Off The Grid is not just an amazing battle royale, it is also the first AAA game I worked on! When I joined, the team was composed of only two other developers, who found themselves having an increasingly high workload. The whole UX/UI team was trying to both optimize the existing HUD, expand it to …
The Machines Arena is a 4vs4 hero-based web3 arena shooter with a top camera, with a vibrant players’ base and an always-changing set of maps and game modes! My involvement on the project started in summer 2023, when I was hired to be the “UI guy” at the company and have ownership of the entire …
Civitas is an in-development community-driven web3 4X strategy game at Directive Games! The idea behind Civitas was to create a world where players literally owned the gameplay, with items such as clans, characters, buildings and political power were all hosted on the Web3 environment that was used to build Civitas. I worked on Civitas on …
This project was developed under extremely strict NDA clauses, I’ll try my best to get to describe it without giving anything away. Bear with me. During my time at Directive Games, we were approached by an external business who had a successful multiplayer experience where players could build and share their own worlds. However, they …
After the Ph.D. I felt that my time in the academic world was over, and I wanted to do more meaningful things in life. The first real full-time job in the industry was with realworld-one (yes, lowecased), a Germany-based spin-off of the more famous IKA. RWO, as it’s called among friends, wanted to create a …
In 2016 I joined the PERCRO – PERCeptual RObotics laboratories, as Junior Unity Developer on the MuraVagando project. Muravagando was a joint effort between a local high school in Grosseto (Italy) and the laboratory, aiming to promote a deeper understanding of local cultural heritage in high schools. This project was divided into three stages: I …
Oh, my first “real” job! Back in 2013 I spent a few months working as junior Django back-end developer at the Digital Humanities research center of King’s College London. Under the supervision of expert programmers, I was tasked to design and implement an efficient data-entry system for the EU-funded project DigiPal, a huge portal where …
In 2017 I was hired by the now-defunct London-based AR company ARTechs to supervise the photogrammetric 3D reconstructions of the “Mother and Child: Hood” statue by contemporary artist Henry Moore, temporarily in display at St Paul’s Cathedral. The job was fully remote, and the company CEO had to take the pictures himself following my direction. …