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• Date: January 2017
• Client: Threads
• Category: Illustration

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Devil Worship hotel

Last project of my 1st year in Game Design Bachelor at Bellecour Ecole

We were 3 Game Designer students, making a short game level based on the work of a programmer who did a chasing AI with a stealth system.

You play a paranormal reporter that will be trapped inside a cursed hotel and hunted by a demonic cultist. Through puzzle, hiding and escaping the monster, the player must find a way out.

My Contribution

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• Level Design of the prototype (Draws & Implementation)
• Unreal Engine asset integration, blockout and environment
• Updating the programmer's asset's from (Unreal) 5.0.3 to 5.1
• UI programming
• Modular 3D assets (Walls, Ground, Ceiling, Corners) with seamless textures
• Keeping contact with the programmer for bug reports & needs
• Writing of Level Design Document

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As being 3 Game designer working on that prototype and a major rework that forced us to restart everything at the half of the project's length, I decided to do a modular workflow to finish in time the prototype as the first idea was to rebuild an existing building in one piece.

I did the modular models inside Blender and made textures inside substance painter, there is no trim sheets but using them would have been better.
The UV has been made to have seamless texture transition between all the connected models.

Project Details

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• Duration: April -June 2023
• Group: School Project - 4 Students
• Engine: Unreal Engine 5.1
• Platform: PC

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Maze Mart

First game project made to learn how to develop a game from scratch during a year break working partially in elementary & kindergarten schools

I’ve made this project to learn how to make a game by myself from the idea inside my mind to something published and played by a few players around the world.

Game Published on Steam

Maze Mart is a sort of walking simulator with different endings based on the player's gameplay choices: He is supposed to buy a milk, but by not following the instructions he may discover new actions, levels and challenges.

My Contribution

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• Few 3D models for the environment
• All the levels have been prototyped and tested
• AI behaviour trees (Single player & Multiplayer)
• A multiplayer "race" mode
• Multiples endings in the single player (6)
• Achievement System (Native & Steam)
• Steam page

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This game was meant to be bad and I'm personally glad it went that way!
I wanted to start to learn doing game development by doing a lot of mistakes and understand why they were mistakes, as soon as possible.

I did the full process of a game development, from the idea to the public release ready to face the positives & negatives reviews.
To speed up the process I've used a few assets (3D models, sounds) that I've modified to adapt it to the game's lore.

I've also used a Steam API marketplace plugins to implement all the function of the Steam SDK as not being a fully programmer, I preferred to have something clean and secure than doing it myself quick and dirty.

Project Details

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• Duration: 1 Year, 2021 - 2022
• Group: Self-Employed project
• Engine: Unreal Engine 4.27
• Platform: PC
• Other: First game project ever

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Web/Mobile Games

I'm currently learning how to make entertaining mobile games & web games.
I do have a strong preference for PC games but it's an interesting way of making games.

My Contribution

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• Optimization on asset to fit web & mobile requirements (Meshes triangles, Texture size, Shader complexity, Lights)
• Adding project on App Store (GooglePlay)
• Adding Web playable version of games on Itch.io
• Set Up of Android SDK, NDK for Unreal Engine 5+

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Most of my web games are from game jam I do online by my own, to test game concept or challenge myself.
I'm currently working on the release of a new mobile game (Release around March 2025) that is a runner in an uncommon way where I also integrated AdMob & Google Play SDK through Marketplace Plugins.

I like to add leaderboards in my game to involve the player in the way they can fight against each others asynchronously.

I've removed my first mobile project from Google Play as it was mainly a training project to discover the mobile development process. The game was a golf game with Ice cubes to shoot inside cocktails.

Project Details

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• Duration: From 48h to Months
• Group: Self-Employed
• Engine: Unreal Engine 5+ (Mobile) Unreal 4.23 (Web)
• Platform: Mobile & Web
• Other: I used to pick Unity for web games but I preferred Unreal as I wanted to increase my skills on this Engine.

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My Workflow

How I start and end a game prototype

The Idea

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If I don't have a pre-made idea noted from my task notes list or my "idea book", I usually randomly roam on the internet watching videos, images, locations in google map, to get inspiration.

Once I find an idea that entertain me enough, I start a huge references research and dig the most possible information around the subject of the project before starting anything related to game design.

Game Design

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Now that the Idea is clear, I note all the possible action's verbs possible in the game project and imagine how it would look.
I iterate once I have a gameplay sequence that could be interesting to test and try to find games that has done the same.

Then I start the root of my Game Design Document.
From the base Skelton with all the desired parts inside a summary to the game's One Pager fully completed.

Prototyping

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When the root of the GDD is done, I start to do fast prototype if the idea is small. (In the case of a big project, I only prototype the core mechanics in priority)

I've trained myself to do fast prototype with Unreal Engine, and built my own template project for HTML and Android to save time (as their requirements are heavy).

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When I'm done with a prototype I start test phase to gather feedbacks on my game, by making short trailers for the big projects and by sharing web version for the tiny ones.
(For projects I'm planning to publish on Steam I usually have a list of playtesters and do private tests through the platform)

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Modular Building

2nd year modelling project during my Game Design Bachelor

For a project during my second year of Game Design Bachelor, in group of 4 we had to make modular assets for an undefined video game.

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After setting up the universe and made a soft world building, we went for a game that take place in a modern city.
I've took a week doing historical research through the city's library, building up data on Miro and a short Document.
This was made to understand the structure of the city and also because one of the game's aspect is to be able to go back 2000 thousands years in the past.

