Kouji

iOS | C# | Augmented reality (Vuforia & ARKit) | Unity3D

Kouij is an augmented reality messaging application. The user can create his own avatar and uses it to shows its mood to his friends.
This application has been featured on the AppleStore!

This project is the second application created by Spooklight studios. This app let you Create a 3D avatar and send movie clip using Augmented reality to create a context with your environement. Your avatar will have many animations to communicate your feelings, humor, or other appropriate meaning you want to share with your friends.

On this project I have been the lead programmer. I worked with 7 developers, 1 artist director, 1 character designer and 4 animators.

Core: The augmented reality technologies used in the application depends on the phone and its version. I created a complete system to instantiate dynamically the correct SDK and linked it to the rest of the application. In case, we want to add another SDK, there is only one class to create to maintain it. The class that rules the application and defined all states that command the application has been defined and developed by myself.

AR: I was in charge of all features based on the augmented reality. Here is some examples: Marker taking, placing the character in the environment, simulating a position in the real environment of the user.

UI/Interaction: As a lead, I worked on the logic for the different transition between the screens and several other logic about the item instantiating and 3D rendering in the menu. The most difficult thing has been to manipulate the character on a 2D plane based on the gyroscope of the phone and simulates these input in the 3D environment of the AR SDK. The axes where never corresponding so I had to manage global and local positions.

Project: As a lead, my main responsibility was to be the reference for all of my colleagues. I answered to the application integrity questions and all others demands for the architecture. I was also responsible for the production of the version for the different stores we are targeting.

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Storyfab

iOS | C# | Augmented reality (Vuforia) | Unity3D

Storyfab is an iOS application who helps the user to create short films by using augmented reality.
This application has been featured on the AppleStore!

This project was the idea which created Spooklight studios. In this application, you take a real image as the support for the augmented reality. Then, you can use a complete 3D library with characters, decors, props, music, image filters in order to give a real ambiance to your movie. You can make your characters act, then record a movie to share it with the community or your friends. Storyfab successfully complete a Kickstarter campaign!

When the studio has been founded, I was the only developer. I had to learn how to merge the new technologies together to record films in augmented reality. By being the most educated with Unity in our team, I also take in charge the pipeline of assets integration. In addition, I have worked on all aspect of the product :

UI: All UIs were designed by our art director. I have integrated them and animated them for every menu and interactions.

Gameplay: To film a video, the application uses a timeline. I created a complete time manager that allow the user to go back on time to an exact frame. All informations are saved : positions, rotations, animations, objects, states.

Core: The challenge was to use a AR technology with a video recording one in order to merge film parts. The first version of Storyfab is reliant on the AR solution. The avatar window show a complete problematic of the application : everything have to be customizable. I have created a character manager that can be expanded in the future with new features.

Tool: To help the artistic team of the studio to integrate assets more easily, I developed several tools to facilitate their works. For example, one tool is specialized to create staging for the several themes we have.

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Pin table

C# | HLSL // CG | Unity3D

The pin table was a challenge brought by one of my colleague. The objective was to recreate a 3D table like in the movies.

All the logics are in the github repository. Only the images used for the channel of the shader are not created from scratch.

The part about the keyboard displacement can be used with a ball and a gyroscope to move a ball around the displacement shader. It can also be used to control a character in a strange world. This is more a proof of concept than a real game. This project is a technical challenge.

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Fairy Chess

JAVA | Swing | Artificial Intelligence

Fairy chess is a chess game with more rules than the usual board game.
Rules can be read here: Fairy chess on Wikipedia

The goal of this project was first to develop a fairy chess with JAVA. The interface had to be made with the library "Swing". For the more advanced groups, we had the possibility to create a primary artificial intelligence.

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Grid game

JAVA | Swing | Artificial Intelligence

During my last months of my "two-year intensive univsersity diploma", we had to chose a project and developed it.

