Soft launch · Miniclip · 2025 – now
Unannounced multiplayer party game
The game grew out of prototypes I designed and built during the R&D phase. Built with Photon Quantum, deterministic netcode.
Tommaso Bassini
Client Developer at Miniclip
I build multiplayer games and the prototypes that become them.
About
Gameplay programmer with 9+ years in Unity and C#, focused on multiplayer games and rapid prototyping.
At Miniclip I helped find the studio's next title through multiple prototyping iterations, and I'm now building the game that came out of my prototypes, currently in soft launch.
Before Miniclip I made games for tori™ and worked on the first prototypes of the Teburu platform at Xplored, a pet runner on iOS and Android at Affinity Project, and an Xbox One port at CatRabbit.
- Deterministic multiplayerGameplay on Photon Quantum netcode, from the first prototype to soft launch.
- Rapid prototypingIteration cycles in Miniclip's R&D team to find the studio's next title.
- Gameplay systems & AIMinigames, physics-driven mechanics and bots built on behaviour trees.
- Live ops & toolsClient/server communication, and internal tools that speed up building live ops on Football Strike, still in use.
Games
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Football Strike
Head-to-head free kicks, in real time, on mobile.
Three and a half years on the live game: Clubs, the new Season Pass and Team Tournaments.
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Crystal Chase
Fly the tori™ spacecraft over a real board to chase space pirates.
Gameplay mechanics.
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Heroes of Normandie
Porting the D-Day tactics game to Xbox One.
Xbox One port (never released): user management, connected storage, achievements, gamepad management.
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Teburu
Xplored's board-game console, from its first prototypes.
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Jungle Rescue
A physical catapult, a digital jungle, thirty levels of puzzles.
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Shades of Light
Turn a real wand in front of a spotlight to cast the right shadow.
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Supreme Builder
Pick up 3D shapes with a real wand and build a forgotten world.
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Don-Ay: Pet Land
A virtual pet runner that helps real pets find a home.
Where it started · 2015 – 2016
Blind Gladiator
My first game: an audio game made to be played without seeing the screen.
Experience
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Dec 2020 – now
Client Developer · Miniclip
New multiplayer title (soft launch) 2025 – now
- Gameplay programming on an unannounced multiplayer party game built with Photon Quantum (deterministic netcode).
- The game grew out of prototypes I designed and built during the R&D phase.
- Minigames and gameplay systems: bot AI with behaviour trees and physics-driven mechanics.
New game R&D team 2024 – 2025
- Rapid prototyping and multiple iteration cycles to find Miniclip Italy's next title.
Football Strike 2020 – 2024
- Developed Clubs, the new Season Pass and Team Tournaments on the live game.
- A series of A/B-tested features, plus live ops and client/server communication.
- Internal tools that speed up creating live ops, still in use today.
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Feb 2019 – Dec 2020
Gameplay Programmer · Xplored
- Crystal Chase, Jungle Rescue, Shades of Light and Supreme Builder by tori™.
- Gormiti season 3 upgrade.
- Early prototyping of the Teburu platform and its first game, Zombicide Evolution: Las Vegas.
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Jun 2018 – Feb 2019
Gameplay Programmer · Affinity Project
- Don-Ay: Pet Land: UIs from designer specifications and gameplay mechanics in Unity.
- Published on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.
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May 2017 – Jun 2018
Generalist C# Programmer · CatRabbit
- Heroes of Normandie: Xbox One port (never released), gamepad input system, bug fixing.
- Unannounced card game: multiplayer system with GameSparks, UI and gameplay programming.
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Oct 2015 – Oct 2016
Programmer · TiconBlu
- Blind Gladiator: my first game, an audio game for blind and visually impaired players on PC, Mac and iOS. Design and all the game logic.