Technical game design

Technical Game Designer

Gameplay systems, tools, balance, progression, prototyping, and playtesting.

I design systems, prototype them in Unity and C#, build iteration tools, and connect playtesting and gameplay data to design decisions.

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Tools & iterationDungeon Wipe connects level-authoring tools, encounter systems, and a health-responsive potion system studied in published DDA research.

Team projectsFive public team projects span narrative design, programming, cultural game jams, puzzles and critical design.

ResearchMaster’s work examines League of Legends patch changes, gameplay data, balance, and player behaviour.

Flagship case study

Dungeon Wipe: tools, systems, and adaptive support

A systems case study connecting an editor workflow, combat roles, encounter pacing, scoring, and the health-responsive potion system used in published DDA research.

Dungeon Wipe

Solo Project · BSc final project · research prototypeReleased Windows build · source available

A released Unity dungeon-survival game with a custom JSON level editor, runtime level reconstruction, combat systems, NavMesh enemies, scoring, and a health-responsive potion system used in published DDA research.

Role: Solo Programmer and Designer
Built: A systems case study connecting an editor workflow, combat roles, encounter pacing, scoring, and the health-responsive potion system used in published DDA research.

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Selected projects

Exile: progression, pacing, and player decisions

Preparation choices in Exile shape village growth, upgrades, and the pressure of the following combat phase.

Exile

Solo Project · university projectReleased Windows build · source available

A released hybrid game that connects timed 3D resource gathering and village development with 2D top-down combat and persistent progression.

Role: Solo Programmer and Designer
Built: Interconnected progression design: preparation, resources, buildings, upgrades, combat escalation, persistence, and day/night pacing.

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Team experience

Collaborative Projects

Narrative design, programming, cultural-game-jam, puzzle, and critical-game roles delivered through multidisciplinary teams.

The Choice

Three-person team projectReleased Windows build

A released time-loop interactive-fiction mystery built around observation, dialogue, emotional control, and clue-driven discovery.

Role: Narrative Designer
Built: Narrative Designer on a three-person released interactive-fiction project.

View The Choice case study Play on itch.io

O2D top-down action gameplay on an alien planet

O2D

Eight-Person Team · GN! Game Jam #15Completed game-jam project · playable Windows builds

An eight-person Unity 6 jam project about defending an oxygen base from alien waves while gathering fuel, crafting upgrades, and using player abilities.

Role: Programmer
Built: Programmer in an eight-person game-jam team that delivered a completed, playable survival prototype.

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A Conquista

EPIC-WE Cultural Game Jam #04 · six-person teamReleased downloadable build

A released visual-novel adventure about infiltrating medieval Óbidos and opening the town gates, created by a six-person cultural game-jam team.

Role: Programmer · Credited as “Crafter”
Built: Programmer, publicly credited as “Crafter”, who implemented movement, dialogue, level boundaries, and event sequencing for the jam build.

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Keep The Light On

Team Project · Sole ProgrammerReleased Windows build

A short team-developed puzzle game for which I implemented all game code using visual assets created by teammates.

Role: Sole Programmer
Built: Sole Programmer on a compact team puzzle release, implementing all game code with teammate-created art.

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Click, Call, Chaos

Team Project · Sole Programmer · three-person teamPlayable Windows prototype

A short satirical narrative simulation about organising a cultural event through emails, calls, taskboards, calendars, and public bureaucracy.

Role: Sole Programmer
Built: Sole Programmer on a three-person critical game, implementing all game code with visual assets and a script created by other team members.

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Supporting projects

Mechanics analysis through a focused level study

The Prince of Persia level replica translates movement, timing, gates, hazards, and encounter pacing from a 2D reference into Unity.

Prince of Persia (1989) educational level replica showing the side-view 3D dungeon layout

Prince of Persia Level Replica

Solo Project · Educational ReplicaReleased Windows build · source available

A 3D recreation of the original first level focused on studying movement, pacing, gates, buttons, falling floors, and enemy encounters.

Role: Solo Programmer and Designer
Built: A mechanics-analysis exercise translating the movement, pacing, gates, buttons, and hazards of a 2D reference into 3D.

View Prince of Persia Level Replica case study Play on itch.io View source on GitHub

Research

Dynamic difficulty and data-informed balance

The ICEC 2024 publication is complete. The Master’s thesis on gameplay data and patch changes remains in progress.

Co-author · ICEC 2024 · Springer LNCS 15192 · pp. 323–330

Dungeon Wipe: Exploring Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment with Power-Up Mechanics

Research using Dungeon Wipe to examine power-up distribution as an indirect Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment approach.

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Master’s thesis in progress · expected 2026

League of Legends patch-impact analysis

Ongoing analysis of gameplay data, patch changes, balance, player behaviour, and statistical methods for data-informed design decisions.

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