Open to Senior / Lead roles · Remote / B2B
VR Game Developer
Over a decade of building games! In he last six years shipping commercial cross-platform VR titles on Meta Quest and Steam PCVR, end to end, from idea through prototype to storefront. Founder of Vasil4N, an indie VR game studio, and contract engineer for studios across the world.
Profile
I started coding at 11, when my informatics teacher showed me how to build a simple calculator in C++ and I figured that if I could make a calculator, I could make games. I published my first Android game at 16, and had ten apps on Google Play before I turned eighteen.
Today I run Vasil4N, an independent VR studio in Sofia, where I've designed, built and shipped two flagship escape-room titles across Meta Horizon Store, Steam, Rift and Pico handling everything from gameplay systems and VR optimization to trailers, storefronts and community.
Alongside the studio I take on contract work for other teams: AR features for BMW Group through ALTEN, and currently the Steam port of Dark Trip for iWorlds Studio, architecting a dual VR/flatscreen layer so one codebase ships as both a VR and a standard PC title.
Experience
06.2021 — Ongoing
Built the studio from zero and shipped two commercial VR titles end to end: Oldest Golden Treasure (4.6★) and Escape Room: Bank Robbery Gone Wrong (4.5★, 20,000+ devices) across Meta Horizon Store, Steam, Rift and Pico. Own the full lifecycle: design, engineering, optimization, certification, store releases and marketing.
02.2026 — Ongoing
Porting the Quest horror escape room Dark Trip to Steam: architecting a dual VR/flatscreen layer so the VR standalone game runs both in PCVR and as a standard non-VR PC title.
04.2023 — 09.2023
Implemented new features for an Augmented Reality project for BMW Group, working with Unity, C#, C++ and the Xreal SDK in a Jira-driven team workflow.
01.2022 — 06.2022
Led a small development team creating NFT collections and blockchain-based games, including minting platforms and Web3 integration.
09.2019 — 04.2021
Supervised 9 student teams (36 students) building JavaScript multiplayer games from concept to playable release; taught weekly sessions on game mechanics, architecture and networking.
03.2018 — 05.2018
Represented Bulgaria at the Permanent Mission to the UN, the OSCE, the IAEA, the CTBTO and other international organizations in Vienna.
Flagship work
These aren't just portfolio pieces. They're revenue-generating products that have carried the studio since 2021, maintained live across five storefronts, with ratings players keep pushing up.
A gothic, psychedelic horror escape room: you play an investigator using hallucinations to reveal clues no sober eye could find. My role: leading the Steam port of the Quest title: architecting a dual VR/flatscreen layer (input abstraction, camera rigs, UI reflow, OpenXR/SteamVR integration) so a single codebase ships both as a VR title and a standard non-VR PC game.
Full case files, screenshots and press kits live on the studio site: vasil4n.com →
Off the clock
A sea adventure built with two fellow students at LMU Munich. Played by 5,000+ people, free in the browser.
Catch clues, dodge bombs, chase the high score! Made to celebrate the release of Oldest Golden Treasure.
A Unity-built homage to the arcade classic Gyruss. Escalating circular enemy waves, free in the browser.
Convert between binary, hexadecimal, decimal and octal in the easiest way possible.
Ten apps and games shipped on Google Play before I turned eighteen — where the 10+ years started. Every one carried from scratch to full release and then supported with live updates on the store, some built native in Android Studio, others in Unity. Retired from Google Play today, but eight survive in APKPure's archive with original store pages, version histories and all.
On camera
My latest long-format videos include trailers, devlogs and behind-the-scenes.
More on the channel: youtube.com/@vasil4n →
Toolkit
Education
Both my degrees are from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich — founded in 1472, ranked 30th in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017 (year I started my studies), and home to more than 40 Nobel laureates. I also taught there, tutoring 9 teams of students through building their own multiplayer games.
2020 — 2023
Thesis: The Impact of Trait Psychopathy on In-Game Behavior in Virtual Reality. Focus on artificial intelligence, game development with Unity, and VR.
2017 — 2020
Thesis: A Web Platform for Learning by Exercise Solving and Exercise Creation. Focus on web development with JavaScript/NodeJS, Java and Python.
Hiring for a Senior / Lead Game Developer, or need an engineer who has shipped VR on Quest, Steam and PCVR? I'm one email away! Available for employment or B2B contracts, remote-first from the EU.