Joan Ortiga Balcells

Socialpoint

Mobile Game Developer
Working in new games department for the company.
Unity, C#, Rider, Fork, Jira, and other inhouse softwares
Worked in a 15 people team
Hybrid

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IndieDevDay

Volunteering in the organisation of the event
IndieDevDay is an in-person event focused on Spanish independent videogame development. This year, with the outstanding sponsorship of the publisher Devolver Digital, the event has gone much further, attracting the international community. At the event, all kinds of games could be tested at the different stands, as well as professional talks about the game development.

At IndieDevDay I worked on the organisation and execution of the event in a 9-11 people team.
Making sure everything ran smoothly, helping the different stands with all their needs, setting up and dismantling the event, taking care of the merchandising shop and bookings, checking accreditations, among others, were some of my responsibilities.

We are already looking forward to next year's event!

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Kaneda Games

Internship at Kaneda Games
Developed an unannounced racing game for mobile, PC and consoles. I worked on the player controller, camera controller, water physics, AI logic, track system, different game modes, UI & menu flow, etc...

Unity, C#, Visual Studio, Sourcetree, Hack'n Plan
Pair programming, worked in a 5 people team
Presential

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Evil Zeppelin

Full time at Evil Zeppelin
Worked on a live service game with more than 500k users, and more than 1k Daily Average Users in Mobile, PC (Steam) and Web.
My main tasks are the development of new features (both server and client side) and bug fixing. I have implemented new game modes, new combat systems, port to steam, cross-platform account linking, and many, many more.

Unity, C#, Rider, Sourcetree, Trello
Playfab & javascript for server code, Steamworks, other SDKs
Worked in a 12 people team
Remote

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Xnergic - Tecnocampus

Casual & Part time at Xnergic (Tecnocampus)
I taught groups of 3 to 20 students how to program in C# and Unity. The students were between 6 and 18 years old.
I also participated and helped to organise events such as Tecnogirl* and Install Party.

*TecnoGirl is a project whose main objective is the dissemination of science and technology among secondary school students, and which especially aims to promote technological vocations in the group of girls aged between 12 and 18, in order to contribute to putting an end to the gender gap that exists in the professions in this field.
Mainly presential, occasionally remotely in the pandemic

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Lamter Engine

Game developed in C++. Uses a custom engine built for doing other console games.
You can download "SpaceShip_ConsoleGame.zip" to see the final sourcecode and play with the .exe

Compatibility:
Due to changes in Windows 11 console, there's only compatibility with Windows 10 and Windows 7

LamterEngine:
- Custom engine, with console buffer. Focused on getting rid of flickering and reducing drawcalls.
- Custom Input system, similar to popular engines. (GetKeyDown, GetKeyUp, GetKey).
- Custom time management, makes sure engine runs at X fps.
- Component driven system, similar to Unity.
- Collider component, and collision system.
- Utility functions like GetGameObjectOfTypeByTag that returns a pointer to the object with a tag.
- User only needs to write the main.cpp to make the engine run, without other tweekings.
- Using read/write of xml with tinyxml12 with layer of abstraction.
- (...)

Game features:
- Free movement of ship. (8 axis)
- 2 enemy types.
- Different drawing speeds depending on the movement speed.
- Customizable enemy spawn system:
- Rounds
- Enemy groups and spawning times. (Allows creating patterns of enemies very fast).
- Enemies: enemy type, delay between spawns, position, quantity.
- Score saved between sessions.

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Timer Dungeoneer

Welcome...
You are an slave who wakes up in an unknown dungeon. Scared as anyone would be, you try leaving that place. But when you start moving objects you find out something unexpected from the dungeon.
There is a timer inside the room, and when it hits 0, everything goes back at starting place, but you. Play with time to scape out.
Welcome to Timer Dungeoneer...

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HackStem21

HackStem21 is a hackathon of 3 days organized by Siemens Gamesa and SpanishStartUps, in collaboration with Microsoft and Lego Education. In this edition, we were asked to build an app that could help teachers explain better and students learn easier.

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SPAWNER TOOL EDITOR

SpawnerTool Editor is a Unity Tool that focuses on games like Tower Defense, arenas, or any game that needs round spawning system, or spawning system in general. In a totally visual way, you are able to customize spawn quantity, enemy type, spawn point, time between spawns, etc.... Tool is filled with examples, and it works out of the box.

Github
MANUAL
API

Current features:
- Resizable and responsive editor window where you can drag and drop, copy, paste, and change settings fastly.
- Customizable spawnpoint system
- Round Manager.
- Spawner system
- Easy to code and modify existing managers and systems. You are able to easly extract the data from the SpawnerGraph.
- Lots of features to keep comming, like the ability to modify different spawner blocks at the same time.
- Built arround quality of life and scability of the projects.
- Much more that comes with the documentation that will be soon avaiable.

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IT HAS TO BE YOU

It has to be you is a narrative-puzzle singleplayer game, set in a fantasy world, the tallest tower that exists is the headquarters of the most important university in the region where the events take place. You play as Azura, a young alchemist student, that will have to resolve the mystery behind Erline disappearance.
Game was made in 3 months
Here you can find some extra links about development stages:
Prototype
Alpha
Beta

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B O N D E D

We tried to make an hyperrealistic enviroment in 1 week in order to see what we could do and put us to the limit. The result is an introspective space game where via dialogues and some interaction with the spaceship, you need to survive to 5 years of adrift

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CodeBox

Organized by Siemens Gamesa, we had to find a way to make learning easy for students and teachers. We developed this app, a way to teach maths with augmented reality, via problem solving in real world. Programing works in a scratch-like game for the younger ones.

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Caecus

Organized by King, we had to develop a game which encourages inclusion. In our game, you take control of a blind person, who will fear the enviroment, sounds heard, and all kind of events. The only things you see is what you hear, and what you touch.

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Forgotten Books

Forgotten books, a stealth game where you are in a lost library, looking for real lost books. You end up finding monsters that you need to hide from.

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Baby King

Due to destiny, a baby has taken over a kingdom. You will have to make decisions for him, that keep him happy but do not anger the population.

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Pentagrammed

Become the best musician in the world, playing many instruments in the right time when song demands it. A fun platform game where you need to think the way to play the many instruments you have in the map in time. Battle versus 3 unique bosses and enviroments

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