I've chosen the "grid game". It's like the tic-tac-toe, but on a larger grid and it only finishes when all cells have been filled. The real interest of this project is the analyse on the artificial intelligence. It was also a primary intelligence by selecting the better move, but it was optimized in several functions. These functions, depending on their call order, determined the level of the AI. We also created an "unbeatable level" against which we never won (maybe because we weren't really good at this game).

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Lord of the Race

C++ | SFML

On the contrary of its name, "Lord of the race" is an unpretentious game realized with C++ and the library SFML. The objective of this game has been to discover the principle of the state machines. This game can be played with a joypad (natives Joypads like XBOX controller are better).

In this game, you drive (from the sky) a car on a circuit. You have to make the best lap time.
Commands:
- UP / A button: Go forward
- DOWN / X button: Break
- Left / Right / Joysticks: Rotate the vehicle
- Escape / Back: Close the game

SFML : SFML library
The game can be downloaded. You only have to unzip it and launch the (.exe) file.

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Plateformer

C++ | SFML

This game was my second test to explore the state machine solution for game programming. The physical motor (based on a force system) is complete and I even try to implement a "shadow switch" function in order to test my system. This game can be played with an XBOX controller.

In this game you control a little character who must reach the little flag. To accomplish the 3 levels, he has to jump or use the "shadow switch".
Commands:
- UP / A: Jump
- Left / Right / Joysticks: Move to the left or right
- Left Shift / X: Place a shadow
- Space / Y: Switch your position with the shadow and keep your momentum
- Escape / Back: Close the game

Credits :
Character sprite sheet: videogame "Braid"
SFML: SFML library
The game can be downloaded. You only have to unzip it and launch the (.exe) file.

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Gamer Is Coming

Podcast | Radio program

Gamer Is Coming is a radio emission talking about video games. It debates about video games and integrates them in our world (parallel to the cinema for example).

The goal of this radio program is to make people who listen to us thinks about video games and have an open minded about what they can see and what they can play.

All files can be downloaded by clicking on the hyperlink on the right of the player.

Podcast created by :
- Benoit "Tacaisse" BEROULE
- Maxime "Proko" de VECCHI
- Romain "Droum" THIBAUD

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Tea Time

SQL | HTML | PHP5 | CSS3

In November 2014, the student associations of my university has organised a game jam. The theme was "Tea Time". With two friends, we have decided to create a textual RPG with the web technologies.

The problem in a textual RPG as we can find them in books, it's that you die for no reason. You can't turn and run away. So we decided to implement a "back in time" system. And, for more fun because we like when the player have to think, we also implemented a complete craft system.

The game can be played online.

Game programming : Maxime de VECCHI

Scenario written by: - Benoit BEROULE - Maxime de VECCHI - Morgane LE BRIS

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Pimp my Epicness

Unity3D | C#

Our students' association made a second game jam. The theme of this one was "Le héro dont vous êtes l'histoire" (that can be translated like "The hero that you be the story"). We were a group of two at the beginning of the jam, and we finished as a group of three.

The objective of this game is to upgrade a hero by building the dungeons around it. You decide to place monsters, traps, (and maybe one day loots) in order to make the hero level up and reach the next level. The hero is controlled with an A* algorithm to go through the dungeon.

Programming : Maxime de VECCHI
Sound design : Milan "Edrevan" IRIGOYEN
Graphism : Juliette VOISIN

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What's in the dark ?

Unity3D | C#

"What's in the dark ?" is the result of another game jam. We decided to develop a game in two days about a previous international game jam theme. We've chosen: "It's dangerous to go alone". After a huge brainstorm, we ended with our concept : "What's in the dark"

At the origin, this game was designed to be a "Die and retry" / "Speedrun" / "Plateform" game. We've only kept the "Die and retry" / "Plateform" axes to make it more accessible during the development.

