Victor Gomes
Combat/Technical Designer with a programming background. Experienced in UE and Unity. Skilled in scripting and balancing.
Relevant Experience
Game Designer, Goat Simulator Remastered, Fishlabs UE4, (April 2024 - September 2024)
- Responsible for tweaking the Movement attributes of the game (running, jumping, steering) to ensure the movement would faithfully recreate the original’s game feel.
- Overhauled the AI of the game by reworking and polishing the BTs, walking routes, and attacks of all the NPCs in the game.
- Fine-tuned the attributes and feel of the 10+ vehicles of the game, as well as the values of over 20 of the playable Mutators.
- Closed over 30 bugs and worked closely with QA to improve the polish of the game.
Combat Designer, Dead Island 2: Neighborhood Watch, Fishlabs, UE4, (December 2023 - April 2024)
- Responsible for balancing the attributes of the 3 main classes of the game and the Co-op Scalers when playing in Multiplayer.
- Reworked 5 Player Abilities to ensure each one would feel unique; while also fine-tuning over 10 of them to guarantee they would be easy and fun to use.
- Did a balance pass on the enemy compositions of the 30 missions of the game to ensure a smooth experience.
- Closed over 10 bugs and worked closely with QA to improve the polish of the game.
Junior Combat Designer, Project Black (canceled), Fishlabs, UE5, (June 2022 - Decemeber 2023)
- Prototyped several systems for a 3rd person Sci-fi shooter using Blueprints, including player abilities, enemy interactions, weapons, melee attacks.
- Designed, prototyped, and balanced 3 “alien shooter weapons”; additionally, fine-tuned the attributes of 2 military weapons.
- Responsible for designing and implementing the AI behavior of 5 enemies using Unreal´s BT´s, and the Kythera AI middleware.
- In charge of the design of a drivable vehicle as well as fine-tuning it’s different attributes, such as acceleration and steering.
- Responsible for writing documentation on Confluence.
Freelance & Personal Projects
