WildRikku

Short bio: M. Sc. who has worked as developer, nurse & bike mechanic; is gamer, woodworker & cosplayer. Passionate about music. I like rhythm games and jRPGs. Currently playing: Metaphor: ReFantazio, Beat Saber, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.

I play on Steam Deck and PC, including an HTC Vive Pro. The most important thing in a game for me is immersion, be it because of good use of VR, because of great story telling and world building or because of well-made addictive gameplay. That's why I enjoy modern, huge open world games but have also played the original Crash Bandicoot trilogy at least five times.

I currently work on the upcoming Nion Forge where I implemented path finding algorithms and data structures and make the game playable with a gamepad. I also do a lot of playtesting. Previously I was part of two jam games: Labodytory, where I was the lead developer and one of three level designers, and Iron Warriors, where I was the lead developer.

For university, I built a highway scenario with Unity for my research job, simulating various car movements in traffic for driver research purposes. I used that to write my master's thesis, transfering the highway scenario into an urban scenario and porting it from Windows desktop to room-scale VR (SteamVR) to make it usable for pedestrian research. I got my Master's degree in 2024.

I like to write little tools and scripts to make processes more efficient. I have an eye for intuitive controls and UI. In the year between my studies, I worked full-time as a Junior Consultant, where building tools to help my colleagues work more efficient was my main task. This included leading responsibility for the build pipeline team.

-- Available for work --

The above projects are hobby projects. I'm looking for a job as a Unity developer, tool developer or build engineer. I learn fast and have many fields of interest. I can take responsibility for my work and for a team. I can structure code when starting from scratch and I can also work with existing code bases. I have proven all of those in full-time, part-time and voluntary / open source jobs.

My educational background includes psychology and research methods, computer science and computer graphics as well as maths, physics and electronics. My professional background includes freelance web development and two years at an IT consulting company, where I built automation tools for the development pipeline in a team that I established and led. I like efficient workflows and will probably write a script to automate something at some point in any job. I'm good at solving things with code.

I live in Germany (CET / UTC+1) but I'm okay with working remotely and in timezones UTC-7 to +3.

My only social network is Mastodon. If you think you would like to work with me, please reach out here on Itch, on Discord, GitHub or on Mastodon (same username everywhere). I will give you my mail address when we get in contact.