A punishing platformer about climbing a mountain as a robotic goat with two grappling hook arms. A GMTK Game Jam 2024 Submission.
Worked on game design and programming in a team of 4.

Goating Over It

I designed the refreshed player-facing touchscreen user interface of the ValoClimb.
Our main goals were to make navigation more intuitive, make games and levels easier to recognize, and bring the visual design up-to-date with the rest of our products. We had limited time to work on the update, so I often had to find creative ways of repurposing and reskinning existing controls and flows to avoid requiring a complete rewrite. I needed to extend the Valo Motion design system with platform-specific elements.

ValoClimb UX Rework

Experience the ultimate fusion of pinball, air hockey, and climbing with Climball Legends. Challenge your friend to an epic two-player showdown to become a legend.
Worked on game design and programming in collaboration with an artist at Valo Motion.

Climball Legends

An electrifying exergame for the ValoClimb that combines bouldering with puzzle-solving and cooperation. Up to 4 players complete electrical circuits, earning points by holding difficult poses.
Worked on game design, programming in collaboration with an artist at Valo Motion.

Short Circuit

This portfolio website. Built from scratch with Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS.

Portfolio

Beat root vegetables as a beetroot in a beat-focused beat 'em up game. A Global Game Jam 2023 Submission.
Worked on game design and programming in a team of 3.

BEATROOT

A rhythm-action game where you defeat enemies to the beat of the music.
Bit1 Competition finalist. Created as part of the Game Project I course at Aalto University.
Worked on game design, programming, and producing, leading a team of 6 students.

Discordant

A digital adaptation of Hanabi, the cooperative hidden card game.
Originally planned to feature online multiplayer, but abandoned because single-machine multiplayer development was not mature enough at the time.

Hanabi

A tower defense where you spawn structures by throwing dice to combat the onslaught of evil tiny dice. A GMTK Game Jam 2022 Submission.
Worked on game design and programming in a team of 3.

Dice Wars

A DJ library manager program. Fetches your Spotify playlists, downloads the songs from YouTube, converts them to .mp3 files, and assigns correct media tags, including the cover image.
Long-term aspirarions included attribute-based library management, tighter Rekordbox integration, and setlist generation.
Built with React, Electron, and Chackra UI.

Tunesort

A C++ library for implementing automated shader optimizations and an application for benchmarking their effects, including performance and visual similarity.
Created for my bachelor’s thesis.

Spirmark / Spirver

A virtual tabletop map editor supporting videos and 3D assets.
Worked on design, gameplay, UI, and publishing on Steam. As a generalist in a small team, I designed and developed core parts of the application.

Dynamic Dungeons

An action-packed racing game where players drift through scripted events choreographed to music.
Worked on design and programming in a team of 3.

Powerslide

A mobile adaptation of the beloved WWII hidden role board game. My aims were to preserve the tense human factor of face-to-face play and to support playing without an internet connection.
Built with Flutter and Dart.

Secret Identity

A cross-reality local co-op puzzle game. Help a friend escape a dungeon in virtual reality by translating ancient markings, solving puzzles, and communicating clearly efficiently under pressure.
Worked on game design, programming, and publishing, in collaboration with an artist.

VR Dungeon

An assymmetric, single-device multiplayer mobile game about an alien invasion. The defender experiences the excitement of bullet hell games, while the invader strategically composes the alien force using unique units.

Invasion

Hi! I'm Zsombor, a game developer from Hungary living in Helsinki, Finland.
My core strengths lie in C#, Unity, game design, and computer graphics. I am a quick learner with plenty of motivation to work and improve autonomously. I am interested in many different artistic disciplines, such as music, filmmaking, and video editing.
I currently work as a game developer at Valo Motion.

Zsombor Szabó

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