Victor Rivas

The Boltage Studio · indie studio, 8-10 people · Remote

• Lead all gameplay programming on Amper, featured in DeVuego. Replaced manual level setup with a data-driven content pipeline so designers can build without waiting on code.
• Gameplay and tooling lead on Noah and the Cosmic Cleanup, listed on Steam with a playable demo due in October 2026. Own the modular character framework the whole cast is built on, and test every build on handheld Linux hardware through SteamOS.
• Set up CI/CD on GitHub Actions, code review and two-week sprints for a distributed team, and scripted the build automation for PC and mobile.

Salascala / TheWiseDreams · Gran Canaria, hybrid

• Shipped GastroGranca, a hand-tracking VR cooking game for Meta Quest 3 commissioned by the Gran Canaria Tourism Board, delivered on schedule and covered in the regional press.
• Worked on three further VR client projects under NDA, one of them a motion-capture experience I built end to end.
• Held the target framerate on Quest standalone hardware by rebuilding the interaction systems around hand-tracking-native components and gating merges on frame-budget checks.
• Built the markerless mocap pipeline in C++ end to end, taking Quest 3 and webcam input through a custom Live Link source with GPU inference.
• Implemented client-server replication for character interaction, physics state and networked animation, and delivered Slate editor utilities that cut manual steps out of the animation and QA cycle.

Selene Games · Fatal: Unleashed Darkness · Remote

• Built a spline-based vehicle system with tunable acceleration, braking curves and drift physics, exposing the parameters so designers could tune the handling themselves.
• Fixed reproducible build-stability failures and removed level-streaming hitches through targeted profiling.

Team Panda · Azra

• Architected the controller input, combat and character systems for the Unreal Engine 5 build.
• The game reached the PlayStation Talents 2021 final and was nominated for Best Narrative.

Markerless motion capture. Runs pose inference on the GPU through NNE, decodes 133 keypoints into a 19-bone skeleton and streams it into Unreal over a custom Live Link source.

Editor plugin that audits a whole level in one pass: meshes, textures, materials, animations, audio, lighting and post-process. Memory estimation, shader instruction counts, frustum culling and JSON export.

Rule-driven Content Browser organizer. Type-based and name-grouping modes, Epic-recommended presets, batch operations and full undo.

Runtime vertex-colour painting for static and skeletal meshes, per-channel RGBA, configurable fade, GPU-batched updates and a Blueprint API.

Terrain-aware generator that line-traces the ground and spawns spline bridges, wall ladders or stepped ramps from the surface normals. Animation-ready, spawns at runtime.

Landscape tool for filling and painting grass layers across large terrains, with control over distribution, density and blending.

Real-Time VFX Technical Artist Course, Gran Canaria campus with SPEGC, 480 hours (ends October 2026)

Master in Digital Animation and VFX (UCM), Madrid

Advanced Course in Game Development with Unreal Engine 5 (2025)

Game Development with Unreal Engine (2023)

Advanced Vocational Degree, 3D Animation, Games and Interactive Environments