The Witcher: Ties of Destiny

• Role: Engine and gameplay programmer
• Date: February 2020 - June 2020
• Project page: Show me!

This project is an action Hack & Slash video game tribute to The Witcher series, result of a team of 30 people, a whole class of students in third course. It is a cooperative game for two players, which will have to play as Geralt or Jaskier, each one with their different abilities and combat style, and overcome waves of different types of enemies to manage to get their way to the victory. To create it we developed our own game engine, Broken Engine, using C++ and a group of open third-party libraries, such as OpenGL, PhysX or Recast, and using Lua as our scripting language.

The Witcher: Ties of Destiny is considered one of the most impressive games ever developed in the Design and Development of Video Games Bachelor’s Degree and in the Master's Degree by its Jesús Alonso, former director of the degree and master in question, and by Ricard Pillosu, former Crytek Development Director and Technical Manager. Their testimonials are visible to read in the web of the project.

Personal contribution:

• Scripting System: Homogenization for all scripting functions, programmed several of those functions myself. Script initialization, save and load of scripts and variable editing from the engine inspector.
• Pause Menu: Whole development of the in-game pause menu.
• Main Menu: Programming the main menu and building its scene in the engine.
• Tutorial: Developed part of the steps of the tutorial.
• Screamer Ghoul: An agile and elusive enemy that tries to be at a certain distance from the players from where it can annoy them and constantly summon lesser monsters.
• Enemy Distribution: Tested spawner positions to check the performance and balancing the waves of enemies.
• QA: Playtesting the game looking for bugs and ensuring it had the desired difficulty.

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Percularity Engine

• Role: Programmer
• Date: September 2019 - December 2019
• Project page: Show me!

Percularity is an OpenGL based game engine, programmed from scratch with C++ and using some other open third-party libraries. It was developed in third course by two students. The purpouse of the subject was to build a project useful enough it could allow us to develop a game with the whole class as a big team. Using pairs, each team developed their own version of the program with the idea of mergeing the best parts of each of them into the best game engine we could get.

Personal contribution:

• Created and programmed GameObjects, as well as their mesh, material and rigidbody components. I also programmed how are they seen in the hierarchy
• Serialization of the engine scenes, through the implementation of a save and load of scene files using JSON.
• Development of the Resource Manager and Percularity Engine's own file format.
• Development and personalization of the engine's user interface using Dear ImGui.
• Import (with drag and drop) and export of models and textures, using Assimp and DevIL respectively.
• Implementation of the car and the spheres to test the collisions and physics of the scene.
• Implementation of Undo & Redo functionalities.

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The Cliffborn Islands

• Role: Programmer and designer
• Date: October 2018 - December 2018
• Project page: Show me!

The Cliffborn Islands is a 2D platformer game that was purely developed with C++ with SDL by a couple of second year students. We used Tiled for the creation of the two levels of the game, and it has different enemies that use pathfinding to try to attack the player, who can attack them or scape. Furthermore, the game has a save and load system that uses XML files.

Even though it was not demanded from us we also decided to implement a hook to provide more mobility and more variety of platforming tools for the player. It was quite an interesting challenge.

Personal contribution:

• Creation and implementation of the graphic user interface system.
• Programmed the collision system.
• Controls and mechanics of the player and the hook.
• Capped the game to 60 FPS and normalized the movement of the entities using delta time.
• Design and creation of the second level.
• Creation of the logotype.

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DOS Attack

• Role: Programmer
• Date: November 2020 - December 2020
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DOS Attack is a simple multiplayer game developed by two 4th grade students. In it you control a computer system that surfs through a network and that battles with up to 4 other players to see which one can get more kills. Being a reskined space shooter, the objective is to send Denial-of-Service attacks from your PC to the other computer systems that are connected to the game until you shut them down, at the same time you move to avoid theirs.

