Projects

Predator

2024

Personal Project - Unreal / C++

Pitch

Project (codename) Predator is a singleplayer infiltration game made with Unreal Engine and C++ as a personal project.
I started the project in January 2024 and I am working alone on it at the moment.

In Predator you play as a deadly stealthy robot prototype that escaped its confinement and you have to kill in order to survive. Your core battery is slowly depleting and the only way to stay active is to consume biomass, in simpler terms, hunt and eat your victims to regain energy.
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The core ambition of the project is to create an infiltration game based exclusively on stealth, where staying invisible and confusing the enemies is key, as well as have a reverse horror gameplay, since you play the monster and will terrorize your prey.

I made this project in order to learn the Unreal Engine, which I had never used before, first starting with Blueprint but quickly switching to C++ during development. Since I already had good knowledge of this language prior to using Unreal, it felt more natural, and was more scalable for the project.
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Also, I wanted to experiment with Unreal Behaviour Trees and get comfortable with this system, and try to develop an immersive and responsive AI for the game.

The game is still at a very early stage, but I have a first playable demo available right below :

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A Boy and his Bug

2021 - 2022

Team Project - Unity / C#

Overview

A Boy and his Bug is a Puzzle-Adventure Videogame, that sets the player in a mysterious and gigantic Minimoy world. The player will follow the quest of Mikro, a child of the little folk, and his companion Skrab, his loyal steed, as they embark on a journey to find Mikro’s lost brother...

I was the Lead Game Programmer for the project, working mainly on the controller and puzzle elements, as well as project architecture, performances, and helping the team with source control.

This project was a year-long production, with a team of 10, using Unity, and we were engaged full-time on it.
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I developed an Interactibles System for the game to allow the designers to quickly create and customize objects for puzzles. The idea was to be able to assemble simple features in order to define the behaviour of these objects, and quickly iterate on those.
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I also had the opportunity to work with Obi Rope, a plugin for creating realistic ropes, and adapted it to our needs in order to develop the grappling hook feature of our game.

During production, we had to face several scope reductions because we did not have the sufficient resources in the Art team to complete certain parts of the game. As such our final demo was shorter than what we would have hoped for, but these decisions, made sufficiently early in production allowed us to achieve a strong level of polish and deliver a demo with little to no bugs (pun intended).

DOWNLOAD ON ITCH.IO !

Secret Proto-Coop

2021

Team Project - Unity / C#

Overview

Secret Proto-Coop is a VR Multiplayer Infiltration Game, which sets the players as secret agents, in cooperation, one infiltrating a secret compound, in VR, and the other, the support agent, helping him remotely with a mobile device.

The goal was to create an experience where players would need to communicate constantly in order to share intel and use their separate skills to solve different situations. It was an attempt at recreating the duo of Field/Support Agents, such as in Mission : Impossible with Ethan and Benji.

I worked as a Gameplay and AI Programmer on the project, within a team of 11 people including 3 programmers. The game was made in Unity, over the course of 4 months.
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I was primarily responsible for the development of AI Enemy NPCs Behaviour and Pathfinding, creating a Custom State Machine System as well as a Path Creation Tool for the Agents.
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I also developed a Level Streaming System, in order to automatically assemble several level chunks (or rooms) together, pooling them and then being able to load/unload them easily as the player progresses through the level.
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I also had the opportunity to work with Steam VR as well as Photon Networking within the programming team, which presented some amount of architectural challenges we had to tackle.

Overall, the production was a bit tedious, with the absence of a dedicated producer for the project, but we were able to pull off a successful demo nonetheless, which showcased the potential of this unique asymmetric cooperative experience.

Gameplay

Blackwater Crimes

2020

Team Project - Unity / C#

Overview

Blackwater Crimes is a Detective Mobile Game that sets the player in the dark city of Chicago, from the 1920s prohibition era, as a police detective in charge of solving a strange murder. The player will be taken along an investigation where he will have to actively search for clues and informations, using deductions in order to advance and eventually answer the question, who did it ?

I worked as Lead Game Programmer on the project, and was responsible for developing, debugging as well as maintaining the majority of the features. The project was made in Unity, with a team of 8 people.
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As such I was in charge of the Code’s Architecture and decided to implement a Data System for managing the clues and informations of the game, using Scriptable Objects. This system allowed us down the road to implement a saving system using Player Prefs as well as full Localization in French and English, using integration of spreadsheets inside the engine.
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Refactoring and Organization was also a big part of the project, which allowed the team to work effectively, integrate content from designers as well as rework features on the go without taking too much time.

Post Mortem

This project was made almost entirely during lockdown, in remote, and turned out to be one of the best project I ever worked on. The team was highly motivated, the production went quite smoothly, all things considered, and it is for me a true example of how project architecture, organization, and communication can hold a team together. The roles within the team were well attributed, making it clear, who worked on what, and allowing for a strong production pipeline. As we were following sprints, with regular meetings, and the goal of one game build every week.

In the end, the game was produced entirely, with 9 chapters (scenes), the full investigation story, lots of content, from clues to police reports, as well as voice acting and a tutorial.
As an improvement note however, the game suffered from performance issues at the end, something that I had not anticipated fully at the time. As well as a lack of polish, as production had to stop by the end of the school year.

Ctrl. Alt. Bunker

2019

Short Project - Unity / C#

Ctrl. Alt. Bunker was a video game project developed by 3 crazy programmers, during the course of 2 months, in which you have to defend your base from incoming missiles, using... bikes. Yep, you read that right. The whole game installation is made out of bike parts, making for a most unexpected controller experience for the players. The goal was to create an alternative controller/installation for a game, and so did we decide to go all in, and experiment with a very weird challenge.

The game was made in Unity, and I worked mainly on creating the Arduino and C# scripts that would allow the communication between the controller, and our game. I also did the Graphic Design for the game and did some woodwork so that the controller would hold together.

In the end, this project was a completely unexpected experience, and a good example of "let's try and we'll see". Even I, don’t understand how we were able to make this work when I just look at this thing. Yet the game was definitely playable and actually quite fun. So, great success.