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Hello!

I'm Robin Devouge,
front-end developer & teacher

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I'm looking for extra work.
Let's have a chat!

I'm a front-end developer with a passion for creating interactive and engaging web experiences.

I also am curious at heart and love to discover new (any)things and sharing it, that's why I'm teaching web animation at HEAJ since 2024 and loving it.

Interested in my full career path?
Have a look at my resume.

(not so) serious business

Here are some of the projects created over the years.
Some were made while I was working at Hilarious or Emakina, some are school works or old personal projects, which are still worth a look if you're not afraid of spaghetti code, but all the skills involved are still relevant.

  • A visual of Billy, a 3D character, over a white background

    Où est Billy ? (2017)

    This was my final project: a small serious game where players had to find a lost kid among a crowd, displayed on a big screen, by using their smartphones to locate him. It was designed to be part of a fictional Child-Focus-like organization campaign.

    • Node
    • Socket.io
    • Three.js
  • A screenshot of Capsule d'Architecture's website

    Capsule d'Architecture (2022)

    This website was one of the first where I used NetlifyCMS (now renamed DecapCMS) to have total control over the backend interface as well as a much cleaner experience for the client when editing content.

    • HTML
    • CSS
    • JS
    • GSAP
    • 11ty
    • NetlifyCMS
    • CI/CD
  • The letter C and a "+" symbol in its center, over a blue background

    Centrallo (2016)

    Centrallo is a note taking app which onboarding experience was so bad that you'd want to uninstall it without even testing it. That's why the whole process was redesigned during a dedicated workshop (but never shared with the devs).

    • UX
    • User onboarding
  • A screenshot of Clap and Act website

    Clap and Act (2020)

    This small website was created to support a fundraising campaign for hospitals in Belgium during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since time was of the essence, it was developed in only a few days, which is quite a feat for a company of this scale.

    • HTML
    • CSS
    • Parcel
  • A screenshot of Deutsche Bank's website

    Deutsche Bank (2018-2020)

    For 2 years, I was in charge of the integration of new pages and development of tools for Deutsche Bank's belgian public website, while also maintaining and updating the existing ones. I also configured a fully customized webpack environment to suit the delivery needs which were very specific.

    • HTML
    • CSS
    • JS
    • Handlebars
    • Vue
    • Webpack
  • A screenshot of Pairi Daiza Animal Adventures website

    Pairi Daiza Animal Adventures (2019)

    My first experience with React, when Pairi Daiza opened the Animal Adventures back in 2019. It has since been fully integrated in the main website and ticketing platform, making it impossible to link even an archive due to discontinued APIs.

    • React
  • The letter R, representative of the Relic app, over a red background

    Relic (2016)

    What if the Internet was down forever by tomorrow ? What could remain of it ? Our answer is Relic, a short interactive story made in 24h during the Web Basement.

    • Interactive storytelling
  • A screenshot of TBSCG's website

    TBSCG (2022)

    This site was also made with NetlifyCMS, but was far more complex in terms of content management, which showed how much could be achieved with this stack. Integration was also fun and challenging thanks to the design and the many animations.

    • HTML
    • CSS
    • JS
    • GSAP
    • 11ty
    • NetlifyCMS
    • CI/CD

Bungee Jump

Developed in 2021 for Proximus

About this game

It was one of the first big games I worked on when I arrived at Hilarious. At the time there wasn’t any streamlined development process, each game was started from scratch and we still relied on jQuery for a lot of interactions (which I did my best to remove quickly over later game developments).

The whole game, except the UI, is actually one huge SVG where I animated all the elements and made a system to zoom and pan the SVG with camera-like controls.

I also added a threshold to the power bar to allow players to succeed the jump when it was actually failed by a few pixels. This reduced frustration while increasing the chances of a close win scenario, which boosts player satisfaction.

Red Devils Shirt

Developed in 2022 for Proximus

About this game

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Red Devils Sweden

Developed in 2023 for Proximus

About this game

It may not look like it but the characters are in threejs.

Our games were primarily played on low-to-medium-end smartphones, so performances of were critical. Since CSS 3D transforms are not efficient I had to use threejs to create a realistic perspective matching the 2D background. This is the result of several hours of carefully setting up the camera position and fov as well as the characters movements and speed, which can change depending the screen size you’re playing on.

And the animations themselves are 2D sprites generated from pre-rendered 3D animations.