BURDEN

Role : Game design, code, art
Duration : 2 weeks, for the Gamedev.js Jam 2025
Engine : Godot 4

Skills : • Puzzle/Level design
• Narrative design
• An atypical 3Cs implementation to bring a new perspective to chess

BURDEN is a puzzle game inspired by chess. Within a dark atmosphere, you are the last spawn standing against the Chained Queen. Will you be able to defeat her ?

• Play chess from a pawn perspective. Unable to see the whole board, players have to be cautious.
• Contols are « planified turn-based ». With the help of a timeline, players are able to planify up to 5 moves ahead. Design-side, I combined it with a turn limit per level, forcing players to take a moment to think further than one move at a time. Therefore, they have too take risks sometimes.
• I took a great attention to the game atmosphere, I wanted something strange and dark. Chained Queens talks are voluntarily enigmatic.

BURDEN on itch.io

Alya

Role : Technical Game Designer
Duration : 1 month, for the Boss Rush Jam 2025
Engine : Unreal 5 – Blueprint

Skills : • Boss design
• Prototype the character controller and boss ideas in blueprint
• Manage a multi-disciplinary team of 4 people

Alya is a third person 3D game where players can use a magic helix wand to fly and fight in a desert full of illusions.

• The main challenge was the character controller. Alya has a generous move set. She’s able to jump, attack, shield and dive to explore and fight. I paid attention to code something functionnal but also as smooth as possible in a single month.
• Bosses are designed to « sublime » the character controller. Each of them aims to challenge a part of Alya’s move set with a singular gimmick.

ALYA on itch.io

STAR GARDENER

Role : Game Designer
Duration : 6 months (on-going)
For : Annoying Frog Studio (~20 people)
Itch.io link : Click here

Missions :
• Proposal of fun game mechanics while transmitting a powerful ecological message:
The player explores a desolate planet and uses magical pollen to restore life by growing grass.
• Promotion of the importance of ecological gestures with recognition of the difficulty they entail.
• Supervised two other designers and used Unreal Engine 5 to facilitate asset integration and improve team efficiency.
• Dedication to creating a viable and achievable project, while providing a unique experience for players.

Star Gardener is a poetic single-player exploration game where your goal is to collect the last traces of existing pollen in order to revitalize it and make it bloom again. By spreading this pollen thoughtfully, you can move forward in this lost world and learn more about the journey ahead.

DOCUMENTATION

Here are some examples of documentation I made during the production of the Star Gardener.
The presentation below was made to convey a clear idea of what we (game designers) wanted to bring to the character and its ability to move and explore the world in a unique way. In the early drafts, we tried something close to Death Stranding controller but due to time and technical restrictions, we were obligated to design a more simple controller.

I also made some shorter document like the UI one to go directly to the essential. They were here to indicate the global idea of a concept to our programmers and artists what we needed at the time.

MEDIAS

inTIErrupted

👔 inTIErrupted is a 2 player co-op game made during an alternative controler class.
The players main goal is to untie completly a 10 feet (3 meters) long tie without being caught.

I was mainly in charge of the level design and balancing.
Due to our schedules, I also ended up being in charge of the code in C# with Unity to finish the game in the following months, since inTIErrupted was selected for the GDC 2023 for the ALT.CTRL exhibit!

You can check the interview we did with Game Developer about the creation process of the game:
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/alt-ctrl-gdc-2023/-intierrupted-cooperatively-untangles-a-tie-filled-with-puzzles

Trailer made to present the first prototype of the game.

