Béla Struffolino

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A large-scale multiplayer game server, supporting an active player community and complex in-game systems, which I developed from the ground up and now maintain. The project serves as a technical showcase of scalable Lua-based backend systems, performant networking, and AAA-style UI design within the Source engine constraints.

Highlights:

• Custom Persistence Layer: Designed a player profile system with data schemas for characters, ranks, regiments, and progression, ensuring seamless synchronization across sessions and maps.
• Event Framework: Built a dynamic event system allowing game masters to configure roles, loadouts, spawns, and objectives through an in-game editor, with automatic state persistence and player registration.
• Progression & Gameplay Systems: Implemented a performant XP/leveling system with real-time updates for kills, assists, healing, and revives — optimized for multiplayer environments without degrading server performance.
• UI/UX Development: Designed complex, responsive in-game interfaces mimicking AAA game polish, pushing Garry’s Mod’s UI capabilities to new limits.
• Development Infrastructure: Introduced Git-based version control, structured modular architecture, and a lightweight CI/CD workflow for multi-developer collaboration and testing.
• Integration & Automation: Connected the server ecosystem with Discord bots and a VPS for webhooks, analytics, and external player management.

Garry's Mod (Source) Server Monitor with Metrics Dashboard and REST API

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A monitoring and analytics platform for Garry's Mod servers. It collects server status and player data via the SourceQuery protocol, stores it in a database and exposes a REST API for dashboards or integrations. Through environment variables, the servers to be polled can be configured, the poll interval adjusted, and the poller mode set to test to generate randomized data without actually polling the servers. On the dashboard, the player count graph can be viewed over 1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, or 90 days, with multiple polls aggregated into each x-axis step showing minimum, maximum, and average player counts.

Garry's Mod In-game debugger and logger with Discord bot

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A debugger tool with mainly in-game menus and lots of configuration. There are seperated modules that all aim to collect valuable information to then be accessible immediately in-game with options to also extract the information on the server and to discord webhooks and bots. This project is still being worked on, likely with a cleaner rebuild coming up.