

Virtual Taekwondo
Virtual Taekwondo is an online 1v1 virtual reality (VR) game that mixes state-of-the-art motion capture technology with VR to deliver the real world Taekwondo sport experience.
Virtual Taekwondo © 2023 VirtualTKD
Project Overview
2020 - Ongoing ・ Team Size: 10+ ・ Unreal Engine 4.27 ・ Unity3D 2022.3 ・ Unity C# ・ Jira ・ Confluence ・ Bitbucket/Sourcetree ・ Scrum
Virtual Taekwondo (VTKD) is made in conjunction with the AXIS suit & World Taekwondo Federation in order to showcase the future of gaming.
It aims to provide a realistic one-on-one taekwondo sporting experience while also gamifying it to a degree that allows it to be an enjoyable game.
In today's world where COVID-19 is prevalent and contact might prove hazardous, VTKD allows for Taekwondo practitioners to fight at ease.
VTKD was featured in the Olympic Esports Week 2023.
UI/UX Programmer
Unreal Engine 4.27 ・ Unity3D 2022.3.4 ・ Unity C# ・ Microsoft Visual Studios 2022・ Jira ・ Confluence ・ Bitbucket/Sourcetree
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Feature owner for UI (Technical)
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Planning, technical design, documentation, implementation, iteration & bug-fixing
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Communicate with & work closely with designers & artists
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Integrating and implementing design and art to UI designer and artist vision
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Create & maintain technical documentation, asset list & other such documentation voluntarily
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Refactor, iterate & polish elements voluntarily
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Trigger UI updates when something happens on the server, or vice versa send updates to server
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Ensuring consistency between all user types, VR views, PC views
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Reading, displaying (or not) & disabling screens, UI elements & data based on user type and/or platform
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Constructing custom UI elements such as sliders, buttons & toggles
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Styling as befitting the game, often requiring multiple pieces for visual & animation
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Layout, animations, UI interactions, text localization
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Anticipate designers' needs & implement UI, expose variables to allow easy configuration without programmer input
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Implement data-driven UI system, allowing for easy linking of screen navigation by designers
UI/UX Designer
Draw.io ・ Figma ・ Adobe Photoshop
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Working closely with game designers to nail down what information is necessary
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Propose & design various UI, including animation, layout, contrast etc in Figma & Unity
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Ensure typography is consistent & readable but also has enough contrast to attract attention where it needs to
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Ensuring the necessary information was conveyed across in a clear manner
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Ensure legality of all used assets
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Provide constructive criticism and feedback of current UI
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Ensure consistency of screens across different game scenes, platforms, user types
Programmer
Unity3D 2020 ・ Microsoft Visual Studios 2019, 2022 ・ Jira ・ Confluence ・ Bitbucket/Sourcetree
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Participate in milestones, timeline & sprint planning, review & retrospective
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Assist team in timeline, task breakdown, assessment & management
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Review pull requests, conduct code reviews and maintain consistent coding standard across the project
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Mentor junior programmer/interns
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Suggest & create tools and workflow for artists, designers, engineers and QA
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Proposed & implemented technical design for product development
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E.g using Animator & Animator Override for UI transition for fancier animations & more control
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Setup Cinemachine packages and integrate into project for camera switching, different PoV cameras
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Implemented the system to switch between them
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Design and oversee overall architecture of the system

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