Portfolio Judith Verdonck

Hi!

I am a junior gameplay programmer and game designer, freshly graduated as game developer from Howest, Digital Arts and Entertainment.

I enjoy the creative process behind a game and love translating the game mechanic ideas into actual code. In order to accomplish that translation, I gladly jump into research and learning new things.
Indie Games like Ori and the Blind Forest, Hades and Hellblade inspire me to make high-quality games, even with a small team and limited resources.

Work in progress - projects

Free time.
Alone and in team.
Any software I might need.

I am always busy with something! Look here to see what projects I am currently working on.

Internship: 2 Games a Month

2021-2022; third year, second semester at DAE.
Projects made in groups of 3-5 people.
4 months in total, 2-3 weeks per project.
C++ in Unreal Engine 4 and C# in Unity.

Game design x6.
Quick prototyping.

Curse of the Pyramid Grads in Games shortlist image

Curse of the Pyramid: shortlisted!

Curse of the pyramid was shortlisted on Grads in Games Awards, category student games (group)! We were super honoured to be chosen with 6 other games to compete for one last round.

Forest fire simulator

2021-2022; third year, first semester at DAE.
Worked on the project on my own.
2 months for research and project.
C++ in Unreal Engine 4.

Research and application of that research.
Writing a paper.

Curse of the pyramid

2021-2022; third year, first semester at DAE.
Group of 3 artists and 2 programmers.
3 months to make the game.
C++ in Unreal Engine 4.

Tackled player, enemies, their AI, and the animations.
Actively participated in game design discussions.

A Piece of Planet

2020-2021; second year, second semester at DAE.
Group of 3 artists and 2 programmers.
12 weeks (+- 2 days a week) to make the game.
C++ in Unreal Engine 4.

Tackled problems that required some research, like having a spherical, tiled planet.
Took up role as project lead.
Did a lot of the communication between programmers and artists (teamwork during covid-pandemic).

What's your life worth?

2020-2021; second year, first semester at DAE.
Worked on the project on my own.
6 weeks to make the game.
C# in Unity.

Learned the basics of working with Unity and C#.
Single shooting function for all shooting behavior.

Storywriting

Free time.
Mainly Dutch, also English.

In-depth world-building.
Short and long stories.
Mainly fantasy or fantasy-elements.

Combat Arena

2020-2021; second year, first semester at DAE.
Worked on the project on my own.
6 weeks to make the game.
Blueprints in Unreal Engine 4.

Learned using blueprints more in-depth.
Dove into the animation system Unreal Engine provides.

3D - workflows

2019-2021; courses at DAE.
Worked on the projects on my own.
12 weeks per project.
3DsMax, Photoshop, Substance Painter.

Learned using 3D and texturing software.
Both low- and highpoly modeling workflows.

Judith Verdonck

Gameplay programmer - Game designer