Hello!👋 I'm
Jose Striedinger
Game engineer and designer in L.A
With a big focus on community, I’m also the founder of an award-winning eLearning platform teaching thousands of latinos about game development and art.
Featured game work
Unreal Engine
The Guardian
Director / Lead engineer & designer
A journey between a small kid and their watchful protector, inspired by works of Famito Ueda (ICO and others). Showcased at USC Games Expo 2026. I was the main engineer and designer, worked on game AI, interaction systems, and more.
Unity
A Deep World
Gameplay engineer & designer
Guide a small green creature through a dangerous underwater world. Explore, hide, and outmaneuver procedurally animated predators to find your lost friend. As the main developer I created all gameplay systems, AI behaviors and game feel elements like lighting and vfx. Winner of “best game” in “Principe de Los Paramos” awards in Colombia.
Unreal Engine
Lovebird
Gameplay engineer at KOST Inc
Lovebird is an AI driven dating game show where you can interact and have complex relationship with multiple characters. I created gameplay systems, tools and work on AI integrations with third party services like Inworld. Premiered at SXSW 2026 in Austin!
Sorelle
Gameplay Engineer
Whimsical adventure game with a team of 30+ students from USC. I created the dialogue system used by the team in the whole game. Released on Steam
A Pigeon Tale
Technical Designer / Engineer
3D point-and-click narrative driven game about a hurt pigeon in an attic exploring family memories. Winner of Indiecade Hidden Heroes Jam 2023.
Unchained: Tale of Enra
Unity Tools engineer
Built tools to streamline playtesting, including automatic move recording, battle metric tracking, and data export to JSON and CSV.
Wired Coroner
Design assistant
Assist on mechanics and progression with playtesting coordination and analysis.
Shepherds
Game Designer
Led gameplay and level design for a local co-op game with musical mechanics.
Diverse skills in Game Programming and Storytelling
Computer Graphics experience.
OpenGL programming and creating a ray tracing in C++.
ChatGPT Interrogation
Experimenting with new tech.
ChatGPT and Oculus for an interrogation room experiment
Virtual Production experience.
From Motion/Face capture using Motive and Motion Builder, to animation in Unreal Engine
Early years developing the game industry
From 2015 to 2022 I dedicated myself to game development education. I created the first gamedev bootcamp in the history of Colombia, taught game programming in universities, ran an education company in Colombia, and designed and developed arkde.com an eLearning platform teaching 1500+ latinos about game programming and digital art with the thanks of an Epic Mega grant.