Gameplay Programmer & Technical Game Designer
I build combat, progression and the level tools designers use to tune them, in Unity/C# and Unreal/C++. My work on adaptive difficulty is published in Springer LNCS, and I am finishing a thesis on League of Legends balance.
Two shipped solo projects and the Unreal arena game I am building now.
Solo Programmer and Designer
I wanted to test level layouts without rebuilding the game, so I built an in-game editor that writes JSON and a runtime loader that rebuilds those layouts on load. The combat and the health-threshold potion system on top of it became my ICEC 2024 paper: 83% of a 38-student sample never noticed the difficulty adapting. Playable in the browser.
Solo Programmer and Designer
Exile switches from timed 3D gathering to 2D night combat, so resources and progress had to survive the handover intact. I built the gathering, building, shop and combat loop, and the persistent state that carries across both phases. Windows and Android builds.
Solo Programmer and Designer
A ricochet can bounce a projectile straight back into the target it just hit, which would make repeated contact with one opponent the cheapest way to deal damage. So the Q remembers its last valid target and rejects consecutive hits on it: you need another target in the route before the first becomes eligible again, which puts firing angle and nearby geometry into the shot. Consecutive-hit rejection and A to B to A routing are both tested in multiplayer PIE.
ICEC 2024 · Springer LNCS 15192 · first author
The game reads health thresholds to decide potion support and leaves enemy count, damage and behaviour alone. A Monte Carlo simulation over 5 levels at 1,000 runs each put modelled failure at 8% with adaptive support, against 40% and 56% for the fixed distributions. Of 38 computer-science students who played it, 83% did not perceive the adaptation.
Read publication (opens in a new tab)Master’s thesis in progress, not yet submitted, expected 2026
I map Riot’s stated balance intentions onto champion-specific metrics across patches 25.20 and 25.21, split by rank, role and match phase. The current analysis covers 3,362 participant observations. Of the 12 champions classified so far, six aligned with the stated intention and five did not.
I peaked at Master 235 LP in League of Legends and played starting Jungler for Varona Esports in the LPLOL Second Division, where I ran draft preparation, VOD review and shotcalling.
More about my game experienceTeam games and game jams, plus earlier software engineering with APIs, data and testing.
Eight people built this Unity 6 jam game about defending an oxygen base from alien waves, gathering fuel, crafting upgrades, and using player abilities.
I programmed this short team-developed puzzle game using visual assets created by teammates.
Click, Call, Chaos is a short satirical simulation about organising a cultural event through emails, calls, taskboards, calendars, and public bureaucracy.
Five-person .NET 8 and Angular 17 health platform with 104 REST endpoints across 10 controllers, 29 xUnit test methods, and a GitHub Actions pipeline deploying to Azure Web App. Stripe payments, SignalR chat and Google OAuth sit on top.
With.in is an earlier Angular implementation with routed content, reusable components, responsive layouts, and prototype form validation.
Universidade Lusófona
Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal · Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal
Available now. Portuguese national with EU work eligibility, open to relocation or remote.
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