XDefiant
XDefiant is a free-to-play, fast-paced arena shooter that combines intense gunplay with personalized loadouts and specialized factions, as teams of gunfighters – called Defiants – battle for domination.
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Summary
During my 6 months internship at Ubisoft Annecy, I implemented features in Ubisoft's Snowdrop engine.
I was responsible for:
- Client-side prediction, server rollback, server reconciliation, for sticky C4, taking into accounts server costs.
- Suggesting and implementing interactions between sticky C4 and ultimates.
- Creating data-driven tools for technical game designers.
- Bug fixing on AI Behavior Trees, the score system, the damage system, game modes, gadgets and ultimates.
- Working with a 10 year-old codebase: avoiding regressions, matching existing code style and working with existing systems.
- Use Jira for bug reports and Perforce for versioning
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Post-mortem
I am really glad I got to work on a Ubisoft project as my first professional experience in the game industry. It allowed me to discover AAA processes that foster some of the great games that Ubisoft is making.
I am thankful I met and worked with extremely talented individuals.
This project gave me some really valuable gameplay programming experience that I can now reuse to prototype features and to communicate clearly with programmers.
Let's create great games together!
I can help you build amazing game design, user experience and prototypes for your game, or review the current state of your game project.
Work with me!
