Felipe Bezerra

Technical Game Designer

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Portfolio & Skills

Highlights

Passion Projects (keeping the skills sharp)

September 2024 - Current
Overdeveloped: Requiem
A Retro Sci-Fi Samurai sword-fighting Game
Game Design, Art, Code & Sounds
Coming Soon for Windows, Linux & macOS!



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



      Highlights of my Journey in Game Design

November 2024
Animasteroids
Town One Incubator Game Jam 2024
Technical Game Design
Learn more here! The Game is available for Windows




May - August 2024
Unga Run
Audio Collaboration for a VFS Final Project
Soundtrack
Learn more here! The Game is available for Windows




December 2023
John Cricket's Amazing Game
MonoGameJam5 - Theme: John
Game Design, Art, Code & Sounds
Learn more here! The Game is available for Windows




August 2023
MvpHL
Practicing some Skills on Unity
Game Design, Art, Code & Sounds
Learn more here! The Game prototype is playable on the browser




June 2023
Falken
Vancouver Film School Game Jam
Game Design, Art & Code
Learn more here! The Game is playable on browser




March 2023
ANT-ipiece
Vancouver Film School Game Jam
Code & Game Design
Learn more here! The Game is available for PC




February 2023
Songs of Ainur
Global Game Jam 2023
Game Design, Code & Sounds
Learn more here! The Game is available for PC




2017
Spookyard
Exhibited and awarded at SBGames 2017
Sound Effects
Learn more here! Available for PC since 2020




2019
Shape Arena
Exhibited at SBGames 2019
Sound Effects
Learn more here! Available for PC



Other Students Projects (2017 - 2022)
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October 2022
Arrows Betweeen Worlds
Developed for Ludum Dare Jam #51 in partnership with Luis Felipe Patrocinio
Game Design & Sounds
Learn more here! The Game is playable on browser





July 2022
Apple Slayer
Developed for Atariando Workshop in PUC-Rio in partnership with Thomaz Neves
Game Design, Code, Sound & some graphics
Learn more here! The Game ROM is available for Atari & Emulators
More info: http://atariando.inf.puc-rio.br




January 2022
Argo - An Ancient Ferry Ship Vintage Game
Developed for the MonoGame Jam 4 (Theme Upgrade)
Solo Developer
Learn more here! The Game is available for PC & macOS



May - June 2021
Yet Another Cute Game
Developed for the PodQuest Jam 2021
Game Design, SFX, Sountrack & Q&A
Learn more here! The Game is available for PC



January 2021
Pesadelo Náutico (Naval Nightmare)
Developed for the Global Game Jam 2021
Sound Effects & Soundtrack
Learn more here! The Game is available for PC

July 2020
Poles Apart
Developed for the GMTK Game Jam 2020
Sound Effects & Soundtrack
Learn more here! The Game is available for PC



January 2020
Chroma Eagle
Developed for Global Game Jam 2020
Sound Programming, Sound Effects & Soundtrack
Learn more here! The Game is available for PC
The Game Original Soundtrack is available on Bandcamp



Late 2019
Hana
An Interactive Digital Book
Soundtrack
Soundtrack available at Bandcamp
Available for Android



Late 2018
Melting Escape
Code & Soundtrack
Available for Android
More information here



Early 2018
Kasoré
Sound Programming, Sound Effects & Soundtrack
Soundtrack available on Bandcamp
The Prototype available for PC



2017.2
Pizza Girl
Sound Programming, Sound Effects & Soundtrack
On Itch as WebGL
Available for iOS & Android







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
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Tools
Engines & Frameworks
• Unity Engine
• Unreal Engine
• MonoGame Framework
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IDE's
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Eclipse IDE
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Graphic & Audio Design
• Adobe Photoshop
• Apple Logic Pro
• Audacity
• MuseScore
• Reaper
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Awards & Certifications

• Winner of "Town Artisan Award - Best Technical Achievement in Design, Art, Programming and Sound" at Quiver Game Town One Incubator Game Jam 2024 : Animasteroids
• Winner of "Best Board Game" at Vancouver Film School Student Awards: Next! - An Immigrant Saga Board Game
• Nominated for Best Homebrew Port under 4k - 5^th Annual Atari Homebrew Awards: Apple Slayer
• Winner of the Sound Design category on the Arts Festival of SBGames 2020: Rythenia - Original Soundtrack
• 2^nd Place among the Expositors' Games in SBGames 2017 in Curitiba-Paraná-Brazil: Spookyard


• 2D Game Engine with C++ and Lua - 30h Online Course at pikuma.com
• Cambridge Exam - Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
• Deutsche Sprachdiplom (DSD) der Kultusministerkonferenz - C1
• Deutsche Sprachdiplom (DSD) der Kultusministerkonferenz - B1

Bio

From Fortaleza, State of Ceará, Brazil. Since 2022 in Greater Vancouver, Canada. I'm Technical Game Designer, Composer & developer. Recent graduate from British Columbia Institute of Technology, where I studied Business Management. Before that, I studied Game Design by Vancouver Film School. I also hold a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at PUC-Rio, same institution where I embarked on my game development journey back in 2017. 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. Above all, I love everything about Game Development and telling stories through games. That's why one golden rule of my interests, efforts and works is bridging areas, because games are the product of a crossroad of knowledges an skills sharing the same vision.

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Interests

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