Danny Vargas Email & Phone Number

Burbank, California, US

Utilizing proprietary software, Unreal 4, and mixed reality technology to create immersive backdrops for use in film and the entertainment industries, my job here is multilateral. I'm involved in every aspect of the Unreal 4 Engine and I have yet to find a wall that I couldn't climb.Some things I've completed and pushed out whether it was for film.

US

• I worked on Dungeon Defenders II, a free to play multiplayer Unreal 3 Engine game, which is now available on Xbox One, PS4, and PC. The project was primarily in UnrealScript and C++ with a focus on a seamless.
• Implemented player interactions: Skills, abilities, and character movement.
• Implemented Enemy AI: Ground, flying, and boss characters with their own skills and behaviors
• Implemented Tower Mechanics: Build placement, targeting AI, and bullet mechanics
• Initial console porting: Controller support for both the game and UI
• Implemented Intractable Objects: An open library package that featured UI and KISMET elements that were used by level designers throughout the game.

San Bernardino, CA, US

• Founded and lead this student game project under a National Science Foundation grant. Office Tactics was a turn based strategy game built in the Unreal 3 Engine.
• Designed the game from the ground up, including gameplay, art, and story design.
• Responsible for the programming of most of the games features including: gameplay mechanics, camera movement, character movement, path finding, and User Interfaces using ScaleForm and ActionScript.
• Led a relatively small base team of four students (3 programmers and 1 artist) to develop the game, achieving the goal of a playable alpha build after 9 months of hard work.
• Led and helped teach a college class of 30 Expert Systems students with an assistant. The class was tasked to create very basic AI for the various units that comprise the game using a baseline AI to extend from.
• Agile work environment with full design documentation

San Bernardino, CA, US

• A video game project under a National Science Foundation grant. Mythic was a third-person action role-playing game built in the Unreal 3 Engine.
• Chiefly responsible for the combat, inventory, and save systems.
• Managed a team of 17 people at its peak, all of them students of neighboring colleges and high schools in the surrounding area of San Bernardino.
• Rigged and animated a full body humanoid using Maya. Imported and implemented into UDK’s animation tree structures.
• Agile work environment with full design documentationThe project ended without release and remained as an internal alpha build. The project's large scope a change student graduations were the main reasons why it never.