Julia Abud

TECHNICAL DESIGNER .
GAME PROGRAMMER .

I’m Julia, and I’m a video game programmer with a game designer spirit.

MSc in Computer Science, BA in Animation and Digital Arts specialized in Visualization and Entertainment Technologies (aka video game development).

10+ years of experience developing games for a variety of platforms, across a broad range of genres, ranging from mobile to AAA, in both leadership, and specialist roles. Highly collaborative specialist in Systems design and Programming, with a passion for creating great games.

I’m a Mexican based in London. Native Spanish speaker and fluent in English.

Skills

Gameplay Programming
Technical Design
Critical thinking
Systems design
Documentation / Technical writing

VR / AR / non-traditional inputs
ML / AI
Tools programming

Project Management
Education

General Knowledge:
- 3D Generalist, Animation, Shader programming, VFX, UI/UX

Tools / SW

C#
Lua
C++
Python
JavaScript
Blueprints / Visual scripting

Unity3D Engine
Unreal Engine 4 & 5
Proprietary Engines

GIT/P4
Confluence
Jira/Miro/Trello
Adobe suite

“The best solution to a problem is usually the easiest one.”

GLaDOS (Portal 2)

Featured Projects

Diablo 4

Electric Square / Blizzard Entertainment

PS5: Unannounced Title

PlayStation London Studio

AAA Online co-op combat game, set in a modern fantasy London!

Unreal Engine 4, blueprints, C++

Proprietary engine, C#

My involvement:

Designed, prototyped, implemented, and documented gameplay features and mechanics.
Took ownership and implementation of cues, modifiers, camera setup and abilities (spells/melee/hit reactions/traversal).
Responsible for creation and maintenance of systems for objectives, dialogue, mission giving, vendors, XP/power/character progression, as part of game loop prototyping.
Collaborated closely with other teams, such as Gameplay Programming, Gameplay Design, LiveOps, Technical Animation, VFX and UI/UX, working to empower them creatively with innovative, flexible technical solutions.
Mentored and trained less technical members of the team.

Virtual Reality: Búfalo Drummer

Become a Drum Player and with the rest of his BÚFALO® band play music and explore magical worlds with different music vibes!

HTC Vive, Unity3D

My involvement:

Programming using C#
Maintaining modular systems to use the same base in 4 different project iterations
Ideation and Design
Project Management of a small team

Augmented Reality: Hora de Aceitunas Búfalo

Olives are delicious and nutritious! So with the help of Erick, our AR host, learn to make the most amazing recipes using this yummy ingredient. (AR / Mixed Reality)

Mobile, Unity3D, Vuforia

My involvement:

Programming using C#
Maintaining modular systems to be able to add new recipes to the app with minimal asset creation
Use of Animation events, State Machines and Avatar Masking to manage the virtual host
Ideation and Design
Project Management of a small team