Richard Konecny

As a senior gameplay programmer at Splash Damage, I was leading a gameplay team of 5 people, while working on various features for Wardogs. My responsibilities included milestone work planning for the team, mentoring team members, team technical leadership, line management, and code & feature quality reviews.

My work received a special recognition and an award from the CEO at the end of a major milestone in August'24.

• Language: C++
• Engine: Unreal Engine 5
• Years: 2024 - 2025

As a programmer at Team17, I worked on a casual golf game called Golf With Your Friends.

I wrote the UI and gameplay code for a new feature - teams mode. It allowed players to team up and play with various scoring models against other teams. This was released as a free DLC in December'23 (Teams Mode).

• Language: C#
• Engine: Unity
• Year: 2023

As a programmer at Team17, I worked on a first-person horror adventure called Killer Frequency. I was a part of the development team from the beginning to the end. I took ownership of the interaction system, which was seen as "a massive contribution to the playability of the game. This contribution saw the interaction systems for both VR and flatscreen make more sense and made the game more playable" (citing from my performance review in 2023). I also worked on occlusion optimisations, VR camera playablity, interactable items, player controller and many other gameplay features. The game is released on all major platforms as well as on Oculus VR.

• Language: C#
• Engine: Unity
• Years: 2020 - 2023

As a gameplay programmer at Cloud Imperium Games, I worked on an MMO space simulator called Star Citizen, as well as its single-player version: Squadron 42. I worked on several gameplay features, including combat take-downs, AI behaviors, wildlines, idle system, fidgets and usables. My responsibility included the maintenance and optimisation of the usable component code. As a part of the social AI team, I worked closely with AI programmers and designers to create new features and deliver realistic AI scenes for Squadron 42.

• Language: C++
• Engine: Lumberyard
• Years: 2017 - 2020

This game was developed as a part of my master's thesis project at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in collaboration with The Institute of Digital Games at University of Malta. The game introduces a dynamic 7-dimensional skill-capturing game player model and accompanying novel real-time assessable metrics validated by adaptive AI agents as well as human players. The model’s dimensions quantify player’s: cognitive skills – distance estimate, muscle memory, reaction time, space control and timing precision; and playing style – aggressiveness and decision making.

• Language: C#
• Engine: Unity
• Year: 2016

This project was developed as a part of my bachelor's thesis project at Coventry University in the UK . A new shape grammar for procedural modelling of Roman column shafts and bases has been developed. It allows the user to adjust a wide range of parameters in real-time. The application supports dynamic field of view: The number of polygons changes in real-time based on the current camera's distance, without any noticeable difference in the visual output. This work's paper, Procedural Modeling in Archaeology: Approximating Ionic Style Columns for Games, was published at VS-GAMES Conference 2016.

• Language: C#
• Engine: Unity
• Year: 2014

Here are some of the games I developed for ZING Performance; a company that offers brain-development courses through their cross-platform app. There is a gaming sub-section in this app, for which I used to develop logical and puzzle games. Based on the given game design documents and art work, I developed the game mechanics, usually with some sort of a scoring system, as well as a level editor.

• Language: C#
• Engine: Unity
• Years: 2014 - 2016

This is an ongoing project I keep working on every now and then in my spare time. The art work is outsourced, everything else has been developed from scratch. This casual mobile multiplayer game runs on multiple devices connected to each other in a local network. The video shows the very first prototype. The work done so far includes a networking framework based on Unity networking LLAPI, a pallette-swapping shader or a custom debugger. The game structure supports fast development of multiplayer games on a single device, simulating multiple players and allowing for instant switching between them.

• Language: C#
• Engine: Unity