Hello, I am Erik Sänd.
A Game Developer, programmer and creative born in Sweden, 1998.
I have been working in the Unity game engine and using it as a means to express my creativity since 2014 when I entered high school focusing on science and art in relation to game programming in C#.
In 2019 I entered the Blekinge Institute of Technology with a course of study focused on game programming in C++, but dropped out in 2020 at the start of the Covid pandemic.
Whilst I love programming, since dropping out of University I have been focusing less on the technical side of game development, shifting my focus to mapping in Source 2 and modelling using Maya and ZBrush.
Most recently I have delved deeper into UV mapping as well as creating both high-resolution tileable textures and materials for my models, although I still have a lot to learn on that front!
I use the models and materials I create in my Hogwarts map for Source 2, which is my latest project where I try to recreate the Hogwarts castle
from the movies as accurately as I can for use in the upcoming game S&Box for roleplay and other purposes.
I have released a few games available to play as products of weekend long 'jam' sessions where people compete with themselves to create a playable game within 72 hours.
All of these games were made in the Unity game engine by me alone. All the assets and code was realized
within 72 hours, with exception of the 2d character controller which I created and reused between all of these games.
King of Coins and Spitbeat are not available to play in the browser, and require you to download them. Sorry for the inconvenience!
If it has to do with game development, I'm into it! I have spent a lot of time during the pandemic towards learning more about 3D modelling and texturing. Here are some of the 3D models up on my Sketchfab right now:
My Inventory is an unreleased inventory system for Unity I planned to release at the start of this year. The purpose of the system was to provide an easy solution to inventory management for
new and even experienced game developers for use in their games.
The system is quite customizable, and able to portray many different styles with custom functionality depending on the users need.
My Inventory generates a mesh based on a multitude of customizable parameters, and displays it as an Image component on the Canvas.
I plan to go back to this project in the future, as it is so close to completion, there are just a couple of things left to iron out. There is even a documentation built albeit somewhat outdated.
You can find the documentation here.
Ever since Valve released the tools for Half-Life: Alyx, allowing anyone to create custom levels for the game with the tools that Valve use themselves, I have been obsessed with it.
Since there are no real programming tools included, I was forced into a new path of creating maps and level art.
This has grown to be a new passion for me, and I love the process of creating environments that feel lived in, all from scratch.
I released my first playable map for Half-Life: Alyx on 24 july, 2020. You can download it here!
A continuation was briefly worked on, continuing right where Street_War ended. The map would have the player crash in an elevator, and move around in a dark environment far below the ground.
My most recent project as stated previously. I started building this map around August 2020, but stopped working on it until February 2021 again, where I went all out to recreate Hogwarts.
I created a thread on the Facepunch forums discussing this map in detail, So I will just redirect you there!
There's also an update post further down that page, so don't miss that!
