Benoit Boyer

Designing and implementing features (while supporting other team members)

After being noticed on my work and my method on one of the main features I implemented for Baldur’s Gate III, I joined the UI/UX Design department as a Technical UI Designer, putting my knowledge from the code side and supporting fellow designers with this knowledge, helping with estimations and what needs to be done, while learning the ropes about UI and UX design.

The playground of game devs in Québec City

After the COVID-19 Pandemic, with some friends we decided to host and create a physical Game Jam within Québec City, to restore the sparks and conviviality of the video game industry in Québec City.

Implementing UIs and game features

My main work on Baldur’s Gate III is implementing the User Interfaces, working closely with the designers and the other team members, always ready to give a hand and feedback to improve the original designs.

First steps in the game industry and discovering Gameplay and UI programmer jobs (and breaking my first builds).

During my internship at Larian, I discovered how the game development works on a bigger scale, making my first implementations and contributions in Divinity: Original Sin 2, then later in Baldur’s Gate III.

Teaching while creating a video game with teenagers.

During this facultative summer internship, we taught children and teenagers how to create a video game, showing the relation between what they’re learning in school and how it can be applied in real-life cases.

During my time of my Master’s Degree, I specialized my computer science skills into Graphics, Image Processing and Video Games development, learning mostly to manage small projects and working as a team with deadlines.

Outside the university, I spent most of my free time attending to the MUUG (Montpellier Unity User Group) to attend monthly talks related to video games, and participating to any game jam I could, creating my bases for the video game industry and having a little knowledge in most of the fields that the video game industry cover, facilitating communicaiton.

During my time in Scotland, I learned how to handle projects and team working, as well improving my english and my communitcation skills.

Outside the university, I spent most of my free time visiting Scotland, learning a new culture and discovering the world from another perspective. But mostly, spending time at the comic shop, practicing my English and playing Dungeons & Dragons, making me think, tell stories and working with a group to achieve our goals.

After my A-Level in Scientific (Engineering sciences speciality), I went to do a 2-year undergraduate diploma in technology, which built my computer sciences and algorithm skills, to which I’m still using today.

Outside the university, I discovered Unity and the game jams, being the first step to be in the video game industry.