Projects – Matteo Perini

CHOMMY FOREST

Chommy Forest is a match-3 mobile game and my first “shipped” title. Developed in 5~ months, it was my first experience working with a larger team (~14 people). I conceptualized the game based on the given business plan, curated gameplay, UX and thoroughly tested all minigames, match 3 and recipes’s loops, created most of the VFX, non-character animations and handled localization.

Invaluable lessons were the importance of well written and readable documentation and learning how to work with a team filled with different roles that tackle all aspects of production.

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POKER MONSTER

Poker Monsters began in university as a Print-and-Play board game that evolved, post-graduation, into a single-player roguelite deckbuilder. Motivated by the feedback we received on the board game, we created a prototype to showcase at a publisher event in Florence. 

Though I ultimately stepped away from the project for personal reasons, it was an invaluable experience: It taught me a great deal about system design, meaningful choices, and translating analog game mechanics into digital gameplay.

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AVARICE

Avarice: Fallen Gods is a first-person parkour-puzzle game and my final project at SAE.
This project’s focus was handling flow through all aspects of the game, from Gameplay to Level Design. I led a team of 7 from start to finish and coordinated design, production, development and testing. We hit our deadlines with a polished prototype we kept refining even after graduation.

More than anything, this taught me the value of cross-discipline collaboration, working closely with artists to bring the game’s vision to life.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. began as a narrative-driven, dreamlike adventure, but when the concept fell flat in playtesting, we had to pivot fast. The result was that in just under two months, we reworked it into a third-person shooter that testers found fun.

This project taught me how to assess, adapt quickly, and pivot projects even when times are strict. Also, this being my first UE5 project, I got familiar with all aspects of UE5 like blueprints, niagara, behaviour trees, curve assets, animations and more.

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DIVINE GAMBIT

Divine Gambit is a humorous mashup of WarioWare’s rapid-fire chaos and The Binding of Isaac’s roguelite structure.
Created for an exam on target audience and narrative design. It satirizes lazy 9-to-5 office life with absurd caricatures and fast-paced mechanics designed to engage different player types. 

It taught me how essential replayability is, not just in roguelites, but in game design as a whole.

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SPLITTING

This was my first videogame as a student at SAE Institute Milano. As a first project we aimed to experiment with flow by making a simple puzzle-platformer. It quickly became anything but simple.   

Despite that, I have been able to learn a lot: from handling cognitive load (the game had way too many buttons) to creating and designing something that is feasible in a timely manner. All these lessons paid off in future projects.

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