Martin EmperorKunDis Svanda | Software Developer / Game Developer

From Bricklaying to Game Design

In 2012 I returned from Prague to Cheb. After finishing my university studies I tried to to establish myself as a software developer in Prague. Unfortunately, I failed because my parents had no contacts in Prague and no financial background to help me settle down in the capital. Find a job in my field in Cheb turned out to be impossible. All my successful classmates worked for low wages at 02 or T-Mobile or manual labor in printing shops. The only way to get a little to make a better living was to work in Germany. In 2012, I started working for a German company. Despite my education (primary, secondary, high school and university) and studies English for a total of more than 13 years (including 2 years of IT English and 1.5 years of business English) I had to start at the lowest level. It took me almost 3 years to go from being a helper to to installing sockets.

Thanks to my logical thinking and experience with technical drawing, I quickly became familiar with technical documentation and assembly plans. After three years I became the leader of several small teams of electricians and we travelled all over Germany, building houses and installing office interiors. It was a good job with good pay and I was happy as a single man. Had it not been for the covid-19 pandemic, I would probably still be in that job today. But the covid-19 pandemic changed everything for me. It made traveling to the Montazes more difficult. At the same time, I found a wife, we started a family, and traveling for a weekly bazi or longer work montages was no longer an option for me. I had to find work close to the border. For six months I worked in a glass factory, sweeping floors. It was one of the worst period of my life. But then I finally decided to pursue my hobby of game development and programming to the fullest and I started to study very actively and look for ways to achieve my dream. Times have changed and today it is possible to find a good job in software development even in border regions, even in game development, which has always been my passion.

Unreal Engine - C++ and Blueprint projekts created by learning

MarbleMaze ForgeRun

Classically, the project goes astray, but I learned to use the mouse on the inclined angle platform and also set the position in which the ball will trigger the successful end.

PointEater

PointEater is my second game what I have been working on it just one day. But like a soulslike lover I was made it little bit tricky. Its not so hard to complete but with two secret gems complete it with 100% is hard. Here is video where my friend play it and he must replay it many times for "Platinum Trophy".

Crypt Rider

The Crypt Rider project from the GameDev.tv course is a project designed to teach game development using Unreal Engine 5. Created in collaboration with Epic Games, the course guides students through building a 3D adventure game. I was learned Blueprint scripting, C++ programming, character and level design, and AI development. The project emphasizes hands-on learning, allowing students to create and mod games, with extensive support and community engagement. Ideal for begin, it covers everything needed to start making AAA-quality games.

MyFirstFPSGame

I created TargetBlueprint targets and added physics and rotation to them after hitting them with a projectile (no gravity, otherwise I kept losing). I turned on target counting and added three different endings: on time for hitting the same target a second time and on victory. I created a basic HUD for playing and ending by elimination and another for losing or winning. I then added about 30 targets to the level prepared by Epic and tried to play. I added 10 units to the countdown on each successful hit (the start was 300, which is apparently tenths of a second). After about an hour of trying, I added one unit of time per hit until the final win (after about 2.5 hours). Finally, I added 13 units to the countdown on each hit. This entire "game" is made up of only free assets and blueprints I built, with not a single line of code.

Cheb Fiction

Based on BlueBoy Adventure by RyiSnow. Cheb Fiction is a modern-day urban RPG set in a sprawling city where high-tech luxury coexists with gritty criminal underworlds. Players explore diverse neighborhoods, such as elite skyscrapers, hacker hubs, industrial gang zones, and black market mazes, while embodying character archetypes like enforcers, drug manufacturers, and cyber criminals. The game features dynamic AI-driven missions, intricate gameplay mechanics, and a rich narrative filled with intrigue and suspense, allowing players to shape the city's future through their actions. Character Archetypes:

Paladin (Underworld Enforcer): Known as "The Judge" in the streets, they enforce the unwritten laws of the criminal world, resolving disputes with a mix of intimidation and wisdom. Necromancer (Clandestine Drug Manufacturer): Operating from hidden labs, they are chemists creating addictive substances, controlling a network of addicts and dealers. Druid (Illicit Botanist): Masters of urban gardening, they cultivate rare and illegal plants, supplying various gangs with natural substances. Hunter (Hitman/Tracker): Feared as "The Ghost," they are experts in tracking and silently eliminating targets in the urban jungle. Warrior (Gang Enforcer): Known as "The Brute," they rule the streets through sheer physical prowess, dominating their territory. Mage (Cyber Criminal): Operating from The Grid, they are digital wizards, hacking systems and trading sensitive information. Priest (Cult Leader): Charismatic leaders, they manipulate their followers, orchestrating criminal activities under the guise of religious fervor. Assassin (Silent Killer): Silent and deadly, they are the shadowy figures behind high-profile eliminations. Shaman (Streetwise Occultist): Dealing in the mystical, they blend ancient rituals with street savvy, trading in cursed artifacts.

