Hi, I'm Manoël Nohra

🏆 Won Best Accessibility Award & Nominated for Best Design and Best Technical Innovation at the Ubisoft Gamelab 2026. An asymmetrical co-op game with an 80s-90s theme, developed over 10 weeks.

• Collaborated closely with artists and game designers under strict deadlines.
• Applied 2D mathematics to calculate custom physics for a player (the roller) sliding along a dynamically moving and deforming mesh (the snake).
• Developed the core gameplay architecture inspired by Curve Rush mechanics.

Designed and developed gameplay, UI/UX, and code architecture utilizing a combination of C++ and Blueprints under Unreal Engine 5.

• Leveraged ChatGPT to accelerate engine onboarding and research optimal architectural patterns.
• Developed a scalable foundational base to facilitate easy gameplay extensions and data-driven implementation.

A 3rd person game developed in Unreal Engine 5 for the LOG725 university course.

• Developed in 8 weeks by a team of 3 programmers starting in February 2025, marking our first experience with the engine.
• The theme was "Mother Nature" (Mère nature) where the player gathers abandoned items to craft powerful weapons.
• The main goal is to purify the city from pollution and the creatures created by it.
• Programmed the inventory system, enemy AI and animations, crafting system, and weapon system.

🏆 Best Sound Design. A top-down, procedurally generated game developed in 48 hours during the Montreal GameJam. Reversing traditional roles, you play as the Black Plague with the objective of hunting down the doctor before he gathers a cure.

• Stepped in as Game Designer to conceptualize mechanics aligned with the jam's constraints and communicated the technical vision to the team.
• Programmed core C# mechanics, including camera controllers and base character movement.
• Prototyped enemy AI behaviors (the Doctor) and managed project version control by resolving Git merge conflicts.