IVAN ANTEŠIĆ

My Projects

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My CS master’s thesis
An implementation of the seminal multi-agent pathfinding algorithm WHCA* in an open source real-time strategy game engine OpenRA
Tests the claims of scientific research that the algorithm is very suitable for use in RTS games
As far as I know this is the only working implementation of a multi-agent pathfinding algorithm in a real game environment
C#, LUA, YAML, Python, Batch, Git

Implementation and testing of several popular single-agent pathfinding algorithms for RTS games
Created a prototype RTS game with ASCII graphics for testing
Python, libtcod

Wolf attack on a flock of sheep procedural animation and guard dog effectiveness analysis
A group project of two people
I implemented a realistic collision avoidance system for the animals in the simulation according to Reynold’s seminal “Boids” article
Tested several collective behaviour algorithms
C#, Python, Unity

My CS bachelor’s thesis: Game development from the perspective of an independent developer
Studied the video game production process and created a 2D action pixel art game by following the production phases
Made all of the assets except the soundtrack myself
C#, Unity, Adobe Photoshop, Pyxel Edit

Result of the Outfit7 talent camp I attended in 2018 - a two-week summer workshop hosted in Ljubljana
Made a 3D rhythm-based mobile game as a team of 8 people (4 programmers, 2 artists and a game designer)
Published on Google Play after further polishing and company’s framework integration
I programmed the level generation with a parallax scrolling background I was in charge of the Unity project itself: I worked closely with the artists to give them our requirements and integrated their assets into the project and connected them to various scripts made by myself and other programmers
I really enjoyed collaborating with the artists, learning about their tools and complementing each other’s skills to create amazing art such as particle effects and the cell shading effect
Helped the company with their framework integration in Android Studio - made the loading screen with a tip of the day, loading bar and a custom background made by the artists
C#, Java, Unity, Android Studio, Git

You can check out all other games I made so far on my itch.io profile.

Implementation of the mean-shift tracking algorithm combined with the Kalman Filter
Noticeably improves tracking in scenarios when the target is partially or fully occluded
Tested on visual object tracking benchmark sequences
Matlab

Implementation of the Snake active contour model
Automated the segmentation of the mitochondria structures from the volumetric data of a cell
Matlab

A path-tracing framework that iteratively renders a simple scene
I implemented the main path tracing function with Next-Event-Estimation and Russian roulette and three BRDF models: Lambertian, Blinn-Phong and the specular reflection model
C#

Numerical algorithms in the Julia language
LU decomposition for the diagonally dominant band matrices, conjugate gradient method with the incomplete Cholesky factorization preconditioner, Barycentric interpolation, integration with Gauss–Legendre quadrature method, Runge-Kutta method for solving a system of differential equations
Julia, Git

Programs developed for particular scenarios using various data mining and machine learning approaches
Dendrogram construction using hierarchical clustering, clustering languages with k-medoids, dimension reduction of a dataset using principal component analysis, predicting the buses’ arrival time with linear regression, effect of regularisation on logistic regression classifier
Pyhton, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib

Several Python solutions for Rosalind project problems and additional bioinformatics problems
Molecular biology, probability models, gene finding, sequence alignment, Markov models, models of evolution, phylogenetics and sequence assembly.
Python, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib

An end-to-end video game production online course
I attended 14 lectures by experienced mentors from the industry on the following topics: game production phases, studio management, game design, idea testing, PR & marketing, prototyping, asset pipeline, vertical slice, analytics, monetization, fundraising, publishing
Also learned the basics of 3D modelling in Blender
Every lecture came with homework and feedback was given to us by the mentor
Based on my performance I was one of the few who received the certificate of achievement and was invited to give a short presentation on my game projects and my RTS game pathfinding research at the final networking event in person