Pedro Barroso's Game Developer Portfolio
Hello and welcome to my website.
My name is Pedro and I’m a game developer in Portugal, currently working as an Automation Tester but I’m also partially working in games.
I have a passion for storytelling and creative stories, and I have experience working as Game Designer, Game Writer, Tester and Translator.
If you are looking for any of the above, feel free to get in touch through here or my social media.
Work Experience
Present
Currently working as Game Designer on a few unanounced games
Oct. 2022 – Present
Narrative Designer at Jana Games Studios
October 2023
Created the Portuguese Localization for the Visual Novel game A Tale About Flowers, developed by Kakera
Jan. 2022 – May 2022
Jr. Porting Programmer – Beacon Pines
Worked in the porting of the game to Nintendo Switch as part of the internship with Nerd Monkeys.
Nov. 2021 – May 2022
Internship as a programmer at Nerd Monkeys. Worked in the development of two portings for a major console. Also helped with testing and documentation of all issues and bugs found, with steps on how to reproduce and possible fixes.
Tester Experience
List of some of the games which I had to playtest early builds as part of a Testing group. In all of these, not only did I have to look for bugs, issues and had to report them as well, but also had to experiment as much of the game as possible to provide feedback on all the different areas
Articles
Article written in collaboration with Voxel Smash regarding Ape Escape, a Playstation classic game.
“The video games market revolves a great deal around shooters, action games and Souls-likes. Sometimes we all want to blow off some steam by shooting some players or die a billion times to a dragon, right? But what if we want to go back to the old golden age of 3D platformers , ….”
Continue reading at https://voxelsmash.com/ape-escape-classic-ps1-platformer
Review written by me, in collaboration with Voxel Smash, for Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
“Final Fantasy 7 Remake (FF7R) brings a fresh new look to the classic action role-playing game by Square Enix. It features not only revamped gameplay but also an immersive retelling of the original story. If you want to fall in love with a whole new (and old) world, then this one might just be for you. Find more in our Final Fantasy 7 Remake review.
Continue reading at https://voxelsmash.com/final-fantasy-7-remake-review/
Personal Projects
The Struggle
Narrative game
The Struggle is a RPG about raising awareness to mental health issues, specifically, depression. The game features a heavy focus on storytelling and follows the journey of a young boy as he starts falling into depression and his fight to recover.
Game images and dialogue samples below.
For more info, check “The Struggle” game page.
Interactive Dino Run
Endless Runner
An academic group project which consisted on developing an endless runner which allowed for some user personalization and accessibility. The game featured voice commands as an alternative for the standard keyboard input. Due to it being a group project for our course, I’m not allowed to publicly share it, but you can contact me for more information about it.
The new simulation
Writing Jam submission
“The new simulation” is a 500 words submission for a game jam. The story is about two siblings who decide to try out a new VR game which everyone has been talking about. To play, they had to both connect to a VR machine on different rooms. As soon as they did, they entered the game and they were transported to a new world…
Other text-based projects
The castle
The game is a short text-based game about a Princess who has been sent into an unknown territory, escorted by her royal protector Marcus, in order to find salvation for her kingdom and her family.
How would this place save her from the Empire? What secrets did this place hold?
Little did she know what she was about to discover…
The hunting quest
This game is a short text-based game, inspired on comic JRPG scenes and animation shows, featuring several branching dialogs and different endings.
You are an adventurer in a fantasy world, accompanied by your party member, a mage called Sarah. Struggling to make a living for yourself, you depend on the town’s Tavern quest board for income, accepting client’s requests for help.
Will you be able to make it through another day, or will you lead your party to their ending?
Tools
-Unity
-RPG Maker
-Twine
-Ren’Py
-Visionaire Studio
-Construct 3
-Blender
-Adobe applications
-Trello and Jira
-Office and Google docs
-Testing with Cucumber, Selenium, Nunit
-Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code
Pedro Barroso's Game Developer Portfolio 