andreribsantos

Designed and developed a card game focused on reforestation, using the Godot Engine. Helped plant and tokenize over 300 trees into NFTs. Expanded role to include Substrate development, focusing on NFT technology.

Led the development of a Parachain’s backend, focused on cinema curation markets. Engineered a decentralized, scalable and self-regulating moderation system. Created a staking and rewards mechanism for user voting and content ranking. Developed systems for a social network, one-time festival events and content classification. Conducted testing and benchmarking to ensure feature performance, reliability and efficiency. Successfully configured the blockchain for deployment on the Rococo Testnet.

Enhanced and maintained the native engine’s performance and features using C++. Effectively mentored two junior developers, focusing on fundamental game development skills. Significantly reduced workflow overhead by developing automation tools for Adobe Photoshop. Ported features from the base engine to PixiJS, such as drawing/filling shapes dynamically, customizable particle handling, inverse kinematics and an animation manager. Led the development of an online virtual casino metaverse, using JavaScript and PixiJS. Engineered dynamic, customizable environments with multiple themes and assets, alongside an editor.

Successfully developed six slot-machine games using provided assets and the in-house engine. Created per-game payment systems, ensuring statistical correctness. Designed an RNG algorithm, standardized into the game development workflow. Proposed and implemented a solution enabling the in-house engine to use recursion. Collaborated closely with the QA team to ensure game quality and functionality post-completion.

Developed a 2D tile based strategy game using Unity and C#, utilizing and adjusting third-party assets provided by the client. Created pathfinding, procedural map generation systems and randomized combat encounters. Thoroughly tested the game and maintained open communication with the client. Achieved client satisfaction with the final product, despite the game not being published.

Designed, built and iterated multiple full-featured game system prototypes as a solo developer. Projects demonstrate advanced systems thinking, performance optimization and gameplay architecture. Procedural Map Systems: Modular tile-based generation with weighted terrain, layering and pathfinding. RNG Systems: Dynamic random number generation with modular implementation. Core Architecture: Serialized state saving/loading, state machines and animation control. UI/UX: Fully integrated HUDs, menus and input handling (mouse, keyboard, controller, touchscreen). Multiplayer/Steam Integration: Steam API support, lobby setup and matchmaking and asynchronous gameplay. Cross-Platform Ports: Functional builds for Windows, Linux and Android. Optimization: Threaded background loading systems (process and memory-aware), benchmarking and debugging.