Game Design

Personal Projects

Doctor Cosmic

It is a 3D cartoonish space shooter with a visual novel narrative in which the missions mainly consist of saving aliens fighting a parasite inside their bodies with a miniaturized spaceship.

I designed and developed the demo in Unreal Engine 5 on my own.

This project was a big opportunity to deal a lot with some important aspects of game development:

Ideation and game analysis
Gameplay and enemies design
Objectives and rewards design
UI and UX design
Narrative design
UE programming with Blueprints
3D modeling (with Blender and UE5 Modeling Tool)
Assets research and creationg with AIs

For more details see the dedicated page.

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Academic Team Projects

Nightmare Slayer

It is a 3D action adventure roguelite game very focused on platforming and bullet hell elements developed in about 3 months for an academic team project.

We developed it by working in a team of 6 people (3 designers and 3 programmers) and following a standard production cycle (ideation, proof of concept, beta and release).

I mainly worked as a designer but I also managed some implementations in Unity (including coding in C#) and art elements (3D models, effects, etc.):

Some major contributions were:

Ideation and similar game analysis
Pitch
GDD
Enemies (design, modeling and implementation)
Level Design (design and blockout in engine)
Progression and Economy Design
VFX and sounds (design, research and implementation)

For more details see the dedicated page.

Cosmic Crash

It is a 2D hypercasual game in cartoonish space theme playable on Browser in about 3 months for an academic team project.

We developed it working in a team of 5 people (2 designers and 3 programmers) following a standard production cycle (ideation, prototype, vertical slice and release).

I mainly worked as a designer but I also managed some implementations in Unity and art elements (free assets research, sprites modifications, etc.).

Some of my major contributions were:

Ideation
Pitch
GDD
Enemies
Progression
VFX and sounds (design and implementation)
Assets research and sprites modification

For more details see the dedicated page.

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Game Jams

Pipish Pub - DBGA Game Jam 2023

It is a 2D puzzle game developed in 48 hours for a Game Jam organized by Digital Bros Game Academy.

We developed it working in a team of 5 people (me as designer and 4 programmers).

I mainly worked about:

Game design (mechanics, objectives, rewards, UX, etc.)
Tasks manager (due to the absence of a game producer)
Game art (free assets research, sprites modifications, animations, etc.).

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Noisemaker Audition - Global Game Jam 2024

It is a comic game playable with microphone that was developed in 48 hours for the Global Game Jam 2024.

We developed it in a team of 6 people (randomly met at the event of Turin organized by IGDA Italy).

Major activities I performed:

Game design (mechanics, objectives, rewards, briefing writings, UX, etc.)
Research and adaptation of the assets (3D models, animations, etc.)
Worked in Unity to create levels and scenes

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Prototypes and other works in game engines

Crystal Ball Escape - Prototype

I pitched and developed in Unity the prototype of a platformer game with physics-based puzzles in which the player plays as a rolling crystal ball.

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Save the Ocean - Prototype

I pitched and developed in Unity the prototype of an endless runner game aimed for children in which the player plays as a submarine that has to collect trash avoiding to hurt animals.

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Amnesia & Delirium - Amatorial Personal Project

It is a 2D top-down action adventure game with souls-like elements that I developed in RPG Maker XP during my free time.

Major activities needed for its developement were:

Game design (mechanics, objectives, rewards, UX, etc.)
Adaptation on some scripts
Coding using the RPG Maker Events system
Game art (free assets research, sprites modifications, animations, etc.).