Unreal Engine - My Own Projects ( All of these are complete my work without any help - arts, models, code, videos, ideas, GDDs etc. )

Project Journey

A game set on a ship sailing to America. Horror of the survival genre, where the player must serve in the crew and fulfill the tasks associated with it. Among other things, the players task will be to keep an eye on his energy level and he must divide the set time into periods when he will work, when he will investigate a detective plot, when he will improve his reputation, and he will also have to decide with whom he needs to have good relations and with whom he does not. On the very first day after setting sail, strange things start happening on board, but these horrifying facts are only visible to the player and not to the NPCs. You will discuss these incidents and strange occurrences with other crew members. Within a limited amount of time, you will have to decide and choose which specific crew member to discuss these things with and to whom you will ask the key questions that will lead you to the objective. The role of captain, cook, navigator, priest and crew will be represented on board. A witch, demon, or other entity may be behind the strange and terrifying events. The time horizon of the game will be 7 days. Save progress in the game only at dawn. The real length of the day will be 2 hours, where one hour will be day and one night. Another specific feature will be the ending of the game, when death is final due to the story - without the possibility of loading. The goal of the game is to survive until you reach a new world and find out the cause of all the strange things that happened along the way. Can you do it? And was the culprit you found really the original evil?

EvolutionTrails

Evolution Trials is a Souls-like game with survival elements and relentless gameplay. You play as a random member of humanity who wakes up in a desert oasis without remembering your name or age. What makes this game truly original is that besides the classic levels and stats like in a normal Soulslike/RPG, you spend “Evolution Points” for every upgrade, and “Genetics Points” for cloning your workers and reviving yourself. But why am I now living as someone else?"

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This is the complete story of my life from school to the present day.

The story of a programmer.

From See it to Do it

When the UE5 Matrix playable demo was released on 9 December 2021, I was excited. I had no idea that gaming industry had moved so far I always thought that without hundreds of people and hundreds of computers there was no game development I knew I had to download it at home, so I did, and I downloaded UE5 and the first spent over 30 hours on it the first weekend, found UnrealSensei on YouTube and did two tutorials. And it was amazing, and over the next couple of months I spent about 40-50 hours on it. a week. And I got into a situation where I can add everything and set everything up, but it doesn't have any functionality and it's not a game, it's just a world that you're free to move around in. And just when I thought I was going to be I'd have to look for a resource that would teach me how to actually develop games in UE and not just make a game where you can't play, I found a promotion on HumbleBundle for "Create Unreal 5 Engine Games Bundle" and bought the complete bundle with all the courses, which started the video game adventure.

In the months and years that followed, I worked on a couple of projects on Game Jam, wrote a few websites, made a few assemblies, made a few concept games, moved a few I moved from the Czech Republic to Germany ( because I don't want my kids to do what I've been doing for years I learn something and then have nowhere to use it), my second daughter was born, I finally played on an official the WoW server, made a high level mage, and as part of the Bohemian Lions guild, I "made history". , built 3 drones and participated in several flying days at the airport in Cheb, he did incredible many different courses around game development mostly in Unreal Engine but not only in it, I learned programming in several programming languages (C++, C#, Java, JavaScript{I don't consider HTML and CSS programming languages}). And now I think the time is finally ripe and my skill to fully dive into my dream industry and help it move forward.

I'm mainly a father, husband, gamer, Star Wars fan, programmer, and a technically minded atheist who who believes that with hard work and dedication, any kind of success is possible.

I'm pleased to present a selection of my most exciting projects that I'm able to share publicly, excluding those covered by NDAs or other contractual agreements. What is 99% of my work in Java and some in Unreal Engine.

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