Darren de Vré

public void AboutMe();

Who am I?

Hello! My name is Darren de Vré, I'm from the Netherlands and I enjoy playing games. More importantly however, I also really enjoy creating them. Ever since I was a little kid I wanted to be a professional game developer so after discovering that the Hogeschool van Amsterdam had a bachelor's in game development I instantly set my sights.

I'm currently a fourth year student learning all things game creation, both tech and design wise. I personally enjoy designing and implementing game mechanics the most.

As of now I've been project leader for some of my school projects and I currently am the technical director for a commercial Steam release.

Skills

Languages: C#, C++, Python, HLSL, Kotlin, Processing

Environments: Unity, Unreal, Blender, Jupyter

Project: Git, Management, Planning, Scrum, Kanban

Techniques OOP, Pointers, (Compute) Shaders, Unity Editor, Machine Learning

public void Projects();

Featured Project

Realtime volumetric clouds

A PoC product of my take on the R&D assignment during a semester at HvA. This is a prototype version of an implementation of volumetric clouds made in Unity. My final clouds are rendered volumetrically and can be generated in real-time using a worley noise compute shader. The clouds are then rendered in an unlit shader using multiple techniques.
- C#
- HLSL
- Unity
- (Compute) Shaders
- Procedural Generation
Featured Project

Barnatura

A colony survival game based on a hexagonal grid planet, where the player needs to build a thriving colony whilst managing resources and fighting off a blight that could destroy their colony.
- C#
- Unity

Other Projects

Roulette Rumble

Our submission for the GMTK 2022 game jam. Your goal is to survive for as long as possible on the spinning roulette table of death whilst a dice is thrown periodically to add random modifiers to the arena.

C#

Unity

Shaders
Hero's Crucible

Client project

A RTS meets battle royale game where players take control of greek armys and their gods to fight until only one remains.

C#

Unity

Networking

Shaders
Project Stonks

A serious game companion for a board game called "Money Maker". The goal of Project stonks is to digitize otherwise annoying physical aspects of the game and give a clearer tutorial on the game, letting the player play faster.

C#

Unity
SpeedGrapple

A mechanical prototype of a grappling hook-based speedrunning game. The player needs to traverse obstacle courses using movement mechanics such as bunnyhopping whilst avoiding obstacles.

C#

Unity
PuzzleSolver

Client project

A mobile app used for solving sudoku's provided by the user. The app can scan a sudoku and translate the scanned values into a digital sudoku, providing a possible solution to the user using an api.

Kotlin

Android Studio

OpenCV

Tensorflow

MLKit

CameraX

Databases

Hi there, I'm

Darren de Vré

Game Development student @ HvA //4th year

Working on Campaigner

public void AboutMe();

Who am I?

Skills

public void Projects();

Realtime volumetric clouds

Barnatura

Other Projects

Roulette Rumble

Hero's Crucible

Project Stonks

SpeedGrapple

PuzzleSolver

public void Contact();

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