About

Game Development

Games, and how they feel to play.

Movement, cameras, combat, AI. I build the systems that decide how a game plays, and I teach other people to build them too.

engines

  • Unity Six years
  • Unreal Engine 5 Lead programmer
  • Endstar Engine Mentor · Endless Studios

Games

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Jul 2026 — Present

CQB Target Discrimination FPS

  • Unity
  • 3D

An in-progress Unity FPS about split-second target discrimination under pressure. Scoped deliberately to a demo.

  • Gameplay Programmer

Mar 2025 — Apr 2025

3D Viking Fighter Concept

  • Unity
  • 3D

A four-person 3D fighter concept I left after a month. Included for completeness rather than as a credential.

  • Gameplay Programmer

Sept 2024 — Dec 2024

Echoes of Marigold

  • Unity
  • 2D

A 2D Metroidvania built in Unity. Winner of Best Game Art Direction at the UAE Game Makers Competition.

  • Gameplay Programmer

Game Jams

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Heritage Gameathon · 3 days

Al Amana

  • Unity
  • 3D

A narrative survival game about carrying a mandoos across the desert after a storm, built in three days at the Heritage Gameathon in Abu Dhabi.

Systems & Tools

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Unity

Metroidvania Camera

A Cinemachine camera with dynamic Y-axis damping, trigger-based panning, and seamless directional swaps.

Unity

2D Blendspace Movement

Player movement built on a 2D blendspace across idle, jump, mid-air, fall, and landing, with synchronised animation.

Unreal Engine 5

Motion Warping Parkour

Real-time motion warping retargeting traversal animations onto whatever geometry the player actually ran at.

Unity · Tool

Camera Zone Editor Tool

A custom Unity Editor tool that let the whole team place and tune camera zones in the scene view, without touching code.

Devlog

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Jul 2026

Starting the CQB shoot house

Kicking off a small FPS about target discrimination under pressure, and why the scope is deliberately tiny.

Teaching

I mentor at two levels — graduate students through a structured Unity curriculum, and high-school teams building their own games in Endstar Engine and Godot, each cohort ending in a pitch and a playable prototype.

The full background →