Claudio Scolastici Email & Phone Number

Rome, Latium, Italy

Brussels Area, Belgium

I examine projects of videogames that apply for getting funded by the Eurpean Commission, to assess the quality and feasibility of those project and identify the best ones, to be actually funded.

I teach game design from a psychological and cognitive science perspective, with in-depth analysis of topics including game theory, affordances, uncertainty and randomness, player psychology, KPIs, UX and UI design, plus standard technical aspects like level design and difficulty curves, character and enemy design, genre distinctiveness, camera and.

Padova Area, Italy

I worked on a project called Alaloth, an RPG with mild "souls-like" contaminations made with Unity. I took care of writing and implementing quests, I created and implemented the game items (weapons, armors, special items), I did contribute to the development of combat and AI.

Benevento Area, Italy

I worked as a game designer and took care of prototyping mechanics and fine-tuning all sorts of parameters.I also dealt with monetization, analysis of business models, and how to make money out of F2P games. I coordinated the actual development process, according to budget and deadlines.I also did the required paperwork.

I published my second manual for Packt: this time I deal with Unity and the creation of 2D games. The book is titled "Unity 2D GameDev Cookbook" and you can have a taste of it at:http://www.docstoc.com/docs/173498101/Unity-2D-Game-Development-Cookbook---Sample-Chapter

I released two tutorials for Digital Tutors about UDK.The first one is about enemy AI modeling, using Kismet, the built-in visual scripting tool of UDK.The second tutorial is about Crowd Systems. Crowd Systems are a kind of "neglected topic": as I had a hard time finding resources to make the most out of Crowds in UDK, I decided to share what I learned.

Rome

no.one indie team is a group of talented Italians who develop videogames with UDK. I am the Game Designer of the team and the Artificial Intelligence expert.

I did both game developing and game design consulting: as a lead designer I developed design documents about game mechanics, level design, scripting and prototypes for the projects developed by Palzoun, and I provided gameplay and game mechanics analysis on design documents made by others, who aks to Palzoun for production.

My job was to control the quality of translated text from English to Italian and interact with the technical and developmental divisions to provide excellent translation of in-game text, game manuals, and website content.I worked on titles such "Ty the Tasmaninan Tiger" (PS2,XBox,NGC), Lego Racer (PC), Lego Harry Potter (PC & Gameboy Advance), 007.

Master'S, Video Game Design

The course covered the principal aspects of video game development, such as market and target analysis, characteristics and constraints of.

Bachelor'S, Psychology

I studied human cognitive processes like Memory, Attention, Learning and Reasoning. I learned the methodology of experimental research, as.