Shamit Ahmed

Game Programmer

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About

Hello and welcome 👋 I'm Shamit.
A multidisciplinary Programmer based in Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮 with 4 years of game industry experience.
I am currently studying for my MSc degree at Aalto University.
Major in Game Design and Development and minor in Virtual Reality.

Engaging video games, immersive-interactive multimedia and breathtaking art of various forms have always been my motivation to achieve more. I am currently focusing on Virtual Reality and Computer Vision based Locomotion and Interaction Design. I am also working on Exergames that require Physical Movement.

✦My fields of interest:
✦ Exergames ✦ Game Design and Balance ✦ Rapid Prototyping ✦ Improving Game Feel/UX ✦ Generative AI ✦ Indoor Navigation ✦ Geospatial Analysis ✦ Data Analytics ✦ AR ✦ VR ✦ Computer Vision ✦ Technical Art ✦ Web Development ✦ Micro-Controllers ✦ Performance Optimization ✦

🎓Education

2023 - Present
Aalto
Aalto University
Master of Science (MSc) in Computer, Communication and Information Sciences (CCIS)
Major in Game Design and Development
Minor in Virtual Reality

Awards: Finland Scholarship, Dean's Award

2015 - 2019
Ahsanullah
Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Science and Engineering
Grade: 3.05 / 4.00
2004 - 2014
Drme
Dhaka Residential Model College
Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC)
Grade: 5.00 / 5.00

Portfolio

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🎯Projects

  • All
  • 🎮Games
  • 🥽AR/VR
  • 💻Apps
  • 🎬Cinematics

Monster Cleaning Inc.

    Welcome to Monster Cleaning Inc., located in the heart of an RPG world! After nasty battles, these monsters need a good scrub. You need to use the right-sized sponge to clean it. Your cleaning skills will be judged by the monsters themselves, and their ratings will determine your success.

    Genre: Survival, Clicker
    Role: Programmer, Game Designer

    Rank: Style #54, Overall #358

    GMTK Game Jam 2024

    Web

    5 People

    2024

    Itch.io Youtube

Thoughts Out!

    Thoughts Out! is set in a dreamlike world where your everyday office troubles morph into an annoying dragon. This dragon can alter the surrounding environment, making your adventure either easier or more challenging. How can you drive it out of your daydream and reclaim your peace of mind?

    Genre: Puzzle, Platformer
    Role: Programmer, Level Designer

    Made with Unreal Engine 5.3

    Game Project 2 at Aalto

    PC

    9 People

    2024

    Itch.io Youtube

Galactic Gourmet

    Play as an intergalactic sous-chef on the lookout for exotic missing ingredients, as they embark on a culinary journey to Earth.

    Uniqueness:
    1. FPS Cooking Game
    2. Game Environment Generated using Geospatial 3D Data


    Genre: FPS, Retro
    Role: Programmer, Game Designer, Artist

    GN! Autumn 2023 Jam

    PC

    2 People

    2023

    Itch.io Youtube

Dime Shift

    Dime Shift is a perspective-shifting puzzle platformer. Play as a tiny 2D robot who tries to become sentient.

    Genre: Puzzle, Platformer
    Role: Programmer, Game Designer, Producer, Vision Holder

    Game Project 1 at Aalto

    PC

    6 People

    2023


    Itch.io Youtube

Spooky Land

Guarding a graveyard, you have to use your flashlight to keep ghosts at bay and survive the night!👻

Genre: Topdown, Survival
Role: Programmer, Level Designer, Environment Artist

Mobile

2 People

2021


GooglePlay Youtube

Idle Sea Cleaner

    A topdown 3D game where your primary objective is to clean the sea by collecting different types of trash. Unlock new items, explore new areas and upgrade your ship while at it!

    Genre: Idle Arcade
    Role: Programmer, Game Designer

    Mobile

    6 People

    2022


    GooglePlay

Diet Run

    Survival depends on carefully choosing between eating healthy and junk food since they both have their pros and cons.The main idea is to promote health consciousness and encourage users to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle in a fun way.

    Genre: Infinite Runner
    Role: Programmer, Artist

    Jam Entry

    Web

    2 People

    2021


    Itch.io Youtube

Mamapato

    You and a bunch of ducklings are chasing after the coolest duck around, the Queen of Ducks. Find your way through three stages that are packed with obstacles and points to score – but remember to move to the rhythm!

