness. The people who revived him are the same people that sent the masked men inside this world. Their ultimate goal: to find an eldritch secret that our main character tried to bury in his grave.
Project Date
March, 2020 (2 months)
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Revolution
Roles
Gameplay Programmer with 2 Developers, 3 Artists, 1 Designer
Project Description
A game jam entry themed around the concept of "Revolution", made for the Abertay Game Dev Society (AGDS) Game Jam.
You play as a crowd shaped like a tetris block fitting through obstacles during a revolution. The aim is
to get to the other side of a level created from a text script written by the artists.
Blue pickups can be used to replenish your fallen comrades or to increase your overall score as you play the game.
Blue pickups can be used to replenish your fallen comrades or to increase your overall score as you play the game.
Project Date
October, 2020 (2 days)
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Procedural Scene
Role
Solo Programmer
Project Description
This is an academic project, developed for CMP505 (Advanced Procedural Methods), a module from my MSc in Computer Games Technology.
It is a navigable 3D scene entirely written using C++ and DirectX11 featuring advanced procedural methods for level generation. To get
a bit more into detail, the techniques used to generate the terrain are: random noise, Perlin noise, faulting, smoothening,
heightmapping, and Voronoi dungeons. The level also features terrain collision, post processing, and a water shader.
Project Date
May, 2020 (1 month)
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SFML Hockey
Role
Solo Programmer
Project Description
This is an academic project, developed for CMP501 (Network Game Development), a module from my MSc in Computer Games Technology.
It is a simple multiplayer game meant for two players, i.e. a top down hockey game, written using SFML and C++.
It features interpolation techniques to tackle down connection errors, such as packet loss, or high latency.
Project Date
February, 2020 (2 weeks)
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Roll-A-Ball AI
Role
Solo Programmer
Project Description
This is an academic project, developed for MAT501 (Applied Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence), a module from my MSc in Computer Games Technology.
The game itself is quite simple: the player controls a ball, facing another enemy ball in a challenge: the objective is to collect more collectible items
than the opponent, while avoiding dangerous items scattered on the board. If the player with the lowest score touches the other player, the latter will
be sent flying away, and will have one point stolen by the attacking player. The game ends as soon as all the collectible items are collected.
The objective of this project was to compare two different AIs. The first implementation of the Enemy AI was achieved through a rule-based system, a simple Finite State Machine, with a predictable behaviour. The second implementation was achieved using ML-Agents, a Unity plugin that uses reinforcement learning. The second AI's behaviour appeared way less predictable and more human, within a certain degree.
The objective of this project was to compare two different AIs. The first implementation of the Enemy AI was achieved through a rule-based system, a simple Finite State Machine, with a predictable behaviour. The second implementation was achieved using ML-Agents, a Unity plugin that uses reinforcement learning. The second AI's behaviour appeared way less predictable and more human, within a certain degree.
Project Date
January, 2020 (3 weeks)
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Minecraft GAN
Role
Solo Programmer
Project Description
This is an academic project, developed as part of my thesis, "Using Generative Adversarial Networks for Content Generation in Games",
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MSc in Computer Games Technology.
For the scope of this project I've trained a GAN model using Minecraft data, in order to generate Minecraft worlds using semantically labeled images. The model is based on SPADE, a GAN model developed by Nvidia. An example of what can be achieved with semantic labeling can be seen at GauGAN. The training data was kindly provided by Microsoft, which holds intellectual property over it. For this sensible reason, this project's repository is not available, but the means to achieve the results I've obtained have been described thoroughly in the dissertation.
The objective of this project was to evaluate the possibility of game world generation using a GAN.
For the scope of this project I've trained a GAN model using Minecraft data, in order to generate Minecraft worlds using semantically labeled images. The model is based on SPADE, a GAN model developed by Nvidia. An example of what can be achieved with semantic labeling can be seen at GauGAN. The training data was kindly provided by Microsoft, which holds intellectual property over it. For this sensible reason, this project's repository is not available, but the means to achieve the results I've obtained have been described thoroughly in the dissertation.
The objective of this project was to evaluate the possibility of game world generation using a GAN.
Project Date
June, 2020 (3 months)
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Quiz Battle Editor
Role
Solo Programmer
Project Description
This is an academic project, developed as part of my thesis, "QuBE - The Quiz Battle Editor: An environment for educational game development",
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of BSc in Computer Science.
For the scope of this project I've done some research in the context of educational games and gamification, in order to make a tool for educators to improve knowledge retention in students. The end product is a browser based tool meant for educators called QuBE. Through this tool, the educators can easily gamify a questionnaire-based test. The students will face virtual challenges where they have to defeat fake adversaries by answering the questions that prompt on screen before their enemies.
For the scope of this project I've done some research in the context of educational games and gamification, in order to make a tool for educators to improve knowledge retention in students. The end product is a browser based tool meant for educators called QuBE. Through this tool, the educators can easily gamify a questionnaire-based test. The students will face virtual challenges where they have to defeat fake adversaries by answering the questions that prompt on screen before their enemies.
Project Date
June, 2017 (3 month)
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