Giacomo Salvadori

Technical Game Designer

I usually work with two of the most important engines on the market. I have both experience in B2B and B2C game dev. My experience ranges from games for a great audience to specific apps for customers with AR or VR technologies. I also put my experience at the service of Packt Publishing as a reviewer for the book Unity AI Programming.


C++ Unreal Engine 4
I really started to use the engine from 2019, focusing on game mechanics and AI.

• Implement mechanic for third person game
• AI implementation
• Knowledge of network basics for multiplayer games
• B2C experience in a larger studio at Stormind Games, as AI programmer in 2021.
  • Help to design and define enemies
  • Implement NPCs behaviour with hierarchical state machine
  • Handle multiple tasks and working with agile methodology
  • Here I worked with JIRA, Confluence and Perforce
  • Experience in a AA team

• B2C - Technical designer for Football Drama
• B2B - Dev for edu games
• B2B - Mobile and VR application for customers in the high fashion field

Professor

Helping groups of young adults to deliver their first game as a team. I take care about lessons on Unreal (both Blueprint and C++), Unity, AI and technical game design aspects of a game.

Research Fellowship

Here I develop the entire client-side of the application with Unity. The application was a room decorator, both VR and AR builds were developed. Data and 3d models are taken from a remote server and downloaded at runtime. I was the tech-owner of both apps.

• AR dev, used Agora plugin for screenshare between devices
• VR dev, Meta Quest 2 used
• Handling everything entirely by myself
• Define a data structure shared between the app and the backend system
• Sync with backend developers

Assistant Professor

In the academic year 2017-18 I had my first teaching experience and during this period I helped the professor manage four teams. These teams were composed by game designers, concept artists and programmers. My support was mainly focused on teamwork, letting the group create a playable video game. I also had the opportunity to be an assistant teacher of a game design course, helping the students move their first steps in the game development world and introducing them to Game Maker, Unity and Unreal Engine 4.

Programmer

At first, I created interfaces for the new management software to improve the efficiency of CRM and Back Office. After a first period of front-end development began the back-end experience, where I learned the PL/SQL basics. I developed procedures to facilitate the billing process. I also made the data migration in the new software for the gas part. It is here that my knowledge of Oracle DB grew. During the last year and a half I started to develop a new software for the management of contracts loading with senior programmers. This was also the opportunity to introduce a centralized user control system and a software monitoring system.

Event Horizon - school of digital art

Università degli studi di Firenze