    Genre: Rhythm, Runner
    Role: Programmer

    Aalto Orientation Jam 2023

    Web

    7 People


    Itch.io

Rev-Recycle

    Cleaners have decided to protest against mass littering by littering. Hence their roles have reversed! Survive from the cops for as long as you can and reach higher scores by littering all around!

    Genre: Racing, Survival

    GMTK Game Jam 2023

    Web

    Solo

    2023


    Itch.io

Hold It In

    A fart-tastic game where you try to hold in your fart to avoid unimmaginable consequences. Making this game was technically challenging yet well-scoped considering it was developed in 48 hours.

    Genre: Casual
    Role: Programmer

    Global Game Jam 2024

    Web

    7 People


    Itch.io Youtube

Cat Root

    A cute side scrolling platformer where a farmer's cat has to find water sources to grow the vegetables.

    Genre: Platformer

    Global Game Jam 2023

    PC

    Solo


    Itch.io

Tower Hero Idle: Army Rush 3D

    Idle tower defense/clicker game with a diverse upgrade system, stunning visuals and solid gameloop.

    Genre: Idle Defense, Survival
    Role: Programmer, Designer

    Mobile

    6 People

    2022


    GooglePlay

Cubi

    Keep switching colors to match your enemies and survive as long as you can!

    Genre: Casual, Survival

    Mix and Game Jam 2020

    Mobile

    Web

    Solo

    2020


    Itch.io

Thorn

    Addictive clicker game where you tap to shoot targets while avoiding cheeky obstacles.

    Genre: Arcade

    Mobile

    Web

    Solo

    2019


    Itch.io

Short Circuit: 3D Runner

    A hypercasual prototype that I created in 4 days for a technical assignment as part of a recruitment process.

    Features:
    1. Spline-based Level Design,
    2. Smooth Player Controls
    3. Intelligent Enemy AI

    Genre: Runner

    Mobile

    Solo

    2022


    GooglePlay Github Youtube

Zombrain

    Zombies have stolen the brains of extraordinary scientists in pursuit to dominate the world. Retrieve their brains and save humanity!
    My 1st game made in unity that also won the 1st place in IUT ICT Fest 2016! Making a 2D platformer for the first time and winning a Competition as a cherry on top has kept me hooked into making games ever since!

    Genre: Action, Platformer

    First Unity Project

    PC

    Solo

    2016


    Youtube

Hambaaa Run

    Infinite runner where the primary objective is to catch the runaway cow while avoiding chaos in the streets! Another minigame turns the table and lets the player be in the cow's shoes!

    Genre: Runner

    Mobile

    Solo

    2021


    GooglePlay Youtube

Aquarium Island

    Aquatic Park management game that features relaxing fishing, progressive gameplay and seafoods! I was responsible for features such as: game design, player controls, fish movement, catching and storage, level up system, upgrade system and overall look and feel of the game.

    Genre: Hybrid-Casual, Idle Arcade

    Mobile

    3 People

    2022


    Youtube

Super Flappy Chicken Game

    2.5D Infinite Sidescroller game featuring unique customization, powerups and upgrades. Special Game Modes all around the year including spooky Halloween and snowy Winter!

    Mobile

    Solo

    2021


    GooglePlay

VR Beat Saber

    The game features satisfying cube cutting with lightsabers, controller haptics and many visual effects that facilitate immersion and improve user experience. Made with Unity using the Meta Quest 3 Headset.


    VR

    Solo

    2024


    Itch.io Youtube

VR Bowling Simulator

    VR Bowling Simulator game for improving your bowling skills! The game features avatar customization, multiple bowling lanes and bowling pin types. The design features multiple locomotion techniques including teleportation, snap turn and free movement. Made with Unity using the Meta Quest 3 Headset.


    VR

    Solo

    2024


    Itch.io Youtube

VR Sewer Escape

    VR Escape Room game. Features multiple interaction techniques including sockets, drawers, doors, switches, UI, grab interactables etc. Multiplayer mode coming soon!


    VR

    Solo

    2024


    Itch.io Youtube

AR Outdoor Navigation Assistant

    Outdoor navigation drone assistant using Cesium Geospatial Visualization tool in Unity as part of a course project. The application detects current device location and generates 3D realistic tiles to aid with visualization, navigation and additional information.

    AR

    Solo

    2023


    Youtube

AR Ugandan Musical Instruments🥁

    An augmented reality application designed to teach about native musical instruments from different regions of Uganda 🇺🇬. This technical demonstration was a component of an Aalto University MA in New Media student's master's thesis.

