Hi! I'm Shihan
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About Me Get to Know me.
I'm creative Game Designer based in London , UK
As a game designer with an intense drive for innovation and two years of experience in design and development, I am committed to elevating games as a higher form of art.
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My Skills
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Gameplay Design

My key skills include divergent thinking, a strong intuition for crafting expectation-defying surprises, and experience with rapid prototyping and iterative design principles.

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Unity Programming

As a designer skilled in programming, I've coded my own concepts and collaborated with programmers, enabling effective communication and independent development of small projects.

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Meticulousness

I have strong learning abilities, a deep sense of responsibility, and self-driven problem-solving skills. I refine every project detail to achieve perfection.

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Unity & C#
Advanced
UE5 & Blueprints
Intermediate
Maya/Blender
Proficient
GDD/FDD/Figma/Excel
Advanced
Github/Perforce/PlasticSCM
Advanced
Jira/Trello/Slack/Teams
Advanced
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My Projects Some Of My Works
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Gaze Slicer

A mobile game for ADHD treatment using eye-tracking. Players control a blade with their eyes to slice fruits, dodge trash, and defeat bosses.
Team size: 1
Engine: Unity
What I worked on:
◆ Independently designed the game's mechanics, levels, events, and enemies.
◆ Solely developed the entire game, including building and releasing the Android version.
◆ Ensured compatibility with other company products, collaborating with developers to integrate them into a multi-game app.

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Rare Pets

A cute, easy-to-play F2P mobile game where players collect pets and build their own cozy coffee house.
Team size: 10
What I worked on:
◆ Designed various GUI effects for level-ups and created rapid prototypes.
◆ Developed three new coffee shop scenes, shifting the game view from horizontal to vertical.
◆ Crafted the interaction logic and visual effects for the badge achievement page, along with writing the FDD.

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AI metahuman

A groundbreaking experience bringing renowned scholar al-Khwārizmī, known as "the father of algebra", back to life for a live conversation.Built from cutting edge technology including metahumans, voice recognition & AI systems this will be a first ever opportunity to hold a conversation with a historical legend on a live stage.
Team size: 2
Engine: UE5
What I worked on:
◆ Led project development and engine operations, testing process feasibility.
◆ Implemented AI real-time feedback, voice generation, and lip sync for meta human animation.

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Pooppybara

A 2D pixel art platformer based on the GGJ2024 theme 'make me laugh.' Players control a capybara that uncontrollably farts.
Team size: 6 [48 hours]
Engine: Unity
What I worked on:
◆ Led a production team of 6 and handled project scope and quality decisions.
◆ Leading design decisions and designing game mechanics and systems.
◆ Maintaining design and technical documentation.

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Mission: Impossible

A VR 3D adventure game inspired by the animated series 'The Borrowers.' Players explore a bedroom as a 10cm tall character, 'borrowing' everyday items to survive.
Team size: 4
Engine: Unity
What I worked on:
◆ Designed and developed four key interactive mechanics.
◆ Created behavior state machines for three NPCs in the bedroom environment.

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Fantastic Hurst

An AR exploration app featuring impressive visual effects and interactions, encouraging players to discover forgotten campus spaces.
Team size: 3
Engine: Unity
What I worked on:
◆ Led the design and development of four themed interaction mechanics, each with unique effects.
◆ Contributed to the app's UI art and interaction logic design.

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Come come

A 3D rapid-prototype game with a single, evolving mechanic, inspired by quirky TikTok videos. It uses minimal art assets to create engaging gameplay from a simple concept.
Team size: Developed independently
Engine: Unity
What I worked on:
◆ Extracted engaging concepts from videos and transformed them into game mechanics.
◆ Designed multiple levels to maximize map utility and created a simple state-machine boss.

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Experinence My Recent work experience.
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2024-2025

Braingaze | Game Developer

Independently developed a mobile game for Braingaze using eye-tracking technology to aid mental health treatment. The project included eye tracking and calibration, 3D physics simulation, algorithm generation, special effects, model creation, cloud data sync, and multi-platform compatibility.

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2024

DRi | Game Designer

Worked on multiple project teams at DRi, including:
Prototyping an AI-driven 3D digital human with interactive dialogue in UE5; Creating special effects for a confidential LOL outsourcing project; Designing scenes and effects for the F2P mobile game Rare Pets.

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2024

CE Lab | VR Developer

In collaboration with the CE Lab at the University of Lisbon, I replicated a human-robot interaction experiment in VR, where I was responsible for the practical development of the entire project.
My role included scene setup, interactive feedback for VR devices, programming the experimental logic and data collection.

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2023-2024

KCL | VR Developer

Collaborated with a PhD student from King’s College London to develop several interactive tests in VR, where I was responsible for the entire project. The project involved various types of UI guidance, quantifying the percentage of a object surface observed by the human eye, and collecting various types of data.

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2023-2024

Goldsmiths | AR Developer

Developed an AR project for both Web and Android platforms for the Music Department at Goldsmiths,University of London, recreating the Royal Opera House from Victorian-era London over 100 years ago. The project allows players to explore the environment and interact with objects and NPCs in AR.

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2022-2023

NHS | VR Developer

Collaborated with Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to develop a VR simulation for training junior psychiatrists with a real-time dialogue virtual patient.
I handled the patient’s state machine, integrated motion and facial capture, set up HDRP lighting, and built the mobile control system.

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Contact Info
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Name

Shihan Liu

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Location

London, UK

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Whatsapp

+44 7579959417

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Email

dice0791@gmail.com