Henrique Alves

Henrique Lacreta Alves

Education

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, with focus on Software Engineering.
Member of Gamux (Game Development students group) since 2012, Project Director in 2017 and 2018.

Sandwich gratudation in Computer Science.
Focus on Emergent Computing and Computer Graphics, extracurricular topics on Dramaturgy History and Scenography.

Worked on the development of FTW, a Multiplayer FPS Mobile game (Unity game engine).
Worked on several improvements on Character-Camera-Control and new gameplay features such as game-changing Ultimate abilities.
Refactored the game FTUE flow, improving maintainability and doubling D3 retention.
Improved the multiplayer experience of the game and fixed network-related problems.

Working on open-source educational material for Game Development in Godot.
Created polished prototypes in different game genres to show the game engine capabilities.
Lead the development of a multiplayer Godot demo on a new Live Service platform (TBA).

Idea owner of a startup to solve how complex payment rails are to integrate in games, via a peer-to-peer and easy-to-integrate crypto payment rail.
Developed the first backend prototype and successfully integrated it in one of my existing web games.
Responsible for the adoption plan of the service on a well-known indie web Game Engine.

Worked in Sky Warriors (Unity game engine), a mobile sky combat game, from prototype to Global Launch. Worked on all systems and metagame.
Worked in the Prototypes Team (Unity game engine). Helped developing and finding the fun in 3 unnanounced games, in small and fast-paced teams.
Worked in Tennis Clash (Unity game engine) on the UI and Gameplay teams. Fixed networking problems, worked with artists to develop a good workflow integrating skin assets in the game client.
Worked in Zooba (Unity game engine) on the UI team. Refactored the Onboarding system for new players and worked closely to artists to deliver content-heavy screens.

Worked with Godot Game Engine creating casual mobile games.
Worked on creating the company's own toolset using Godot to create and iterate games faster.
Contributed to Godot Engine's C++ codebase and worked alongside Godot core contributors.

Developed Web educational games targeting schools in underserved regions in Brazil.
Developed lightweight web games using PhaserJS, and ported them to mobile using Cordova.

illusion-fisherman.itch.io. My indie brand where I publish my own games.
enginesdatabase.com. A crowd-sourced Game Engines website I built solo to help other game developers.