I’m a Ph.D. student at Computational Intelligence Group with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The focus of my research is looking into environmental and social influences over robotic evolution and exploring the ethical aspects of it.
During my Ph.D. research, I closely collaborated with the researchers at the universities in Bristol, Edinburgh (Napier), and York to build an Autonomous Robotics Evolution (ARE) system.
Wicked Engine is an open-source C++ engine focusing on modern rendering techniques and performance. Use this as a framework for your graphics projects, or learning. Some programming skills are required for the best experience, but some simple tools like an Editor are also included. It is free to be used for anything good. Available on Steam.
Ported the Wicked Engine to Linux 🐧 and the Steam Deck. Collaborator and Linux port responsable since then. Source code, Project page.
Revolve is an open source software framework for robot evolution providing C++ and Python libraries to create, simulate and manage robots in the Gazebo general-purpose robot simulator.
Major developer. Refactored original code into more usable code. Main software used for my PhD. Main maintainer of the project for 3 years, until a major rewrite was planned. Source code. Now superseeded by Revolve 2.
An android live wallpaper with realistic rendering of Mars. Low power consumption. Native Java and OpenGL code. Available on the Play Store and on F-droid.
Solo project. Source code.
Rooting for you is a beat ’em up built for the Global Game Jam 2023 (Amsterdam). The theme was “Roots”. We interpreted the theme as root vegetables fighting for their lives, risking being juiced, making our game more of a juice ’em up. Won best artstyle. Built with Godot 3.5. Source code available. Game can be played online. In the project page native binaries can be downloaded.
Built together with Aart Odding, Aart Stuurman, Arthur Nieuwland and Lot van Engeland.
The only solution to office work is death. Short game where you play as an average office worker, exausted by a job that doesn’t allow for time to enjoy life. This is until, by accident (or by exaushion), you free from the system.
Gamejam from Gamedev.tv 2022. Theme was “Death is only the beginning”. Source code available. In the project page native binaries can be downloaded.
Built together with Jolana Sykorova, Tristan Renfrow and a friend who whishes to remain anonimous.
< University email ✉️ > m.decarlo@vu.nl
< Personal email ✉️ > matteo.dek@covolunablu.org
< Matrix 💬 > @matteo:matrix.matteodroids.science
< Public key 🗝️ > 4801BCDB3D6E7BD8