My name is Tim Nguyen but you can call
me Akynna ☺️
I am a passionate game developer with a strong
background in XR technologies.
I am a Graduated Master Computer Science Engineer from EPFL,
interested in Game Design/Development.
On my free time, I got to develop a lot of games with Unity and acquired lots
of experience while working on VR & PC applications.
I am now working part-time as a freelance Game Developer
and animating coding workshops for girls around 11-15 years old.
If you have an idea of a video game, I can make it for you !
Feel free to check out my past work
and to contact me !
LOFI Katana is a VR rhythm game taking you to a peaceful world
and revisiting the way to play rhythm games in an aesthetic and
relaxing environment. The game uses a sophisticated procedural system that
analyzes the music and creates a unique gameplay track that matches the
rhythm and beat of any music.
I had the pleasure to be the Lead Project Manager and Developer of this
VR game and acquired a lot of experience, especially on how to deliver a game
on Steam on my own.
The key points this project taught me was how to:
- Create a VR experience from scratch using Unity
- Design and implement a complete VR User Interface (UI) with
animations using a laser pointer
- Integrate and use Steamworks and Twitch APIs
- Optimize a VR game's performance to maintain a high framerate, which
is a crucial feature in this field for the user to feel comfortable
while playing
- Build the game to be supported on different devices such as SteamVR-
compatbile headsets, Oculus devices, Quest2, etc.
- Export the game on the Steam platform and manage its release date, Play Test sessions,
Store Page, builds management
- Meet and collaborate with publishers to organize the marketing aspect of the game
The Rugdollz Game is a multiplayer platformer game where we can play a
little rug bunny doll and race against other players to get coins around
the map.
The Ruglabz Team I worked with was incredibly nice and welcoming. I worked
on this project for 3 months with another colleague at raptor lab and we
built the game totally from scratch.
For this project, I have managed to:
- Operate as the Project Manager of this game, plan a development
schedule for the project to fit 3 months, write a Game Design Document
to presesnt our client our services
- Regularly provide a playable demo to our client each week to get
their feedback and apply the changes for the next build
- Adapt and clean an existing soloplayer code base to build a
multiplayer game using Photon Fusion
- Code different platforms' and obstacles' behaviour and synchronized
them on the network for a multiplayer platformer expeerience
- Design and code a complete UI on PC (minimap, multiplayer chat,
animated leaderboard, statistics' display, game's tips, loading
screen, starting screen...)
- Perform the majority of the Game Design
- Perform the majority of the Sound design
In collaboration with the company Smartverse, Sanofiverse is a virtual multiplayer
web experience designed to represent the Sanofi company and their services
Along with working as a Project Manager for this experience, I also operated as a
Game Designer and Developer in order to create a fully multiplayer experience that
would be playable in web browsers.
In order to deliver this product, my tasks were focused on the following aspects:
- Planning milestones, demos, regular test sessions to show our progress
- Quickly protoyping the experience to follow 3 similar areas requested by Exoflow
- Implementation of a functional User Interface with animations
- Collaboration with 3D artists to design an experience that would fit to our clients' expectations.
The Smartverse is a project designed and financed by the company Exoflow.
They requested a multiplayer experience in a web browser that would be used
in companies to socialize and organize virtual events.
I did not coded much for this project but worked more as a Project Manager. I regularly
updated the Exoflow Team about our progress, set deadlines and milestones for the internal
at raptor lab. For the coding/implementation part, I worked on:
- The Tutorial, Objective features
- Coded an adaptive dialogue system to allow any Game Designer to
add their own dialogues with audio files, camera positions, etc.
- Taking care of the exportation on WebGL of the project
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