Leonardo Giovanni Scur

Game Software Engineer at Afterverse

Programming for PK XD, a 3D mobile social game with millions of downloads on a large team, mostly Unity and C# gameplay programming and software architecture, some Kotlin backend/networking.

Development of user-facing and internal features for PK XD (Android, iOS, Desktop), a 3D multiplayer social game for kids (think Club Penguin styled after The Jetsons) with >100 million downloads. Some of my work on it:

• Marking backpack items as favorites for easier access to preferred items;
• Health, score and respawn logic for shooter-based UGC games, from networking, to gameplay, and UI;
• Significant performance and architectural improvements to the usage of Addressables for loading of player-created houses and games;

I worked mainly with C# on the Unity game client, but would sometimes dip into the server-side Protobuf and Kotlin code when needed. Also worked on the software architecture, fundamental features and tooling for unannounced projects.

Built an ECS-inspired architecture to standardize the local access as well as network synchronization of interactive game objects for an unnanounced project, allowing for faster development of networked gameplay features. Using said architecture, implemented an object picking menu for touchscreen interactions between player and world in third-person.

Game Development Analyst at DOT Digital Group

Educational and corporate game development on a small team using Unity. VR, AR, mobile and web games and simulations, participating in the entire project timeline, from concept to deployment.

Design, planning, and development of educational games, corporate training games, and simulators in Unity.

Worked on a variety of projects that used various unconventional technologies such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, as well as targeting mobile and web platforms.

• A VR harvesting combine simulator, with an accurate replica of a real machine's control panel and harvesting process. The goal was to offer a practice environment for new operators;
• Web-based games for embedding into e-learning platforms. Both low-spec 3D as well as 2D games;
• Various quiz style games for mobile and web, such as Programa Agrinho, a fully-offline mix of quizzes and activities for rural school children;

Architected and developed an in-house tool for authoring and publishing visual novel/interactive fiction games, using a node-based workflow with a graphical editor written in Unity. This allowed non-technical writers to build the entire plot of a game in a single tool, while the technical team implemented any specific gameplay modules required by each individual project.

Web Developer at Lagoasoft

Frontend web development, both maintenance and greenfield, Knockout, Angular, React.

Front-end web development and maintenance of Knockout, Angular, and React web applications. Implemented designs created by internal and external teams as well as implemented connections to REST web APIs.

Later, leading development in React web applications as well as a React Native mobile application.

Web Developer Internship at Chaordic

Front-end Angular development, CSS, some Python backend work.

Some reasonably diverse experiences: mostly front-end AngularJS development, implementing layouts and functionality for dashboards and adminstration panels.

Secondarily, I also helped maintain back-end data transformation and transfer scripts in Python, interacting with AWS features. As well as some maintenance and monitoring in Docker-based infrastructure.