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My resume in a Google doc version. There you can find more detailed information about my professional experience.
Also add me on different platforms: https://sites.google.com/view/cholushkinmaximcard/home
I participated in Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access release as a senior gameplay developer. I worked in a gameplay team using custom game engine of Larian Studios. I implemented several small features including:
Short rest system (front-end and back-end part)
Features for game editor
Additional parameters for spells and weapons
Some GUI integrations
Some gamepad support for existing actions
Dream walker
Dream walker
A runner puzzle game with more than 1 million downloads without promotional marketing. It reached the Top 10 most downloaded games in China. It started with a rating of 4.8 for a long time before we put ads on it.
Dream Walker is a challenging and surreal puzzle runner game where you can explore a fantastic world of subconscious dreams and nightmares with full of unbelievable physics, architectures and mind games.
It has effects similar to Escher and Monument Valley with a perspective that has logically impossible intersections.
Planetary rover low poly model using blender.
Stairs prototype. You can tilt the section of the stairs to slightly control the ball.
RaceRunner prototype with procedural track generator.
CloudJumper prototype. The white ball is a planet and the character jumps around the orbital trajectory.
Gimbal lock problem in my prototype CloudJumper. The main idea of this prototype is switching the controller mechanic depending on the object where the character interacts. It applies different physics and rules to the game.
The idea itself has no value. The real value is the implementation and the team that able to implement this idea.
Implementation of different types of curves for my GameLib. It also demonstrates the waypoint system with a curve path between 2 way points. The waypoint system supports wide variety of options.
It has PolyLine, Hermite and Bezier curves and also some Math functions to work with all the curve types in GameLib.
WarMach is the second game created by Ordinary People after the game Age of Fury. Unlike Clash of Clans, this game has some unique features such as perks for units, two races to choose from and so on.
I experimented with a lot of block puzzle kind of board games and created 3 prototypes with unique and interesting mechanics. I wrote a game design document and brainstorming document as results of my investigation and prototyping.
There is no such recipe to invent a good and addictive game other than a lot of prototyping, investigating new ideas and analyzing.
In this variant of mechanics, you can rotate the field.
Age of Fury. It's a pure clone of Clash Of Clans and the first 3D game in this genre at the moment. Unfortunately, it didn't make us billionaires for some specific reasons. :)
Character sketch ~5 min
Figuring out which character should I use for the prototype TimeStopJumper.
I also practice to draw and create digital arts because I find it important for game design. To see more drawings, here's my Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/maxim.cholushkin/ )
After sketching, I created a low poly model. Also, it supports a color scheme so the colors could be changed by shifting the UV coordinates from shader.
Integrated in Unity
A low poly character for CloudJumper prototype
There is no Unity physics used in the game.
This game is based on Dream Walker's engine and was intended to be used for promoting an eCommerce company.
The game inherits the moving on the walls feature from Dreamwalker and also it has teleportation, jumping and flying features. It has several boosters that can be collected, including fighting drone, magnet and jet-pack.
I have a lot of design documents, ideas and prototypes. It helps me to grow in game design and it's a way to create a masterpiece game in the future :)
We have different kind of sessions and some of them were for R&D game ideas weekly meetings . That's me on the picture :)
Survival mode prototyping. You need to catch the yellow ball that will going to destroy some tiles of the level or sometimes whole pattern. The character can jump only while it's has the background behind itself (energy support connection). The new ball spawns every X amount of seconds.
An idea that I got rid off after is the preview of the trajectory with Physics enabled.
It has randomized decorations that could be added inside the triangle's placeholders that is located inside the so called patterns (green triangle).
TimeStopJumper prototype. It has procedural generated levels with triangular chunks that could be flipped/mirrored, rotated (up to 6 rotations) and have variations of content inside.
WORLDS Builder or Doodle God 2 (internal name). It was started by only 2 person, me and our game designer. In half a year, I've prepared a demo with core features such as crafting, interacting of elements on hexagon based map and creature interactions including humans. Also, I've prepared a cross-platform builds for Android, PC and Xbox using a self-made C++ engine.