Personal contribution:

• World State Replication
• Delivery Manager
• Client Prediction & Server Reconciliation
• Entity Interpolation

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Radical Encounter

• Role: Programmer
• Date: September 2019 - December 2019
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Radical Encounter is a God Game made with Unity in which the player is in charge of a group of activists that are defending their little village against a series of different enemy soldiers. They are going to attack them and also damage the buildings and the infrastructure of the place, so you will have both to assist the people and repair the patrimony, all with the help of the resources you will acquire by slaining and saving your comrades. We programmed the artifficial intelligence and the behaviour of all the characters.

Personal contribution:

• Programmed obstacle avoidance and entity separation steering behaviors.
• Programmed the different interactions between the characters.
• Developmed the behavior trees of the three types of characters with Node Canvas.
• Creation of the graphic user interface of the game.
• Creation of the scenery.

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ViPet

• Role: Programmer
• Date: May 2020
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ViPet is a simple mobile game developed by three third year students in four days using Unity and Vuforia. In it, you take care of a virtual pet, playing with him, feeding and caressing him. He has three different state bars, each one with its own specific related actions, and you have to ensure none of them drops down to 50%. Depending on how he is feeling, the mascot shows his different emotions. We use two AR targets, one for each game scenery.

Personal contribution:

• Programmed Caress and Throw the ball actions with Unity's screen touch API.
• Programmed part of the pet state manager.
• Implemented Vuforia and linked each target with a different scenery.
• Development of the graphic user interface.

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Torpedo Inbound

• Role: Programmer and designer
• Date: June 2019
• Project page: Show me!

Torpedo Inbound is a Game Jam project made by 5 students during the 2nd CITM Game Jam. It is a submarine shooter game in the depths of the ocean that was developed with the Unity 2D Engine and the Tiled Map Editor. In it the player confronts treacherous sea mines and other submarines. As a player you can either throw your own mines or shoot powerful torpedos. Besides, the deeper you go, the darker the scenery becomes, so the submarine has a front spotlight that helps it illuminate towards where it is facing.

That Game Jam was the first for all the members of the team and only one of us had previously worked a bit with Unity before, so we were watching tutorials and learning how the engine worked at the same time we were making the game.

Personal contribution:

• Implemented player shots.
• Implemented all the explosions.
• Programmed enemy submarines' movement.
• Participated creating the map.
• Created Game Over scene.
• Added sound effects.

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Cursed Heaven

• Role: Team lead and programmer
• Date: February 2019 - June 2019
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Cursed Heaven is an isometric RPG Roguelike video game based in Final Fantasy Tactics that was developed in C++ by seven students in second course. In it you have two different characters with their own abilities that must overcome all sorts of enemies and two bosses, one for each level, in order to beat the game. There is also a shop in each level where you can buy health potions or improve your character's statistics.

Personal contribution:

• Leaded the project, managing the weekly team meetings and handling the task distribution.
• Developed both playable characters.
• Implemented the shop on both levels and programmed its items.
• Developed some of the enemies, as well as the Mindflyer, the boss of the first leve.
• Implemented the save and load with XML.
• Helped developing the graphic user interface.
• Balanced the game.

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Andro Dunos

• Role: Quality assurance and programmer
• Date: February 2018 - June 2018
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This project was an Andro Dunos recreation tribute to the original side-scrolling shoot'em up game, purely developed in C++ with SDL by five students on first year. With the possibilities of both playing it as a single player or cooperative game, the players take the control of a spaceship that faces different threats and a final boss that has to overcome in order to achieve the victory. In this tribute we did not reproduce the whole game, but just one of its levels, for which we used existing assets that we took from the original product. Consequently, our work consisted of coding and doing the required QA.

Personal contribution:

• Implemented controller inputs and part of the control of the players.
• Programmed the behaviour of the turrets, meteorites and most enemy spaceships.
• Full development of the final boss.
• Built the level scenery and the collidsion system.
• Developedment of the graphic user interface and the score tracker.
• Audio implementation.
• Finding and fixing bugs or memory leaks.

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