VR Game Developer @ VRMonkey
Vinicius Passos
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I'm a game designer and a programmer, and I've always done both. Right now my work is porting: bringing VR games to PlayStation 5 and PlayStation VR2.
Champion of the Dungeon
Floor 10 Cleared
Hi, I'm Vinicius. I'm a game designer and a programmer, and I've never managed to separate the two: I like sketching a mechanic on paper and then being the one who writes the code that makes it work.
I spent two years at Ocarina Studios leading a five-person team and tuning mobile games with Firebase data in hand. One of them reached 40% D1 retention. Now I'm at VRMonkey coding VR ports for PS5 and PlayStation VR2, which is a very different job: here the challenge is understanding code I didn't write and making it run on other hardware.
On the side I'm doing a postgrad in neuroscience and decision-making. It may sound unrelated, but to me it's the same subject: understanding why a player does what they do. In practice my process is blunt: prototype in days, playtest early, read the data, cut whatever doesn't earn its place.
VRMonkey
- Porting Unity VR games to console, working on top of an existing codebase.
- Adapting the interaction layer to PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers.
- Porting VR titles to PS5 / PlayStation VR2: frame budget, input remapping and platform certification.
- Profiling and optimising to hold a locked framerate across standalone and console headsets.
Ocarina Studios
May 2023 - April 2025- Designed and developed mobile games reaching up to 40% D1 retention.
- Led gameplay systems and UI/UX implementation in Unity.
- Project management and leadership of a 5-person multidisciplinary team.
- Project selected for the Google Indie Accelerator.
Academic
Journey
My academic path combines technical expertise in game development with advanced studies in leadership and cognitive science.
Digital Games Degree
Technologist Degree in Digital Games. Developed "Memories of a Scattered Mind".
MBA Game Design
Specialization in leadership, innovation, and emerging tech (VR/AR, AI) for games.
Neuroscience & Physics of Consciousness
Study of cognitive processes and decision-making to enhance interactive experiences.
N.D.A 01
Rebuilding a VR title's interaction layer for PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers, holding the console frame budget, and taking the build through platform certification.
N.D.A 02
A second unannounced title on the same PS5 / PlayStation VR2 pipeline: a different game, and a chance to apply what the first port taught about console constraints.
Dream QuiZzz
A dream world rebuilt one right answer at a time. Trivia wrapped in branching adventure progression, tuned on Firebase data to a 40% D1 retention peak.
Mysterious Restaurant
Inherit a restaurant outside of time. A cozy sim built on Match-3 and Merge. I led design and development, including a mid-production pivot away from trivia.
Memories of a Scattered Mind
A Vietnam veteran's house won't stay the way he left it. Narrative horror built on dread instead of jump scares. It was my first 3D project and my graduation title.
Pong StudyProject
The classic, rebuilt from scratch to get deterministic 2D physics and zero-latency input exactly right.
Shooting Zombies
A horde shooter used as a lab for object pooling and AI state machines in Unity and C#.
Elisa Demite
Concept Artist & Illustrator | Ocarina Studios
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Matheus de Oliveira
Unity & XR Developer | Ocarina Studios
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Gregory Valentim
Game Developer | Ocarina Studios
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Ricardo Lima
Unity Game Developer | Ocarina Studios
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Got a game, a VR experience or a port that needs someone who can design it and build it? I read every message, whether it's a full-time role or freelance work.