About Me

Hi! I am Andrea Pullia, a Computer Science student that is following the videogame path at the University of Milan.

At the second year of high school I joined an extra course organized by the school. This course was about Game Maker and from there I fell in love with game development. At the same time I was learning the C++ basics at school, and the next year I further explored the language completely alone, to go further the basics. Gradually, I began studying various books about game development and then I learned to use various Game Engine and graphics libraries. Especially in this period I followed an Unreal Engine 4 course by GameDev.tv (now it is available at the fifth version of the engine) and I fell in love with this game engine.

Recenlty I took part at the New Game Designer developing a tower defense game called Battle For Arcanium as the team lead.

Currently, I am developing an educational project to explain the gimbal lock problem when using Euler’s angles.

Also, I am designing a metroid-vania (in a preliminary phase) using Unreal Engine 5 and Paper2D.

My favourite videogame genre are the souls-like: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice bewitched me for his innoviative combat system and Elden ring for his open world of high quality (especially on the Limgrave area).

There are lots of metroid-vania games like Hollow Knight and Ori and the Blind Forest that stealed my heart, such that they inspired me to create my own metroid-vania.

I am also a big fan of cooperative game with titles that goes from It Takes Two to Overcooked.

Usually, I stay away from turn-based games, but the recent Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 caught my attention… and I am still playing it to get all the achievements!

Last but not least, I played a lot of less known titles such Lost In Random, Hue and Last Day of June.

This long list of games is just to makes you understand how much I care about informing myself and deepen my videogame knowledge in every single aspect. I always want to understand the underlying logic and design choices to make them mine.

I hope that this description can give you a solid idea of who I am and managed to get a smile out of whoever is reading this description.

Andrea

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