Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope

Role: 3D Environment Artist & Level Designer

I joined the team at Croteam during development of Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope, where I contributed as both a Level Designer and 3D Environment Artist. My work focused on building levels optimized for VR, where achieving 90+ FPS was a strict performance requirement. This meant every design and asset decision needed to balance visual fidelity with performance, pushing me to learn aggressive optimization strategies.

My first major assignment was “Arcadia Minor”, a full four-level environment.
In my own time, I designed a bonus level, “Forgotten Realm”, which was later integrated as a core part of a new gameplay mode, Arena Mode, a system that didn’t exist before.
I worked directly with programmers and producers to adapt Arena Mode into the game’s loop, helping with design logic, pacing, and environment balance.

Beyond design duties, I proposed a background narrative system to subtly thread story across the levels, an idea that wasn’t in the original scope but was approved and implemented:

In Arcadia Minor, a ship first appears in the distance, then approaches in a later level, becomes a boss encounter, and finally appears crashed in the background.
This non-intrusive environmental storytelling added cohesion to otherwise standalone combat arenas.

Overall, I contributed not only to content creation, but to gameplay system design, narrative cohesion, and performance-critical problem solving, helping shape features that hadn’t existed at the start of the project.