Overview made for our entry for ALT.CTRL #GDC23

Credits

Game Design
Clément Nowacki – https://www.linkedin.com/in/clement-nowacki/
Océane Famechon – https://famechonoceane.wixsite.com/portfolio

Game Art
Valentin Lothe – https://www.artstation.com/swiftshepard
Zoé N’Guy – https://zoe_ngy.artstation.com/

Game Programming
Elvis Henry – https://henryelvis.fr/
Lucas Esposito – https://mresport.itch.io/
Pierre Mariotte – https://pierremariotte98.wixsite.com/portfolio

Producing & Marketing
Margaux Courtois – https://www.linkedin.com/in/margauxcourtois/

UX & UI Design
Maurane Danloy – https://www.linkedin.com/in/maurane-danloy/
Laetitia Dionisi
Oceane Hadjadj – https://www.linkedin.com/in/oceane-hadjadj-31366b195/

Thanks to Tatiana Vilela Dos Santos and Olivier Drouet for their help on this project! (http://mechbird.fr)

HARDSPACE : SHIPBREAKER

Role : QA Analyst
Duration : 18 months
For : Focus Entertainment

Missions :
• Collaborate closely with the developers to ensure the high quality of the game.
• Responsible for identifying, tracking and effectively reporting issues through advanced use of the JIRA platform.
• Participate in weekly meetings with game developers to discuss progress and improvements.
• Actively contribute to the continuous improvement of the gaming experience by providing detailed feedback and constructive recommendations.

Hardspace : Shipbreaker is a 3D puzzle game where the player is a shipbreaker, a job with heavy risk but high rewards. The job of a shipbreaker is to salvage every component of old space ships in the minimum amount of time, without making everything explode – player included -.

EVA Stadium / After-H

Role : QA Tester
Duration : 6 months
For : E.V.A. (website)

Missions :
• Actively contributed to the launch of VR experiences AFTER-H and EVA Stadium.
• Played a vital role as QA Tester, ensuring optimal game quality and reporting bugs to the development team.
• Participated in major events, including Paris Games Week 2019, where I proudly represented the team and the game to an enthusiastic audience.
• Tested different versions of the game, including the indoor arcade version, the Steam version and the impressive 500m² freeroaming arena, allowing players to roam freely.
• Used tools such as Trello and Google Sheets to generate detailed bug reports and developed custom test sheets to help organize and track issues.

After-H for EVA Stadium is a very innovative 4v4 competitive VR shooter. Each player has a VR headset, a VR gun and a PC-Backpack that allow them to move freely in spaces up to 500 m².

BWOK

Role : Game design & Game art
Duration : ~4 months, as a student project
Engine : Unity
Skills :
• Creation of easy-to-understand game items
• Creation of a fun universe to play with
• Team working

BWOK is a sandbox game where you play as the kind astronaut farmer who raises a bunch of beaked scoundrels.

Chickens have differents elemental states (frozen, in fire etc.) that they can transmit to their peers and some environmental items, such as the player precious but very delicate corn field. Unconscious and insensitive to the consequences of their actions, these cute gallinaceans tends to create a monstruous chaos!

Large view of the game area with a bunch of bwoks

A gameplay video made by a player/youtuber while discovering BWOK (in French):

BWOK on itch.io

BWOK is also the basis of another project named « BWOK BALL« . The core gameplay remains the same but some tweaks were applied to turn a low-pace sandbox into a frenetic 2v2 couch game !

Every player has to find specific chickens to score a maximum amount of points by throwing them into goals. The time is limited, and each team can steal their opponents high-score-bwok!

In-Game screenshot with the splitted view

BWOKBALL ON ITCH.IO

BWOK and BWOKBALL were also made by:

Fabien CALENDIER
Game design

Julien LIAUZUN
Programming

Aurélien RITA
Programming

Jérémie TORDJMAN
Sound design

GONZ

Role : Game design & game art
Duration : ~ 4 months, as a student project
Engine : Unity

Skills :
• Interactivity between the differents states of every characters
• Design of child-friendly universe with a dark plot
• Team working
• Learned how 3D games work

GONZ is a mass-murder simulator for children.

It’s a sand box / god game made during my 2nd year at ICAN. You incarnate a bored god who decided to have to some fun by sending deadly weapons to its own creations to see them kill each other.