Felipe Bezerra

Technical Game Designer



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Portfolio & Skills

Highlights
    Final Project at VFS

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    May 2023 - October 2023

    Overdeveloped

    Final Project for the Game Design Program at Vancouver Film School

    Programming, Audio UX / UI & Game Design
    Learn more here! This Game is available for PC


    Character Skills Programming


    Main Event Graph for player's character


    Summary

    During my team's Final Project at VFS, I programmed and helped in balancing the character main skills, their animation state machine as well as their interaction with weather challenges and triggers in the level.


    Main features:
    • Fast prototyping and quick iteration
    • Improved the overall quality of scripting as soon as its features solidified
    • Variables controlling character core features and metrics are exposed: easy and accessible balancing


    Gameplay Systems Programming


    Visual scripting for the Rain, one of our featured challenges


    Summary

    During my team's Final Project at VFS, I programmed the core gameplay systems like the checkpoints, sublevel loading/unloading, pickup items spawning / respawing and most of logic for the weather hazards featured in our game.


    Main features:
    • Use of Unreal Engine's Game Instances, Game Mode, Actor Blueprints & Actor Blueprint Components
    • Visual Scripting as common language for tech artists and level designers
    • High usage of Object-Oriented Programming standards on those systems


    UX / UI Design & Programming


    Sketching on paper some of the UI transitions


    Main Menu in preliminary development stage

    Transition to and from Pause Menu


    Summary

    I was also in charge of providing all the hard tech required to implement the transition and flow among the UI states. Everything about the interface, except the iconography and logo. I took on the challenge of revamping our UX design and program it to provide a unique feel for the game's overall experience.

    Main features:
    • UI built from scratch with UMG Widgets
    • Transitions invoking a smooth and cohesive behaviour
    • Look and feel in accordance to our game's aesthetics


      Student Projects Highlights
Other Students Projects (2017 - 2022)
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Skills & Fields of Work (in order of frequency)
  • Game Development in Unity, Unreal & MonoGame
  • Game Soundtrack Composing, Sound Design
  • Web Development (more front-end)
  • Database Programming


Programming Languages
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • Java
  • SQL
  • Python
  • PHP
  • C#
  • C
  • C++
  • Lua
Tools
Engines & Frameworks
  • Unity Engine
  • Unreal Engine
  • MonoGame Framework
    • IDE's
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
    • Eclipse IDE
    • Graphic & Audio Design
    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Apple Logic Pro
    • Audacity
    • MuseScore

    • Awards & Certifications

    • Winner of "Best Board Game" at Vancouver Film School Student Awards: Next! - An Immigrant Saga Board Game
    • Nominated for Best Homebrew Port under 4k - 5th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards: Apple Slayer
    • Winner of the Sound Design category on the Arts Festival of SBGames 2020: Rythenia - Original Soundtrack
    • 2nd Place among the Expositors' Games in SBGames 2017 in Curitiba-Paraná-Brazil: Spookyard

    • Cambridge Exam - Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
    • Deutsche Sprachdiplom (DSD) der Kultusministerkonferenz - C1
    • Deutsche Sprachdiplom (DSD) der Kultusministerkonferenz - B1

    Relevant Experience

    Vancouver Film School

    Student at the Game Design Program - Final Project

    Main programmer, Soundtrack composer & Game Designer

    Student at the Game Design Program - Team Project

    Main programmer, Soundtrack composer, Level Designer & Game Designer

    October 2022 - October 2023

    Internship at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

    ICAD/VisionLab, laboratory of the Department of Informatics

    Worked as an assistant on new technologies and pipelines experiments for game development.

    April 2017 - February 2021

    Rio2016 & AqueceRio Volunteer

    Rio2016 Volunteer Programme

    Worked as IT Volunteer for the Taekwondo competitions in Arena Carioca, at the core of the Barra Olympic Park

    July 2016 - August 2016

    2014 FIFA World Cup Volunteer

    FIFA World Cup Volunteer Programme

    Worked as local guide volunteer for the german team in FIFA Football Fest for Hope, a competition among the football delegations of non-governmental organisations' programmes that use Football as a tool for social change in different parts of the world.

    July 2014

    Bio

    From Fortaleza, State of Ceará, Brazil. Since October, 2022 in Metro Vancouver, Canada. Currently at the Game Design Advanced Program at Vancouver Film School. Bachelors of Computer Science at PUC-Rio. Composer, Sound Designer & electronic games Developer. I have written some short tales, poetry & some fantasy novels attempts. I enjoy drawing characters and places as well as spends some time to become a skilled Piano player. I love everything about Game Development. That's why one golden rule of my interests, efforts and works is bridging areas, for games are, above all, a crossroad of knowledges.

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    Interests

    • Games
    • Computer Science
    • Music
    • Drawing
    • Photography
    • Storytelling