Here's the name:
- Programming: Maxime de VECCHI

- Sound Design: Milan "Edrevan" Irigoyen

- Level Design:
Maxime de VECCHI
Emmanuel CARRERES

- Game Design:
Maxime de VECCHI
Emmanuel CARRERES
Milan "Edrevan" IRIGOYEN

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Clones

Unreal Engine 4 | C++

"Clones" is the result of a tutorial about Unreal Engine 4. When I completed the tutorial, I decided to recreate the game from zero and to add my content. The goal of this project was to create a 3D prototype with Unreal by using the majority of its components (Matinee, Particle effect, Persona)

"Clones" is a shooter game. The objective is to have the highest score of the game.
It only contains one level (for now).

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Definitely Not A Medley

Unity3D | C# | Blender

The result of another game jam, DNAM is based on the theme "When the beat drops". Its concept is simple : it's a two player board game where you have to control points to play your music in order to win points. It's a tactical game where you have to manage : your respawn points, the possibility to hide your units, and the possibility to make them advance faster than just one tile after another.

This game is meant to be played by two players.

Everything is described in the tutorial in the game.

Programming :
- Maxime de VECCHI
- Valentin LE MORVAN

Music : Milan "Edrevan" IRIGOYEN

Game Design :
- Maxime de VECCHI
- Valentin LE MORVAN

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All your bases BELONG to us

Unity3D | C# | iTween

Our students' association made another game jam in october 2015. The theme of this one was "All your base are belong to us". More information about this theme can be found here :
Wikiepida // All your base are belong to us

This game can be played in multiplayer or alone. "AYBBTU" is an asymmetric game where one player doesn't play like the second. The first is an entity that must plug his friend on the terminal to hack the network.
The second is evolving on the network and must reach the node to unlock the gate to the next level.

Here is the command :
For the physical player :
- Z, Q, S, D to move
- Space to launch your AI friend on the network or to get him out

For the AI player :
- Arrow keys to translate yourself on the network

Programming : Maxime de VECCHI
Music : Milan "Edrevan" IRIGOYEN
Graphism : Romain "Droum" THIBAUD

Game Design :
- Maxime de VECCHI
- Romain "Droum" THIBAUD

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WestWorld

Unity3D | C# | Complete Mobile Game | Behaviour Interactive

Linked to the HBO famous series, the video game Westworld has been developed by Behaviour Interactive and supervised by Warner Bros.

Due to my current contract, I can not enter into the detail about what I have done for this game.

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SoSSick

Unity3D | C# | Multiplayer | Global Game Jam 2018

The theme of the global game jam 2018 was "Transmission". From this world, our group of 8 people worked on a local multiplayer game where the goal is to infect the other players..

The game is an arena, where the stage impacts the movements of the players and the infection is the goal of the round. In its first version, the game is only for 4 players with XBox controller.

Architecture: To coordinate the dev' team for the jam, I created a complete abstract architecture to support different levels, sickness, player movements.

Game play: I created the goal system, the transmission of the first illness, and the logic for the actions the players can do (when there are Healthy or not). The cinematic at the beginning of the fight is generated randombly based on the position of the sick character.

Graphics: Our technical artist needed a shader with occlusion and different channel to manipulate the sickness of the player. I created it. Although not visible in the video, there is a moving conveyor belt in the game and the animation is based on a shader, I wrote.

UI: With one of our graphic member, I created the different interfaces of the game (main menu, in game score and final score board). I created several scripts in order to render the transition smooth and give the time for the user to read everyhting appearing on the screen.

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Water Rush

Unity3D | C# | Artificial Intelligence

During a single day, Spooklight Studio has a challenge to realize a little game in AR if possible. In Water Rush, the player interacts with the environment to help the cowboys to reach the exit with their bucket of water. This game is highly inspired with the Lemmings.

Agents logic: Due to the few hours we had, each person of the studio has a specific job to do on this project. I was in charge of the "intelligence", remember we talk about lemmings right?, of each agent and the logic to animate them and make it feels right and smooth.

