Xiangyu Ji | Game Designer & Developer

About Me

I am a game designer and developer with experience in gameplay systems design, rapid prototyping, and game architecture. I am good at translating player needs into well-structured game systems while balancing design goals with development feasibility. I also have strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working effectively in teams.

Design Strengths

Game design, Level design, NPC behaviour design, Combat system design, Game narrative design, Deep understanding of game mechanics.

Technical Strengths

Unity and Unreal development, C++/C# programming, Computer graphics, In-game AI, Computer network, Optimisation experience.

Education

University of Warwick — MSc Games Engineering

United Kingdom

Studied C++ Programming, Computer graphics, Advanced computer graphics, Games Engineering, Game design. Projects included a C++ survivor-like game, a C++ first-person shooter PVE 3D survival game, a ray tracer/path tracer with Open Image Denoise, a client-server chat system, a team-based sci-fi game development, and a real-time strategy/action 3D individual game.

Xi’an Jiaotong University — BSc Software Engineering

China

Studied advanced mathematics, probability theory, algorithms, software quality assurance, natural language processing, and machine learning. Built projects including keyword-based lyric generation and handwritten digit recognition.

Experience

Tencent TiMi Studio — Game System Design Intern

China

I participated in the design of Age of Empires Mobile. Designed and shipped the Hero Talent System, covering full-cycle feature development from concept to live release.

Selected Projects

Empire Twilight

A single-player strategy game combining multiple gameplay styles. Designed and developed independently and published on Steam. This game was developed by using Unity.

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Touch Heart

A 2D strategy puzzle game designed and developed as an independent project developed by using Unity.

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Jurassic Survivor

A 3D FPS survivor-like game developed by using C++.

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A 3D Medieval RTS / Action Game

Designed and developed a 3D medieval-style game combining RTS and action elements, including the game loop, NPC behaviour, combat system, and player controls.

A Sci-Fi Combat Game

Worked in a 43-person team and contributed to tank campaign level content, enemy module design and implementation, behaviour trees, finite state machines, pathfinding, and GitHub version control.

C++ Ray Tracing Renderer

Implemented a ray tracer and path tracer in C++, including rendering materials and AI denoising with Open Image Denoise.

A Network Group Chat System

Developed a client-server Internet chat application with UI and notification sounds, then integrated the GROQ AI API to support AI group chat assistant features.

Designing and developing gameplay systems that bring games to life.