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GAME DEVELOPER · UNITY & UNREAL ENGINE 5

I build the systems that make games fun.

I'm Tarık, a game developer based in Istanbul. Over the past three years I've worked with five studios, mostly on remote international teams. My code is live in HELLBREAK, a roguelite arena shooter on Steam, and my next game is headed there too. Most days you'll find me deep in the stuff players feel but never see: multiplayer sync, enemy AI, save systems, frame budgets.

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ENGINESUnity (C#) · UE5 (C++/Blueprint)
LOCATIONIstanbul · UTC+3 · CET-friendly
SHIPPEDHELLBREAK (Steam)
STATUSOPEN TO REMOTE ROLES_
See my work Download CV GitHub ↗
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// Shipped & In Development

The Big Ones

RELEASED ON STEAM · VERY POSITIVE

HELLBREAK

Roguelite arena FPS · Double Barrel Games

A fast-paced roguelite arena FPS where you fight through the arenas of Hell to win back your soul. I started at Double Barrel Games part-time, was promoted to full-time, and stayed on from the first demo through Early Access, the 1.0 launch and post-release support. The HUD and core UI are mine, written in C++ and Blueprint: off-screen enemy direction indicators, the health bar, the souls counter, the skill cooldown system. And when an enemy moved wrong or an ability misfired, that bug landed on my desk.

Unreal Engine 5 C++ / Blueprint HUD & UI Demo → 1.0 → Post-release
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IN DEVELOPMENT · HEADING TO STEAM

Project: ████████

4-player co-op zombie defense · Solo developer

My next game is a 4-player co-op zombie defense title in Unreal Engine 5. Steam multiplayer is already up and running and a playable demo is in testers' hands. Right now I'm obsessing over kill-feel: dismemberment, trap-triggered ragdolls, chain-reaction physics that turn the end of a wave into a small disaster. A mutation system keeps any two runs from playing the same. Name and store page are coming. The zombies floating around this site are the early recruits.

Unreal Engine 5 Steam Multiplayer 4-player Co-op Physics-driven Combat
Steam page — coming soon
SENIOR PROJECT · UNREAL ENGINE 5

Co-Op Survival

Third-person co-op survival · Steam OSS

My graduation project: third-person survival for up to 4 players over Steam. Inventory, crafting, base building, a day–night cycle and enemy AI, all synchronized through Steam Online Subsystem, with a full HUD on top. Building an entire multiplayer survival loop alone taught me more about netcode than any tutorial ever did.

Unreal Engine 5 Steam OSS Crafting & Building
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PC & MOBILE · UNITY

Ranch Gallop

3D endless runner · Procedural generation

A 3D endless runner built around a procedurally generated infinite level, with a save system and tile destruction that keeps memory flat however far you run. It holds its frame rate on PC and on mobile, which matters, because an endless runner that stutters isn't endless. It's over.

Unity · C# Procedural Generation Mobile Optimization
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// Side Quests

More From The Workshop

Personal games and editor tools where I test ideas and break things. Everything here is open source, so go read the code.

UNREAL ENGINE 5EDITOR TOOL

Level Asset Analyzer

An Editor Utility Widget that scans every Static Mesh Actor in a level: triangle and vertex counts, material usage, collision complexity. It sorts actors into Low, Mid and High poly folders, flags duplicate meshes and raises tiered warnings before performance problems make it into a build.

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UNITYONLINE CO-OP

Co-Op Survival 2D

Online zombie survival with synchronized 4-player multiplayer on Netcode for GameObjects. Dynamic wave spawning, varied enemy AI and an upgrade system, all on a clean SOLID architecture.

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UNITYSTRATEGY

Tower Defense

A customizable wave system, several animated enemy types and turrets you can upgrade or sell back. Tuned for actual strategy rather than tower spam.

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UNITYPUZZLE

Animal Match

Match-3 with special tile interactions like dynamite and four-leaf clovers, plus a save system that tracks best scores and level completion.

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UNITYPLATFORMER

Fox's Tale

A 2D pixel-art platformer with double jump, dash and enemy-bounce controls, boss fights, checkpoints and a hand-made pixel UI. That's its hero running along the bottom of this page.

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// Loadout

What I Bring To The Party

Everything here has been used on real projects. Most of it on shipped ones.

ENGINES & LANGUAGES

  • Unreal Engine 5 — C++ & Blueprint
  • Unity — C#
  • Java, C

GAMEPLAY & SYSTEMS

  • Inventory, crafting, building
  • Save/load, day–night, resources
  • Procedural grids & endless levels

MULTIPLAYER & AI

  • Netcode for GameObjects
  • Steam OSS, state sync
  • Behavior Trees, custom nodes

PERFORMANCE

  • Object Pooling, LODs, Data Tables
  • Tick & collision optimization
  • 2–2.5× frame-rate gains, shipped

UI / UX & LOCALIZATION

  • HUD & gameplay UI, custom elements
  • 10+ language localization pipelines
  • Pixel-art & game feel

CRAFT & WORKFLOW

  • Editor tooling — Utility Widgets
  • SOLID & design patterns
  • Git, SVN, Diversion
  • Jira, Notion, Miro
// Achievements

Unlocked So Far

Click one — they're proud of themselves.

// Quest Log

Where I've Fought

The short version. The full playthrough, every quest included, is in the CV.

Hiraru Games Game Developer

Feb 2026 – Present · Remote

Network-synchronized dynamic material systems, a collision-checked player decoration system, client-side VFX, and 10+ language localization.

Visma Games Game Developer

Mar 2025 – Sep 2025 · Remote

Cleaning & Tutorial systems in C++/Blueprint, Behavior Tree AI with custom nodes, save/load, and a 2–2.5× frame-rate boost on a shipped simulation game.

Double Barrel Games Game Programmer

Jun 2023 – Feb 2025 · Remote

HELLBREAK's HUD and core UI from demo to post-release; promoted from part-time to full-time along the way.

Tigloos Games Game Programmer Intern

Jul 2024 – Aug 2024

Procedural-grid chessboard system and an RTS prototype with Behavior Tree AI, both in UE5.

Veri Bilgi Merkezi Software Engineer Intern

Jul 2023 – Aug 2023

RPA data-extraction tool with auto-login, dynamic scraping, and structured Excel export.

Full details — Download CV

REMOTE-READY

All three of my studio roles were fully remote with international teams. I'm in Istanbul (UTC+3) and available during CET/CEST office hours, so scheduling is painless.

LANGUAGES (HUMAN ONES)

Turkish native · English professional · Japanese beginner — enough to read the menus in a JRPG, working on the rest.

BEFORE THE STUDIOS

Selected for KBU Game Experts at university and appointed lab assistant for programming courses — teaching pointers to sleepy sophomores builds character.

— PRESS START —

Ready When You Are

I'm looking for a remote game development role with an international team. If you need someone who can take a feature from first prototype to post-launch patch, let's talk.

ytarik.ipekci@gmail.com Download CV GitHub ↗ LinkedIn ↗
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