Architecture: I oversee the logic for the respawn and the reset of different levels. I have taken the responsibility for the complete architecture and designed the logic for the platforms, management of agents and different modules to manage the game.

Controls: Use the arrows to rotate the camera and tap the platforms to interact with them.

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Mesh rendering on Unity3D

Unity3D | C# | Mesh rendering | Mesh deformation | Physics

To create more complex objects in 3D, I learned how to create and manipulate mesh, rendering and deformations. By creating my own meshes, I can use them as I want and create really complex object that I can fully control.

The first scene show how a mesh is created dots after dots, triangles after triangles, UV calculated then lighted.

The second scene creates show a scene where rounded cube are created from scratch and fall on the ground with physics.

The third scene displays three spheres you can deform by applying force with your mouse.

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Basics property on Unity3D

Unity3D | C# | Optimization | FPS | Physics | Spline

To acquire more knowledge about Unity3D, I created a little project to test the physics of the game engine and the frame capability of a computer.

The first scene is a simple test about the Time library of Unity. It's a clock (analog or not) based on the update logic.

The second scene creates a fractal based on chaos law. Probability of spawning, elements and colors.

The third scene create a colliding zone between neutron in center of the screen. All elements have physics, letting the user see its computer framerate.

The fourth scene create complex elements and throw them with physics on a sphere. The multiplicity allows the user to calculate its framerates on the physics engine on Unity.

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Hexmap tool generator

Unity3D | C# | Mesh creation | Shader | Procedural generation | Data managment

Hexmap tool generator is a tool designed to create 3D hexmap. The user have a flat surface in front of him and can add different features to the map before exporting it.

All elements linked to the map: ground, cliffs, rivers, water; are mesh generated from scratch. An algorithm calculates the position of each vertex and refreshes the corresponding mesh to display it.

Rivers and waters have their own shader to create a fluid movement and a fluid displacement.

All features (like urban, farm and plant) creation are based on procedural creation. Their rotation, numbers and type are selected by a parameter generation and a seed for each hexcell.

Incoming developments: Walls, towers, building, bridges, saving & loading feature.

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WaterTemple

Unity3D | C# | Hololens | C++

During a complete week, the studio has for challenge to realize a project on Hololens. In Water Temple, the player is prisoner of a strange temple under the water. It continuously go up and down. The player must care to not drowning. In the same time, he has to resolve puzzle in the environment, created by the room detection of the Hololens : hidden clues, random environment, etc.

During the week, I work on several aspects of the project. I lead a team of four developers at this time. My role was to manage the integrity of the project and develop all the interactions based on the Hololens and the player.

Core: All elements are generated randomly by the room detection. I was in charge of the appearance of the puzzle module, environment sets. I worked with a colleague on the understanding of the Hololens SDK to use its logic to detect plane, surface and dot.

Gameplay: Due to my position, I created a simple pipeline to integrate rapidly and easily the assets for the project. With the assets, I created several puzzle module for the player in coordination with our game designer. Interaction, logic of resolution, animation of the elements. Each module were independent and can be added to make the game harder or not.

UI: In AR and VR, you can't really talk about UI. It's more about User Experience. I worked on the interaction between the player hands and sight to create interaction and play sounds, trigger resolution and end the game when he finishes it.

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Nested Prefab Plugin for Unity

C# | Tooling | Unity3D

Unity has a concept to manage a "template of object", it is called "Prefab". In Unity, there is a problem: when a prefab is contained inside a prefab, the engine does not manage it very well and end by losing data or scenes.

The Nested Prefab plugin offers a full solution to compile and uncompile prefabs contained in another one. It allows the user to save its project automatically and manage the integrity of its prefabs. The plugin also handles cascade behaviour to manage a recursive prefabs container.

The project is available on the Unity asset store.

