Welcome to my Portfolio!
Work Experience
Tencent Games
Technical Designer
Department: Honor of Kings: World;
Duration: May 2024 - August 2024;
Platform: Unreal; Languages: C++, Blueprints;
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Redesigned the logic for a core gameplay mechanic, incorporating inter-Blueprint communication, server-client synchronization, and server-side saving/loading, leading to an 80% reduction in configuration overhead and improved loading times.
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Created Blueprint classes with Unreal Engine's network features, enabling them for online gaming.
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Designed and integrated a new interactive animation logic that combined walking and motion warping, easily configurable via data tables, resulting in smoother and more natural interactions.
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Enhanced open-world loading performance by utilizing Python to create sublevels and transfer existing actors without data loss.
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Using Sequencer crafted animations and camera movements, improving player interactive feedback.
Professional Projects
Serenity Citadel
Duration: 2023-Present; Team Size: 7;
Platform: Unreal; Languages: C++, Blueprints;
Serenity Citadel depicts an idyllic life in a cyber world which includes a farming module and a world-exploring module.
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Adapted as an interactive installation with alt control and displayed in Fusion Symbiosis Art Installation Exhibition in Nanjing, China.
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Using Unreal Utility, implemented a grid map spawner and random terrain generation based on Perlin Noise with easy designer access.
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Programmed level transition using level streaming and sublevels, realizing quick and consistent level loading.
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Realized character switching and controller action remapping using Enhanced Input System.
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Applied singleton design patterns with Unreal subsystems.
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Implemented interaction system based on a collision box attached to the player and interactables with custom collision channel.
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Programmed an UI system manager based on widget switcher
Dream Circuit
Duration: 2025 (6 weeks); Team Size: 3;
Platform: Unreal VR; Languages: C++, Blueprints;
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Dream Circuit is a VR game developed in a 6-week hackathon. The player acts as a robot, arbitarily using different tools on objects and thus learning the life of humans.
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Quickly mastered Unreal VR features to implement the game loop, including hand tracing, hand interactions, and haptics feedback.
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Implemented user interfaces in VR and iterated the UX design to alleviate motion sickness.
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Used subclasses and interfaces in the code structure to enhance decoupling, flexibility, and easy access in Blueprints.
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Provided readable interfaces in Blueprints for designers to quickly prototype and test.
Planet X
Duration: 2019-2023; Team Size: 10;
Platform: Unity; Languages: C#;
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Planet X is a strategic game where players represent nations, simulating international cooperation in the face of environmental issues.
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Programmed the whole game loop including player actions, numerical systems, and UIs.
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Engineered game AIs based on behavior trees, simulating imperfect information decision making.
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Designed and implemented designer configuration method reading json.
The Post Oracle:
- A Narrative Game Framework
Duration: 2021-2023; Team Size: 3;
Platform: Unity; Languages: C#, Java;
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The Post Oracle is a female-oriented narrative game. A writer-friendly narratice game interface is implemented from scratch.
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Engineered a visual novel framework in both in Java and Unity enabling designers to create dialogues, branches, and animations in natural languages, and keep track of the narrative branches in a datatable.
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Crafted the UI/UX in both design sense and programming sense.
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Implemented a local save & load system.
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Designed and prototyped a CRPG-like skill system and designer-friendly interface.
Rapid Prototypes
Dungeon Cleaner
Jan. 2024 | Unreal 5 | Blueprints | Duration: 3 weeks
Dungeon Cleaner is an alt control game. Players slap on a silicon cube in reality and move the ooze in the game. Traverse the map and clean every corner!
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A designer-friendly map generator with variables representing the map, including a 2D Boolean array and coordinates, open to edit in the level editor
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Audruino hardware integration based on SerialCom Plugin
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Pawn movement logic
Building!
Nov. 2023 | Unreal 5 | Blueprints | Duration: 3 weeks
Building is a gymnastics game related to the verb Build. Players use balloons, propellers, and bombs to build a carrier to cross the river.
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A building module where players can combine and delete cubes to build equipment
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Breadth-first search for deletion logic
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Physics simulation
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Run-time mesh manipulation using Geometry Script Library
Show Yourself
Oct. 2023 | Unity VR | C# | Duration: 4 weeks
Show Yourself is a VR prototype where players can interact with objects, explore the space, and make choices. Download here
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Unity VR integration, including player movement, transportation, UI interaction, holding and moving interactables
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VR hand presence with controller
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Hand animation using Unity animation Blend Tree
About Me
My name is Junxuan Hu;
You can also call me Skylar!
I'm a game engineer / technical designer from China.
I decided to become a game developer since my high school.
My wish is to create an utopia in games where all people can live in peace.
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Contact
+1 801-641-2602
