Technical Artist & Graphics / Gameplay Programmer
I build real-time rendering, shaders and tools, and I ship live games. My Roblox games have passed 37 million visits, and my BA thesis rendered carpets fiber by fiber in real time.
Live games first, then rendering research and the shader and tool work behind it.
Live on Roblox
31M+ visits · 728K+ favourites
Lead Developer · Roblox · 2026
A cozy cleaning tycoon: spray, scrub and restore filthy carpets, take on bigger jobs with better gear, and hatch pet companions that clean alongside you. Live, with regular updates and seasonal events.
Play on Roblox
Live on Roblox
6.1M+ visits
Lead Developer · Roblox · 2026
A flood-cleanup game built on a flowing-water simulation. Dig trenches, unblock drains and pump the streets dry with a full set of tools.
Play on Roblox
Shipped on Steam
Published by Kwalee · 2025
Lead Technical Artist / Gameplay Programmer · Blue Goo Games · 2022–23
A 2D cooking and exploration game in Unity. I made the VFX for its mechanics (portals, lightning, storms, water, weapons) and fixed frame drops caused by texture memory.
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In development
Source 2 · C#
Solo Developer · s&box · 2026
A multi-stage surface cleaning workflow (dust, wet, foam, scrub, rinse, squeegee, dry) on dense real-time carpet fibers, with tools, jobs and a work-order HUD.
Winner · Top Prize
Top Prize · Meta Horizon Creator Competition: Mobile Innovation
Gameplay & UI Programmer · Team of 6 · Meta Horizon Worlds · 2025
A portrait-mode mobile arcade game: trace circles, lines and zigzags with your finger to pop the balloons carrying monsters toward your castle. I worked on the gameplay systems and built the Noesis UI for the title screen and leaderboard.
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BA Thesis
Shells 5.5× faster up close · fibers 1.3× faster at room distance
BA Thesis · Cologne Game Lab, TH Köln · 2025
I built two carpet renderers in Unity and measured them against each other: a procedural fiber shader (hardware tessellation, geometry shaders, Kajiya-Kay shading, screen-space LOD) and 64-layer shell texturing with normal mapping. Both were checked against reference photos and profiled on an RTX 3070.
Read the case studyLighting sampled per brush stroke
Makes 3D scenes read like 2D paintings by locking lighting to each stroke's centre instead of each pixel. Includes a custom tool that encodes stroke centres into textures.
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One-click snow on any scene
Unity editor tool that bakes a NavMesh, extracts its geometry and extrudes it into snow layers with occlusion, on any object type.
View ProjectDebris that hugs any terrain
Shader that fits debris to terrain height while keeping each piece's shape, using vertex colours to store mesh part centres for height sampling.
View ProjectStudio, freelance and independent work, most recent first.
Carpet Cleaning Simulator (31M+ visits, 728K+ favourites) and Drain Simulator (6.1M+ visits). I build the gameplay systems and run live updates and seasonal events.
Thesis: real-time fiber and cloth rendering techniques for carpet materials.
Space Chef (released on Steam by Kwalee, 2025): built VFX with Shader Graph and particle systems, AI creatures with behaviour trees, and the inventory system. Profiled and fixed frame drops on weapon switching caused by unnecessary texture memory allocation and oversized textures.
Interactive Unity apps built with Unity UI and DOTween, with a custom styling system modelled on CSS classes. Tight deadlines, strict quality bar.
2D platformer controller, dialogue system and first-time-user tutorial, plus a graph-based spell creation system for custom spells.
Rescue Robots Sniper Survival, a mobile FPS released on Google Play: fixed character controller bugs, implemented new UI and a minimap.
The engines, languages and tools I use to take a visual idea from prototype to shipped.
Where rendering meets gameplay.
I'm Alla Eddine Rakik, a game programmer and technical artist based in Cologne. I graduated in Game Programming from Cologne Game Lab (TH Köln) in 2025.
Most of my work sits where rendering meets gameplay: custom shaders and VFX, editor tools that save artists time, and the profiling that keeps it all at frame rate. At BlueGoo Games I led technical art on Space Chef, since released on Steam, and tracked down frame drops caused by wasted texture memory. In my thesis I built two real-time fiber renderers and measured exactly where each one wins.
Today I build and run live games on Roblox, where my two titles have passed 37 million visits. I work in English (C2), French (C1) and Arabic (native).
// Kajiya-Kay fiber highlight, the model behind my thesis fiber shader
float FiberSpecular(float3 T, float3 V, float3 L, float exponent)
{
float3 H = normalize(L + V);
float TdotH = dot(T, H);
float sinTH = sqrt(1.0 - TdotH * TdotH);
// fade the highlight when the light is behind the fiber
float atten = smoothstep(-1.0, 0.0, TdotH);
return atten * pow(sinTH, exponent);
}Open to full-time Technical Artist, Graphics Programmer and Gameplay Programmer roles in Germany or remote.
I'm based in Cologne and can start immediately. The fastest way to reach me is email.