My current project is a fantastic tower generator. I also have a plan to write an article about it
From the mushroom tower prototype. You tap the mushroom then it jumps perpendicularly or shoot the spores and get to the next island. The purpose of this is to propagate the mushrooms all over the level.
This is my blender node rendering for the logo. Also there are Splash screen implementation, hovering face of the sun and animated blinking eyes in a 4 hrs of work including Unity integration.
A binary separation and partitioning tree visualization. It is for my level generator in one of the prototypes.
Prototype for a one tap game where the game field projects all geometries to one surface. An extension of a Skyward game idea. Actually, Dream Walker comes from this idea.
Climber prototype and another experiment with jumping mechanic.
Debris falling experimentation
Debris inside the game
Funny bug with the debris
Experimenting the restore level effect
Freedom of rotation
Whole level moving. A level design experimentation.
If you didn't disable this feature, even the narrow surface is available to be attached:)
Chain reaction prototype. When you tap one of these crosses, it explodes and it fractures the flies in 4 directions and collides with other objects.
Prototyping modular GUI modal popup window in vector. I created script for exporting hierarchy from Adobe Illustrator as text descriptor and cropped images by layers. On Unity side I created importer that cooks prefab from text descriptor and cropped images. Also considering SVG exporting directly
Experimenting with powder kind physics.
Waypoint prototype. Very addictive mechanic for touch screen devices.
I made this for some test task for a company. Usually i don't do such banal prototypes. It has waves of mobs, 3 switchable weapons and complete game session. Actually I like to do test tasks if it's "create a game" task. Perfectly if you have some freedom to try something unique in the game.
Android build of story based prototype of rhythm game. There is story about ninja that wants to be a DJ but forced to fight with drunk visitors of a party. There is also a post effect waves that coming out from the central DJ-guy. You need to do 3 types of attack with different gestures. You have 3 types of enemies that attacks you in a rhythm of music.
Reggie and soft dub step remix of Adele. My practicing with music making. Some other examples are also there on SoundCloud.com
Just vector planet ready for applying color scheme
AR experience application demo where user should tickle a monster. Monster loughs and gives some gift to player. There were bunch of them and even social platform for advertisers with AR experiences.
Testing animation for Bacto game prototype. Exporting script from Adobe Illustrator to text descriptor. And importer in Unity. Also this kind of prefab supports color schemes.
Blob test unity shader
Logo of Bacto game
SpinRoad prototype
Bacto game prototype, 2010. It's a puzzle game with a lot of different kind of bacteria cells (called bactos) that can interact with each other and Eater. Eater of matching color can eat bactos only one time then it get fat and blocked. The purpose is to clear th level from bactos by Eater. Written on C++ self made cross-platform engine
Screen shots of 2 levels of Bacto game prototype.
From "The Cat Tower of Time" game prototype. You are cube cat that have to save all prisoner cats in the tower, you can jump with drag and release controller type. At the end of the level GodCat on the cloud destroys all the level =).
Some measurements
At this period I investigate a lot of algorithms such as marching squares, marching cubes, cellular automata, wave function collapse (WFC). I did few experiments and optimizations. For example i apply caching for WFC that gives significant performance boost.
Find the number, the cats and the letter prototype.
Sometimes you just need to do a lot of routine GUI layout work.
Objective loop subsystem test. Concise and effective implementation based on litjson advanced serialization (with type hinting), reflection and configuration via csv files (exported from google spread sheet)
I have GameLibSandbox unity project separately to GameLib. GameLib is linked there as a submodule. There are 2 main parts inside. Sandbox for experimenting and demonstration of different features and use cases. And UnitTest is for cover most critical classes with self-made simple unit test system based on asserts and error handling.
Generator for continuous paths. Could be used as alien number LED as well :)
Verlet integration physics experiment for level generation. The ball represents the section of the game that is connected to other sections and doesn't intersects others
Same as previous
Infinoid prototype. Infinite Arkanoid, new levels are always coming slowly from above. Level is just pixel icon of 32*32 so you can have thousand of them,
Comix and character searching for my old game in 2009
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