• 📍 Netherlands, Remote
• 🎯 Open to Unity/Unreal gameplay & tools roles — and to AI workflow / agent engineering work
• 🔗 Portfolio · LinkedIn · itch.io · Other Links

• Unreal Engine Game/Tools Programmer Intern @ Vertigo Games (2025) ▸ Product Showoff · Video
• Unity Developer Intern @ Capitola Digital (2023–2024) ▸ Product Showoff · Video

• 🎮 Pixel Break — 2D top-down puzzle action shooter, 2-person team, Steam page in preparation
• 🖐️ VR contact hands — procedural hand/environment interaction, targeting a Fab plugin
• 🤖 Agent workflow design — governed automation, local retrieval, spec-first delivery
• 🧩 Extracting reusable Unity packages out of shipped projects

Lead Game Programmer · 6-person team · Unity 6.3 · GMTK Game Jam 2026 + post-jam pass

Build momentum through corridors while a ghost takes turns hunting you back. Shipped a complete loop in 4 days as sole dedicated programmer, then ran a documented stabilization pass.

• State authorities publish events instead of reaching into each other; cross-system consequences isolated in named bridge components
• All tuning in 8 ScriptableObject settings assets — designers rebalance without code
• Ghost AI state machine: line-of-sight perception, chase/flee/freeze, NavMesh
• GitHub Actions + game-ci + butler pipeline, auto-deploys to itch.io on QA push

C# Unity 6 NavMesh ScriptableObjects GitHub Actions

Solo Tools Programmer · Unity · installable via UPM

A project-specific level-flow workflow, rebuilt as a reusable package — then consumed by my own game as a tagged Git dependency.

• ScriptableObject LevelDefinition / LevelSequence assets: stable IDs, scene refs, ordered flow
• Replaceable scene loading via ILevelSceneLoader (fades, Addressables, save gates, tests)
• Inspector validation for duplicate IDs, null entries, Build Settings drift — plus strict build blocking
• Documentation and a Basic Level Flow sample for adoption outside the original project

C# Unity UPM Editor tooling

Solo Programmer · Unreal Engine 5 · C++

A modular gameplay ability system written to be read: ownership, behavior, and tuning data deliberately separated.

• AbilityComponent / ability logic / DataAssets split three ways
• Dash, Projectile and PulseScan abilities via polymorphic ability classes
• Cooldown management and event broadcasting; tuning lives in data, not code

C++ Unreal Engine 5 DataAssets

Solo Unreal Engine VR Developer · prototype → testing

Hands that respond to what they touch, instead of replaying authored poses. Follows on from the Hand Pose Editor I built at Vertigo Games, which solved the static half of the same problem.

• Procedural finger posing driven by surface traces and IK (CCDIK / FABRIK / FBIK under evaluation)
• Engine path and MVP scope currently being decided; targeting a Fab plugin release

Unreal Engine VR IK

Solo Developer & Designer · Unreal Engine · C++ and Blueprints · 2024

My first Unreal project, taken from concept to finished game — then reopened six months later and rebuilt around an endlessly generating landscape.

• Extended Edition: noise-driven procedural terrain that generates ahead of the rider, with obstacles and terrain transitions adapting during the run
• Physics-based snowboard handling; C++ and Blueprints split across gameplay and tuning
• Full cycle solo: gameplay, procedural content, UI/UX, audio, QA passes for performance and stability
• Shipped, then extended — the second edition exists because the first one was finished

Unreal Engine C++ Blueprints Procedural generation Physics

I build with agents, not from them: specs and contracts first, constrained execution, human approval at every semantic change, verification before a claim is made. The rules live in the repositories, committed next to the code they govern.

Governed agentic automation platform — solo architect & operator · Python / PowerShell / TypeScript · private repo

• 25 tool trees where every autonomous capability is flag-gated, recorded in an audit trail, and reversible to a byte-identical prior state
• Offline retrieval over a private Markdown corpus — local embeddings and vector store, exposed to AI assistants through a read-only MCP server, privacy enforced at index construction
• 9 capability areas taken from manual operation to 12 scheduled unattended jobs, the fastest on a 10-minute cycle
• Spec-first delivery: 28 specifications, 25 phased roadmaps with explicit exit gates, 29 automated test suites, a 55-check deterministic validator

The method is public even where the platform isn't — committed artifacts, not claims:

Note: These currently only represent AI use with game development. Check my LinkedIn for more AI related posts.

• Parallel-Worktree-Contracts.md — ownership contracts that kept 6 people and their agents across ~20 branches from damaging serialized Unity assets
• Engineering-Decisions.md — decision record maintained during a 4-day jam

Claude Code Codex MCP Python PowerShell TypeScript Local embeddings + vector store

Three consecutive GMTK Game Jams — 27,591 entries between them. Each one a finished, publicly playable, publicly rated build.

_{Pixel Break grew out of its 2024 jam build into an ongoing commercial project. TagDown's audio system became a reusable Unity package.}

Pixel Break — 2D top-down puzzle action shooter · Game Programmer · 2-person team · 2024–present Custom resizable playable game-window mechanic, stencil-buffer masking, runtime settings persistence. The level-flow tooling here became the Unity package above. ▸ Play Game Jam build

Governed agentic automation platform — solo architect · Python / PowerShell / TypeScript · private 25 tool trees where every autonomous capability is flag-gated, audited, and reversible to a byte-identical prior state. Offline retrieval over a private Markdown corpus (local embeddings + vector store) exposed to AI assistants through a read-only MCP server.

Earlier team & school projects (2021–2024)

Cinematic QTE Experience · Unreal · 7-person team · 2024–2025 Product Owner / SCRUM Master / Dev Team Lead. Motion capture pipeline; built a mocap sync tool for facial + body capture. ▸ Watch	Toy Room Showdown · Unity · 7-person team · 2023 Sole programmer. Asymmetric party game; Photon online multiplayer, PC + mobile builds, accelerometer input, original soundtrack. ▸ Watch · Repo
3D Exploration Quest Game · Unity · 6-person team · 2022 Sole programmer. Quest/task system, switching between player and vehicle control states, node-based pedestrian and traffic movement over NavMesh. ▸ Watch · private repo	Scribble Tales · Unity · 2022 Co-op read-and-draw story game for a parent and child. Runtime text-file story loading, audio system, branching story paths. ▸ Watch · Repo
Seaside Monster Cup · Unity · 7-person team · 2023 Sole programmer. Kart racing with power-ups; car physics, local 4-player split-screen, Cinemachine and post-processing. Repo

• Engines Unity 2021 · Unity 2022 · Unity 6 · Unreal Engine 5
• Languages C# · C++ · Python · PowerShell
• Gameplay ScriptableObject-driven design · State Machines · NavMesh AI · Physics & Interactions
• Tools Unity Editor tooling · UPM packages · Unreal DataAssets · Editor validation
• XR Meta Quest · Hand interaction & pose authoring
• Pipeline Git / Git LFS · Perforce · GitHub Actions · game-ci · butler
• AI / Agents Claude Code · Codex · MCP servers · Prompt engineering · Context engineering · Harness engineering · Local embeddings & vector search · Spec-first agent workflows

_{Also worked with: Java, libGDX, GXPEngine, SQL/Node.js, Flutter}

_{📫 https://www.linkedin.com/in/alansafonov - Open to collaboration and inquiries}