Gameplay and AI Programmer
A fast-paced arcade action game with a comical twist, made by a team of about 20. I worked mainly on the AI: the four enemy archetypes (melee, ranged, explosive and a tank mini-boss) in StateTree with C++ and Blueprints. I also built the enemy spawners and an object pool, as a plugin.
XEMA is an engine I built entirely myself in C++ and OpenGL: an ECS architecture, deferred PBR rendering with shadow mapping and instancing, a JobSystem, Lua scripting and PhysX.
I designed and built core gameplay systems: a component-based dialogue system, an AI perception system integrated with the behaviour trees, and a radio communication system. I also worked on the Behavior Graph, general gameplay mechanics, profiling and bug fixing.
A class exercise on AI Perception and EQS in Unreal Engine, with enemies and NPCs driven by a behaviour tree. After handing it in, I rebuilt it on my own with free assets and rewrote the AI from scratch in StateTree.
Built for Mini Jam 157: Electric. The player is a maintenance robot keeping a failing nuclear plant online: reactor components break down on a timer and power cables across the facility have to be traced and reconnected before the city loses power.
A roguelike puzzle game: solving procedurally generated sudoku grids earns you coins and items, and mistakes cost you lives. Between puzzles, you spend your coins in a shop. Special encounters change the rules: frozen cells that thaw as correct numbers are placed, or wind that removes numbers you have to place again.
A survival game. The player pilots an exploration submarine down to the ruins of a lost civilisation at abyssal depth, recovering as many valuable minerals as possible and surfacing with them before running out of resources.
I'm a game programmer focused on game AI, gameplay systems and procedural generation. I developed the enemy AI for Beerserker: The Stolen Brew and wrote XEMA, my own C++ and OpenGL engine, which taught me how engines are put together.
I work with Unreal and Unity. Before games I spent two and a half years as a fullstack developer on ERP software.
Game enginesUnreal Engine 5 (UE5) with C++ & Blueprints, Unity (C#)
AI & gameplayStateTree, Behavior Trees, EQS (Environment Query System), AI Perception, Animation systems, Object pooling
LanguagesC++ (C++17, C++20, C++23, STL), C#, C, ARM64 assembly, Lua
Graphics & systemsOpenGL 4.5 DSA, Deferred shading / PBR, Vertex & fragment shaders, Entity Component System (ECS), Multithreading & job systems, Memory management & pointers
Debugging & profilingVisual Studio debugger, Unreal Insights, RenderDoc
Version controlGit, Perforce, Plastic SCM
Outside gamesTypeScript / JavaScript, HTML / CSS, Vue.js, SQL Server, Java, VB.NET
I'm looking for a gameplay or AI programming position in Unreal Engine or Unity. If you have an opening, or want more detail on any of these projects, email me.
anduezadev@gmail.com