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SpriteMaker

C++ | SFML | Image

"SpriteMaker" is a tool which takes an image, then extract its sprite and the black & white mask. The user enters the colors he wants to be transparent (with red, green and blue values) then the tool creates the corresponding sprite and write the perfect box for the hit box.

The code of "SpriteMaker" is available on GitHub.

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VB.net tool kit

VB.net | VBscript 2006 | UML | meta-model

During one year, I have developed an API linked to a UML modelling software. This tool helps the actual users to work more efficiently.

The API is written in VB.net and is using an acknowledgment system with the modelling software to avoid any errors or mistakes during the execution. Each object is created according to the UML norm.

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Environment Simulator

Qt | QML | TCP/IP | UML

During the second year, I developed an environment simulator with Qt and QML. The objective was to discuss with another application and to send/receive data from it. The environment simulator uses the TCP/IP protocol and propose interactive QML file to simplify the discussion between the man and the machine.

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Model Based Design - Quality process

Quality process | VBA | ISO | UML | Model Review | Indicators

My last year has been dedicated to the writing of our project process. By project process, I mean all files and softwares that will be delivered to the provider.

In the same time, I also developed robustness and quality indicators on the UML model. These indicators are alimented by a Model checker which returned all errors detected during the modelling.

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Multi-agents system based on wave logic

C++ | SFML | Multi-Agent Systems | Artificial Intelligence

The goal of this research was to discover if a multi-agents system could be used in a wave logic instead of the classical force system. In order to test the efficiency of this approach, we had a classical pendulum issue to overcome.

We were a group of three to work on this project.
One of my co-worker has been: Milan "Edrevan" IRIGOYEN.
The second doesn't want to be named.

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Connect a Bluetooth stethoscope to a healthcare application

C++ | JAVA

E-Care is an Android application which helped the medical staff to keep an eye on their patient and regroup a lot of data on these people to use the most adapted treatment. In order to add the heart beat to this application, a Bluetooth stethoscope had to be paired to the application and the sound recorded, then exported to E-Care.

Project developped with: Victor KIMMERLIN

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AR application to detect the view line between objects

Unity3D | C# | Vuforia

This application is designed for the Wargames player. It detects little characters present on a table, then draw a line of view between them. If any object intersects with the line of view, she becomes red and the two characters can't see each other.

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Lost Bob

Unity3D | Ad implementation

Lost Bob is an attempt to develop video games on android and IOS. Unfortunately, I don't have an IOS device. So I decided to not upload the IOS version because I'm not sure the version doesn't have any bug. Lost Bob is a vertical side scrolling game where you must earn the most points to beat the high score. I've not designed the graphics assets.

Commands :
Android : By touching the screen.

Computer : Use the mouse and the arrow keys.
(English keyboard is also implemented with A and D to move).

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WackerTube

Android | Webservices

This android application was a project in my last student year. With a colleague, we had to develop a complete android application using web services. We have chosen an alarm clock. The sound played by this alarm is unusual because it's the user’s friends who select the sound that we'll be playing.

Due to the obligation of having a web server, this application is no longer maintained.

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French checking for a RPG scenario

French checking | French adaptation

This RPG scenario occurs in the Warhammer universe. I corrected and helped to adapt the French to post it on a website. This scenario is an investigation quest based on the Boyle sequence in the game "Dishonored".

Scenario written by: Benoit BEROULE
Corrected by: Maxime de VECCHI

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French checking for a RPG campaign

French checking | French adaptation

This RPG campaign occurs in the Warhammer universe. I corrected and helped to adapt the French to post it on a website. This campaign is highly oriented improvisation.

Scenario written by: Benoit BEROULE
Corrected by: Maxime de VECCHI

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French checking for a RPG scenario

French checking | French adaptation

This RPG scenario occurs in the Stargate universe. I corrected and helped to adapt the French to post it on a website.

Scenario written by: Benoit BEROULE
Corrected by: Maxime de VECCHI

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