Elbert Perez

Senior Partner Engineer at Unity, with 20+ years in games and VR.

19 games published on Windows Phone and Xbox Live Indie Games: 15 and 4, respectively. 2–3 month development cycles.

Games

Independent games and playable experiments. Start with the experience.

Mecha Drive
Cause a pile-up. Get to the finish. Out now on web and Android, with iOS coming soon.
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Selfie the Spire
A card-game prototype where your photo becomes a hero and signature card for battle.
StarGazer
A space game in development, with capital ships, star maps, and dialogue.
Wasteland Arena
Two squads of six fight it out in a tactical arena.
Bananatcha
Turn the crank, open a capsule, collect a banana.
Ryse: Son of Rome
At Microsoft, I produced the Ryse SmartGlass companion app and interactive graphic novel tie-in.
Windows Phone Games
15 independently published games, built in 2–3 month cycles.
Xbox Live Indie Games
Four independently published Xbox Live Indie Games, built with XNA.

Useful tools, browser simulations, and creative side projects.

Fruit Fly
A prototype for exploring how a simulated fruit fly senses and responds to its surroundings.
Unity Releases
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Hataw
Web hosting for projects built with AI agents.
Menu to Menu
Translate a menu and show your order in the original language.
Banana Sama
Photograph a plant to get identification and care advice.
Nikon ZFC
Learn what the camera dials do by changing the settings yourself.
FSD Sim
A browser driving simulation set in Seattle.
CitySnap
Pick a city and watch its buildings collapse.
Mandatory Fun
An unofficial fan project about starship meetings, seen through the eyes of an unimpressed teenager.

Customer engineering and professional team contributions across platforms.

Unity Engine
As a Senior Partner Engineer at Unity, I help studios solve technical problems and make architecture decisions.
Xbox One Console
As a Technical Program Manager at Microsoft, I delivered Xbox One launch projects and coordinated teams and vendors for SmartGlass.
Habitat
As lead programmer at 4Gency, I led the game team from conception to Steam publication.

Collaboration, interfaces, and immersive demonstrations.

HTC Vive
At HTC, I coordinated more than a dozen Vive demos with teams in Seattle and Taiwan.
Rumii
As CTO at Doghead Simulations, I led the distributed team building a VR education and training platform.
Vive Home & Viveport
At HTC, I coordinated teams in Seattle and Taiwan to develop VR interfaces and interactions.
Stageverse
As Unity Technical Lead at Stageverse, I led development of the iOS, Android, and WebGL client.
Enterprise XR Solutions
At Valorem Reply, I built multi-user AR demos for Fortune 100 clients.

Platform foundations and work beyond the screen.

Windows Vista
At Microsoft, I built localization test automation across 23 languages as a contract test engineer.
3D Printing & Fabrication
3D printed figures and other things made outside the screen.

Independent releases, current projects, and professional team contributions.

US 10,521,008 B2 — Co-inventor of a method for taking photographs inside a virtual environment using a VR viewfinder and controller.