Games Design and Programming

Ioana-Georgia Gherasim

UK-based Game Designer and Programmer with a passion for animals and horror games! All time favourite game has got to be Alien: Isolation, but I've got hundreds of hours in Minecraft, Ark, RimWorld and more. I like to focus on game mechanics and making the most fun out of what I have worked on.

Papers' Please inspired project made in 3 months where you play as a train inspector using a powerful x-ray machine. You have to meet a quota, send trains to the correct destinations, and avoid sending contraband to innocent places!

Space Spinner was my team's entry to JuniperDev's Super Serious Game Jam! The theme was "Spin to Win", so we came up with the idea of a stranded spaceship that, due to broken engines, is constantly spinning! To fix it, the Player needs to earn enough money by dashing into enemies and slingshotting off of planets.

Sweet and short platformer to test out level design ideas and audio implementation. Art assets were from an asset pack and, although some of the enemy placement could be better, it's still a fun solo project with some nice hidden secrets!

Space Fighters is a game made in two weeks where you pilot a ship to kill the enemies and get to the next high score! It was a solo project.

Small game made over the Summer where the Player has to avoid oncoming attacks from all over the screen. Made quickly to test out a fun idea I had and to learn more about FMOD integration.

Pacror is a project made in two weeks in a team of five! Inspired by the influential classic game, Pac-Man, we twisted it into you being the one chased down by him. I worked specifically on Pac-Man's AI, using Lethal Company as a basis for interesting encounters in a maze-like environment. He will patrol around the maze until he finds the Player, and if he loses the Player too many times, he unlocks extra abilities based on how "angry" he is.