Gameplay engineer and technical designer. Award-winning educator and entrepreneur who spent 10 years building Latin America’s game dev community.
Gameplay engineer and technical designer. Award-winning educator and entrepreneur who spent 10 years building Latin America’s game dev community. Now building games with a focus on storytelling and curiosity
A journey between a small kid and their watchful protector, inspired by works of Famito Ueda (ICO and others). Showcased at USC Games Expo 2026. I was the main engineer and designer, worked on game AI, interaction systems, and more.
Find more at jstriedinger.com
Built the core gameplay systems for an AI-powered game show (UE5, major streaming client): real-time interpretation of player voice and text input driving the full round-by-round game loop.
Developed a companion AI using behavior trees with custom tasks, services and decorators; built a modular C++/Blueprint interaction system where two detection ranges drive contextual UI feedback, and each object type handles its own interaction behavior through Blueprint overrides.
Released on Steam (30+ student team at USC Games); built a modular C++ dialogue system as an Unreal Subsystem with Actor Components; designed Ground Pound ability, iterated from player feedback into a split double jump + ground pound.
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