Manel Hidalgo Agraz's' Portfolio - Senior Gameplay Programmer

Experience

2024 - 2025
Senior Gameplay Developer @ Synergy Games
ES - Remote
Summary:
Developing gameplay multiplayer features in Unreal Engine 5
Responsibilities:
Prototyped and developed level scripted actors
Implemented GAS based abilities for the player
Designed and implemented an Input Queue system for ability caching
Developed a Seasonal Event manager that can be managed from our backend
Helped the team to upgrade the Unreal Engine version of the project
Integrated bugsplat to improve the bugfixing catching process
Deployed game builds over docker
Achievements:
Launching Realms of Aluria
- Unreal Engine 5
- C++
- Docker
2019 - 2024
Gameplay Programmer @ Novarama Technology
Barcelona, Spain - Remote | Onsite
Summary:
Worked in several projects with Unreal Engine 4 and 5
Responsibilities:
Designed game systems such as achievements, quests and ingame events
Refactorized codebase to add new modules and systems
Rebuilded the entire UI
Prototyped a new game
Upgraded an external project from Unreal 4 to Unreal 5
Integrated EOS framework
Implemented tests for United 1944 backend
Achievements:
Lanunched Killsquad on PC and Steam.
Ported Samurai Jack to Apple Arcade (with Unreal 4)
Launched United 1944
Prototyped an interal project
Codeveloped features for 2 external projects
- Unreal Engine 5
- Unreal Engine 4
- C++
- Playstation 4
- Steam
- Docker
2018 - 2019
Programmer @ UPF Videogame Creation Master
Barcelona, Spain - Onsite
Summary:
Built a custom engine from scratch and a game on top of it
Responsibilities:
Designed and implemented game systems such as weapons, level ingame events or UI
Refactorized codebase to add new modules and systems
Programmed UI and tools to make easier the placement of widgets
Designed and implemented Dooshan melee enemy (AI, shaders...)
Scripted Dooshan game events
Achievements:
Learned and implemented a full fledged custom Game Engine from scratch
Learned all the phases of game development
Finished a game on top of the custom engine
- C++
- Lua
- 3DS Max
2017 - 2018
Full Stack Developer @ Applus IDIADA
Tarragona, Spain - Onsite
Summary:
Developing insider apps for the company
Responsibilities:
Implement Git pipelines into projects
Improve the CI/CD worflow
Developed a Django app
Developed an Android app
Supervise and review code from a team of 4 coders on another location
Achievements:
Improve my code skills
Improve the workflow of the team
Develop to production two new apps
- Docker
- Node.js
- JavaScript
- Django
- Pyhton
- Android
2016 - 2016
QA Tester @ Digital Legends
Barcelona, Spain - Onsite
Summary:
Starting my game development career
Responsibilities:
Ran quality tests on every build
Reported bugs found
Helped devs to locate bugs more precisely
Achievements:
- Git
- Jira
- Apple