Building Blocks

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I've built the blocks for a building with a few variations using blender, based on the city's building references, which are Haussmannian buildings.
Using the software grid, I've built the meshes to have almost a pixel perfect snapping.

Knowing we were using Unreal Engine 5+ dynamic lighting, I've optimized the UV for a trimsheet workflow and overlapped the UV islands that uses the same material to render the maximum quality possible on the screen (As we don't bake the light this was possible).

The trimsheet have been made using Substance Painter. On this version we only changed the walls colour.

The blocks are made with instances of meshes inside Blender, which allowed me to update everything through one of the primaries meshes.

Project Render

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Beer Glass

Self-employed project, released on Unreal Marketplace

I wanted to start being active on the Unreal Marketplace as I plan to release future game project on the Epic Store, so I've been doing a big set of beer glasses as this kind of asset were missing in the store.

Marketplace Page

My Contribution

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• Modelling the glasses & their liquid/foam volumes
• Making glass shader compatible in runtime with Lumen & Path Tracing
• Demonstration scene

Project Details

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• Duration: July 2023
• Group: Self-employed - Solo
• Engine: Unreal Engine 5.1+
• Platform: PC

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Kaminoken

1st year modelling weapon project during my Game Design Bachelor
With semi-detailed breakdown of my workflow

This was inspired by the sword of the character Uzui from the anime Demon Slayer. I wanted to model it un a realistic way.

References

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I used miro to store all my references, usually using PureRef to do that locally on my computer, I did it on Miro to learn this new tool.

Blockout

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I then did the blockout on Blender using a character I've made few months ago for a little game, with Character Creator & Blender. The pose of the character was for a two-handed weapon, but it still done the job.

Low Poly & High

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After making a clean topology I did the high poly sculpt on Blender.
The low poly model has 7.262 triangles.

I'm personally not satisfied with the sharpness of the blade, it look like blunt.
For the handle I tried to replicate the weaving of katana's handle tissue.

UV

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I then tried to optimize the UV of the model by making the blade part taking most of the space with the handle (for the weaving details) and the guard (for the engraved ones).

Rendering

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I did the render in Unreal Engine 5 with a set up of light to highlight the model.

Final Step

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I then added a new layer of post-processing through photoshop.

Project Details

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• Duration: April 2023
• Group: School Project - Solo
• Engine: Unreal Engine 5.2

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My Workflow

My modelling workflow

References

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I always start gathering a lot of references of what I want modelling first.

Modelling Iterations

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Once all my references are collected, I do a blockout of the shapes of the model and then start the low poly construction.
I few case I directly skip the low poly construction when I do sculpt and create the low poly by doing retopology.

For model I'm not used to do, I generally iterate a lot this process until I get the technique and get a decent model.

UV Unwrapping

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When doing a low poly construction I usually unwrap during the modelling process.
Once the model is done and all the UV ready, I start to organize them in order to have the highest quality (surfaces took by the UV on the texture sheet) on the part of the models that are the most visible/big.

In case of prototyping fast I usually skip the organization part and uses an algorithm from a addon that automatically do the job for me based on the relative size of the UVs.

I'm also using the same addon at the end of my UV process to use most of the space for the remaining UV islands.

Rendering

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I've been training myself to do the render with Unreal Engine 5+, but I also do my render with Blender.

For all the video rendering, I do them inside Unreal.

Characters

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There is exception in my workflow when I'm doing modular assets, and also characters.

As not being good at making character base models, I use Character Creator 4 to generate models shapes with high quality shaders for the skin, then doing the hairs, cloth and accessory in blender.

The by using Character Creator's shader tools, I add layer of detail on the skin by using Substance Painter through UDIM textures.

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Lighting

My experience into the world of Rendering and principally Lighting

Learning Lighting

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Click on the picture to see the High Quality version.

For the past few weeks I've been watching and reading courses on lighting with Unreal Engine, drawing upon my background in optics from university.
I also started to learn the basics of photography to enhance my ability to capture high-quality images while working with physical values within Unreal Engine.

I made this render with Unreal Engine 5.3, using ACES & OCIO colour into EXR pictures in 4k.
Then I Imported the EXR sequence into After Effect to render a mp4 file, and Rec709 Colour Output.

I wanted to learn how to render high quality screenshot and videos without losing details in the light and reflections.

I'm planning to start to use the custom branch of Nvidia for Unreal Engine to try the RTXDI and NvRTX.

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Visual Scripting

Showcase of my Unreal Engine visual scripting abilities in various projects: from dynamic gameplay, shaders to user interfaces.

I've tester Unity visual scripting during my 2nd year of Bachelor Game Design but I definitely prefers Unreal's blueprint (The index of node is way better and the "Context Sensitive" option is a huge time saver).

I'm enough experienced with Blueprints to know that my script won't be perfect, but I can manage to do almost everything and can understand any tutorial or documentations.

Gameplay Demo Reel

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I decided to make a short video to showcase my different works with visual scripting in Unreal, as it could take too long to show every nodes.

Spline Wire

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In a level design project, to make the environment guide the player I wrote a construction script with spline to create wire and place them on the correct location, before converting them into a static mesh.

Bluenprint Link

Basic Glass Shader with Path Tracer Switch

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For a self-employed project about making beer glasses, I've wrote a glass shader that automatically update if it's rendered with Path Tracer.

Bluenprint Link

HLSL code

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I've re-wrote for unreal engine an HLSL code made by XOR about scaling a texture in fractals: the blog post.

I've also updated a soft-outline HLSL code made by Tom Looman, as it's not working anymore in current Unreal Engine versions.
After looking on internet and trying multiple solutions I've end up on that code.

Bluenprint Link

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