    Role: Thesis Collaborator, Programmer, Designer

    AR

    3 People

    2024


    Thesis Youtube

projectWHERE-Graffathon2024

    Entry for the Computer Graphics Hackathon, Graffathon 2024 at Aalto University. Features short narrative tied by audio-visual synchronization.
    🎖️6th Place in Beginners Category

    Used: Geospatial data for loading photorealistic 3D tilesets in Unity

    Demo

    Solo

    2024


    Youtube

Eid-ul-Fitr Cinematic

    A cozy cinematic I created alongside my spouse celebrating the festivities and wishing a happy Eid to everyone!
    Rendering Pipeline: Unity HDRP

    Cinematic

    2 People

    2022


    Youtube

Quarantined Morning Cinematic

    A short made during the COVID-19 pandemic showcasing a relaxed morning in a uncrowded city under lockdown.

    Cinematic

    Solo

    2020


    Youtube

Rides of Bangladesh: Rickshaw

    A short product packaging design that I loved rendering using Unity! Done by me: textures, lighting, audio, VFX, post-processing

    Cinematic

    Solo

    2023


    Youtube

DMRI Tract Segmentation Visualization

    In my BSc. thesis, I classified the brain tracts using supervised machine learning algorithms including NN, One Class SVM etc. This is the 3D Brain Visualization Tool that I created with help of 3D data.

    Application

    Research

    BSc. Thesis

    4 People

    2019


    Youtube

Daily Covid-19 Updater

    A COVID-19 app that uses API to fetch real-time global data and gives regular region specific updates.

    Role: Design, API integration, UI/UX

    Mobile Application

    2 People

    2020


    Youtube

Anao.com

    An undergraduate project that showcases an ecommerce site that enables customers to bring products from abroad through the help of travelers.

    Tools used: PHP, JS, MySQL

    Web Application

    3 People

    2018


    Github Youtube

Doctor Kothay

    A website facilitating medical support and information utilizing geolocation and google maps API.
    Users can 1. Search for doctors according to their department and location 2. Find nearby medicine shop, hospital and diagnostic center and 3. Place appointment to their doctor of preference.

    Tools used: ASP.net, MySQL

    Web Application

    3 People

    2017


    Github
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‍💻Work Experience

Aalto University

✦ Research Assistant (Jun 2024 - Present)

✦ Student Tutor (Mar 2024 - Present)
Aalto University

playense

Senior Game Developer (Sep 2022 - Jun 2023)
Playense

free pixel games

Game Developer (Sep 2019 - Aug 2022)
Free Pixel Games Ltd.

fiverr

Level 2 Graphic Designer, Cartoonist (Apr 2016 - Jan 2020)
Fiverr

aust IDC

Joint Secretary, Graphic Designer (Nov 2017 - Nov 2018)
AUST Innovation and Design Club (AUSTIDC)

🥇Awards

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Champion - Game Development - IUT ICT FEST 2016

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Champion - Software - Intra AUST Technomania 2018

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Champion - Game Development - National RoboTech Fest 2017

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1st Runner Up in Networking War - International Telco Warfare 2018

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Top 27 - Grameenphone Game Jam 2017

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Top 40 - NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018

🙋🏻‍♂️Volunteering

playense

Event Organizer and Community Manager of "Games Now!" by Aalto University

2023-2024

playense

Event Organizer, Segment Coordinator (Software Showcase), Graphic Designer of "MindSparks 19"

2019

playense

Instructor for "Workshop on Game Design & Development" hosted by AUST IDC

2024

playense

Instructor for "Workshop on Graphic Design (Illustrator and Photoshop)" hosted by AUST IDC

2019

playense

Panel Research Community Member of "Unity Pulse"

2021-Present

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📝Research & Publications

Rapid Game World Creation Leveraging Geospatial Data in Game Jams: The ’Galactic Gourmet’ Post-Mortem

ICGJ '24: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons and Game Creation Events, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2024.
DOI: doi.org/10.1145/3697789.3697804
Paper

Interactive Demo

Conference

2024

Balancing Clash Royale: Through Card vs Card Battle Simulations and Cost-Benefit Analysis

A Game Analysis project aimed at analyzing the game balance of popular Supercell game, Clash Royale.

This python project features data scraping, cleaning and processing, realistic card vs card battle simulation featuring various parameters, card cost-benefit calculation through analyzing their correlations etc.
Learnings: game analysis, balancing, design, data processing, python programming.

