Nuno Xu
Senior Unity Engineer
Professional Work
Game Jams
Background
Worked in Moonfrost - a multiplayer life-sim game inspired in Stardew Valley. Responsibilities included:
- Mentored Lead Engineer and other team members, providing guidance and support in technical and non-technical matters.
- Handled conflict management between departments, serving as mediator and agenda facilitator when tough decisions had to be made, such as deciding deadlines and project scope disagreements.
- Co-operated with other departments to establish good communication channels, in the form of workflow guidelines.
- Architecture and implementation of core systems, such as multi-grid environment mapping, editor tooling, crafting and item management.
Worked on client side development for Rebel Racing - an arcade racing game for Android and iOS, originally launched in Nov 2019 with frequent content updates up to present day.
- Did generalist development, working in all client side aspects of the game, ranging from gameplay and UI, to tools, library integration and build pipeline.
- Took ownership of multiple features, coordinating with other departments to make sure work gets shipped.
- Stood as tech stakeholder during design sessions.
Created project agnostic libraries, used in games across the studio, such as web socket integration and player groups (guild/clubs).
Continuous development for the web game WWO (World War Online), using PHP.
Developed apps for Android and iOS in Unity:
- Unnamed puzzle game (In Development) - a board puzzle game
- WWO (Launched 2017 - In continuous development) - an online multiplayer strategy game
- Soccer Avatars (Launched 2017) - a card creator app for the card game Soccer Avatars
Research and development of fluency detection in natural text.
Development of the game Wordtap for linguistic editor evaluation.
Used Python and Flask.
Education
Finished with an average of 17 out of 20.
Earned academic excelence diploma in 1st year.
Finished with an average of 16 out of 20.