Tbilisi · GMT+4
Open to work · Relocation ready
Unity Developer & Technical Artist
In game development since 2021 — gameplay programming and systems architecture fused with technical art: custom shaders, VFX and rendering optimization in URP & HDRP.
Unity Developer & Technical Artist — in game development since 2021.
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Live shader · Frame: Night atmosphere · -- FPS ·
Aura Farming live on Steam · Reday-1 · jam games · more on request
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Live on SteamResults
Idle game, live on Steam since June 2026 under the studio's Fropy Studio label — 120+ reviews, Mostly Positive.
My part: ability VFX and character auras, UI and scene integration, post-processing setup and rendering optimization.
Built at Elven Empire · published under the studio's Fropy Studio label
Unreleased · Steam pageData-driven quest system, NPC navigation, save / load and custom editor tooling. Architected 10+ core systems while leading a team of 6.
Founder & Lead Game Developer, Homo-Ludens
Game jams
Playable · itch.ioBrowser platformer with tower-defence elements: stay on the platform and keep the generator alive. Built by a team of four in 72 hours for Indie Varvar's Jam #5 (Sep 2023).
Jam result: #6 of 63 entries in Graphics.
Programmer · credited on itch.io as ALEPACHO
Halloween Game Jam 20232D pixel-art horror story with dialogue scenes, made for Halloween Game Jam 2023.
Programmer
Solo · 12 h
Game jamsMore playable jam demos — including a full prototype designed and built solo within 12 hours.
Selection on request
Studio & freelance
In developmentStylized top-down RPG, in development. Custom grass rendering system — GPU instancing (DrawMeshInstancedIndirect), chunked loading, wind vertex animation — plus URP water & vegetation shaders and custom lighting.
CommercialClient-server architecture, progression and microtransaction systems for an online action title, designed to extend cleanly with new online features.
Gameplay & real-time VFX · tech-art demo
MenuHow it's built — WindCore.hlsl · URP shaders · this page's background
Menu// Tech Art · Shaders
A single WindCore.hlsl include drives grass, flowers and every wind-swayed object — layered value-noise / FBM for the breeze, a travelling gust wave for punchy bursts, and a per-vertex bend that sags instead of stretching. Depends only on _Time, so it costs nothing at runtime.
// travelling gust wave
float wavePhase = dot(worldPos.xz, dir) * 0.1 - time * 0.9;
float waveFront = smoothstep(0.90, 1.0, sin(wavePhase));
float totalWind = lightBreeze + waveMask * 0.7
+ windNoise * (lightBreeze + waveMask) * 0.4;
// bend the blade, then sag so it never stretches
worldPos.xz += (dir + swirlDir) * bend;
worldPos.y -= (1.0 - sqrt(1.0 - bend * bend)) * heightT * scale;One include animates grass, flowers & foliage — driven only by _Time.
// Shaders · Lighting · VFX
A single cohesive look across water, vegetation, character outlines and effects — built with custom HLSL and Shader Graph, custom lighting solutions, and gameplay / ambient VFX tuned for runtime performance.
One consistent art direction — grass, water, characters and effects.
// WebGL1 · GLSL ES 1.0 · no libraries
This page's background is a live fragment shader running over frames from projects I worked on: sine distortion, mip-bias blur, BT.601 luminance mapped onto a five-step palette, stepped caustics and rising bubbles — rendered at reduced resolution and paused when you can't see it.
Shader is off on this device (reduced motion / data saver / no WebGL).
Res 0.5× · Cap 30 FPS · Caustics 10 Hz · -- FPS now
Written up on r/Unity3D — Shader Graph, projection mapping, HDRP
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TutorialStep-by-step guide to a painted 2.5D look: a gray-box scene, a paintover projected back onto the geometry with camera projection mapping, and the Shader Graph setup behind it.
BreakdownWorld-space vertex snapping in a Shader Graph HLSL function that keeps skinned meshes and HDRP shadow maps intact, plus volumetric particle fog.
6 frames — lighting, VFX, environments
MenuGameplay, VFX and technical art — custom grass & water, dynamic lighting and cinematic scenes across shipped and in-development titles.
Tbilisi, Georgia · open to work · relocation ready
MenuUnity developer in game development since 2021, combining gameplay programming and systems architecture with technical art — shaders, VFX, animation and rendering / performance optimization.
Most recently at Elven Empire (Jan — Sep 2026): tech art on Aura Farming (live on Steam under the studio's Fropy Studio label, 120+ reviews, Mostly Positive) — ability VFX and character auras, UI and scene integration, post-processing and optimization — and a custom grass rendering system with URP water and vegetation shaders for Apothecary's Dungeon. Previously founded an indie studio and architected the core systems of Reday-1 — a data-driven quest system, NPC navigation, save / load and custom Unity Editor tooling.
Seeking Open to Unity roles and technical-art work — full-time or contract.
Sep 2021 → now · 3 roles
MenuJan 2026 — Sep 2026
Elven Empire
Aura Farming (Steam, Fropy Studio label) · King of Merchants · Apothecary's Dungeon
Nov 2024 — Dec 2025
Homo-Ludens
Reday-1 (unreleased)
Sep 2021 — Present
Self-employed
Gameplay & progression systems for commercial, personal and game-jam projects
Toolbox — 6 sets
MenuMaster's · Bachelor · English B2
MenuMaster's
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU)
Bachelor
Ufa University of Science and Technology
Languages
Let's build something
Open to Unity roles and technical-art work — full-time or contract. Relocation ready. The fastest way to reach me is Telegram or email.