Game Analysis

2024

Gamecraft: A Workshop for Aspiring Developers by AUST IDC

Instructed a 2 hour online workshop for 100+ students discussing the complete workflow of a game's design, development and release.

Topics such as game industry and team diversities, tools, level designing, game programming, tips for beginners, game balancing and analysis, game research, testing and debugging, publishing, monetization, learning resources, higher education and career opportunities, etc were discussed.

Event

Workshop

2024

Board Game Design: Camp Sajek

Camp Sajek is a 2-4 player board game that takes players on a relaxing yet exhilarating expedition through the magical land of Sajek Valley in Bangladesh.

However, even an enjoyable task such as camping can call for different difficulties and therefore, the goal of the players is to maximize their happiness levels and to make everyone’s experience as relaxing as possible throughout the whole journey by tackling those difficulties working as a team while getting to know about Bangladesh and its local culture and cuisine.

Board Game Design

2023

Game Design Workshop at Aalto University

Week-long Workshop on Game Design as part of the Game Design course during the Master of Science degree in Game Design and Development at Aalto University.

Throughout the week, alongside the lectures we were assigned to design one board game each day which focused on unique set of design problems including going from point A to point B, Digital game to Tabletop, Cooperation etc.

Workshop

2023

Game Design: Tidal Quest

GDD for an isometric, action-exploration game where you dive deep on a quest of saving sea creatures, only to unravel deeper conspiracies.

Game Design

2024

Code: Data Persistence in Unity using Binary Serialization

Hands on tutorial for easy and secure data save/load in Unity by serializing or deserializing json data from string, file or stream. Securely store and fetch data in your next unity project. Binary serialization works on major platforms including PC, android, ios, webGL etc.

Technical

2022

BSc Thesis: Automatic Human Brain Segmentation using ML Techniques

Undergrad thesis where I classified brain tracts from whole brain data using different supervised machine learning algorithms such as KD Tree, NN & SVM.

Thesis

2019

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🎨Art & Design

2D Map of a Board Game made in Adobe illustrator
3D models made in Blender
2D Assets made in Adobe illustrator
2D Cards of a Board Game made in Adobe illustrator
2D Artwork for "My Friend Rashed"
Daily Sketches Inktober 2021
T-Shirt Design which has been worn by 1000+ students!

For more: Behance Portfolio

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💪Proficiency

Programming

C 90%
C# 90%
Blueprints 70%
C++ 70%
Python 85%
Java 70%
SQL80%
JS70%
PHP80%
HTML, CSS80%

Others

🎨Digital Art80%
🖨️3D Printing90%
🕹️Gaming90%
📷Photography80%
🚲Cycling95%
👟Running80%
🏓Table Tennis90%
🏐Volleyball65%
🏸Badminton80%
🏏Cricket70%

Languages

🇬🇧English IELTS Academic 7.5/9
🇫🇮Finnish Finnish 1 Course + Duolingo
🇧🇩Bangla Native Language
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🔧Tools

Unity

Unity

Primary game engine used to create over 50+ games and prototypes since 2016. So far I have developed for platforms such as: PC, Android, iOS, Web, Playable Ads and Meta Quest.

Unreal

Unreal Engine

Basic understanding of the UE editor and its visual scripting tool, blueprints. I have successfully implemented many game mechanics, backend and UI of our Game Project 2, "Thoughts Out" using Unreal 5.

Blender

Blender 3D

I love using blender for creating simple low-poly 3D game assets. I sometimes end up 3D printing them too!

Adobe

Adobe illustrator

I have been using illustrator since 2016 for creating 2D assets, textures, UI elements and promotional elements etc. It has also served as my primary tool during freelance logo design, banner design, 2D flat-illustration and cartoon character art.

Github

Github

Being able to preserve my projects in github repositories has been a blessing. I use Github Desktop and SourceTree for version control, cloud hosting and collaboration. Also familiar with git commands. Github: github.com/shamitahmed

Visual Studio

Visual Studio

Primary IDE for
programming in C#. I also use VS Code depending on the project.

Jupyter

Jupyter Notebook

IDE for programming in python. Depending on the project, I also use Google Colab.

Slack

Slack

I also use Skype, Discord, Teams, Zoom for Communication
depending on the project.

Jira

Jira

I also use Trello, Miro for Task Management
depending on the project.

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