Freelance game designer: level design and Unreal Engine development, plus environment and technical art, for PC, mobile, VR and AR. Based in Jaén, Spain.
Selected work
Shipped games and VR for studios and clients. Four highlights here, more below.
A fast, colourful flag quiz for phones: guess or paint flags, then test yourself on places, people and history. Out now on Google Play.
My role: Game design, art and technical art
Third-person action adventure: the Berserker’s journey begins.
A Viking mead hall in VR: explore it, then choose your hero.
A take on the Suika watermelon mechanic with a twist: merge the fruits and watch the score climb. A two-person project covering art, code and economy design.
My role: 2D artist, programmer, game and economy designer
What I do · 01 / 03
Spaces that tell the story through their architecture. Every corridor, vista and light source has a job, from blockout and pacing to the final pass.
Unreal Engine 5, Unity
What I do · 02 / 03
Believable places with a point of view: set dressing, materials, Lumen lighting and cinematics that sell the mood.
Blender, Unreal Engine 5
What I do · 03 / 03
Material pipelines, optimisation and performance budgets, so the art survives a phone GPU, a standalone headset or a PCVR build.
Toolkit
Experience
Freelance
Level design, environment art and 3D generalist work for games, ArchViz, VR and AR, for studios and clients worldwide.
ConeCorp
Optimised assets, built material pipelines and kept visual fidelity intact from concept to real-time render.
Mad Viking Games
Core member of the design team on Ashes of Idunn: level design, environment art, VR and AR experiences, character showcases and the cinematic trailer.
4 completed jobs on Upwork, every one rated five stars.
“Rafael is an amazing contractor and helped us complete our project on time by matching our requirements. I definitely recommend Rafael to anyone for their work!”
“Nothing extra to add — it just worked as expected. Even went above and beyond by solving some extra issues with GitHub along the way.”
“Delivered exactly what was needed for our VR Backrooms game. Solid Unreal developer who understands the brief and executes cleanly.”
“Great work!”
About
I’m a level designer and environment artist based in Jaén, Spain. I care about game spaces that carry the narrative through their architecture: a well-built level can tell as much of the world as the script does.
Venezuelan, raised in Canada, with years in the United States along the way. I work in English and Spanish, remotely, with teams anywhere.
Contact
Have a level, a world or a VR build that needs a hand? I’m available for freelance and contract work, remotely, in English or Spanish.