cinematics
level design
Marcin Zapedowski
playable worlds & cinematics
Marcin Zapedowski is a Dublin-based game developer specialising in Unreal Engine 5 — level design, cinematic sequencing and environment art, from atmospheric horror to combat-driven action.
I design levels and create cinematics in UE5.
I try to tell a story through environments and materials and surprise the player with something interesting on every corner. I think games should be fun and play great.
Selected work
— 02 · 07 projects · flip the cards
Game · UE5 · 2025
01
The Dingle Mystery
First-person detective horror in foggy Dingle. Best Game — Animation Dingle 2025.
Case study +The Dingle Mystery
Detective horror in UE5 — Best Game, Animation Dingle 2025.
Game · 2.5D · 2026
02
Rad Knight
2.5D metroidvania where skateboarding is the combat. Steam — 2026.
Open +Rad Knight
Skateboarding metroidvania. Steam 2026.
Reel · Sequencer · 2025
03
Cinematics in UE5
Sequencer-driven shots from the short film Joke Dealer — Metahuman, Lumen, Movie Render Queue.
Open reel +Cinematics in UE5
Joke Dealer short film — Sequencer, Lumen.
Practice · Ongoing
04
Level Design
Whiteboxing, sightlines, pacing — live process atlas in Miro.
Open atlas +Level Design
Whitebox, sightlines, pacing — live Miro atlas.
Asset work · Blender
05
3D Models
Dublin DART & NYC Subway trains — Blender to UE5.
See below +3D Models
DART & NYC Subway trains — Blender → UE5.
Environment · 2026
06
NY Building
Modular old-New-York building — 10 modules, 2K textures.
See below +NY Building
10 modules, 2K textures — Blender → Substance → UE5.
Side practice
07
Murals — ZAP Art
200+ large-scale wall paintings across Dublin since 2009.
zapedowski.com/murals +Murals — ZAP Art
200+ walls across Dublin since 2009.
game? 08
Hire me
Open to level design and cinematic work — Q2 2026.
Contact +Hire me
Open to level design & cinematic work — Q2 2026.
The Dingle Mystery.
First-person detective horror set on a foggy Irish coastal village of Dingle. I was responsible for level design, game design, story and environmental storytelling. Led a team of four to achieve forty minutes of gameplay in 4 months.
Rad Knight.
A medieval knight skateboarding on a sword. Grind rails, kickflip into sword strikes. Chain combos through forest, castle and mountain. Destroy enemies in 2.5D, action-packed world where every trick is an attack and every attack is a trick and everything wants to trip you up.
Joke Dealer.
Cinematic for the short film Joke Dealer, made in UE 5.5. I put together a dreamy environment and created cinematic atmosphere using lights, fog, camera effects and for the main character used Metahuman with the scanned face of the film's main actor.
3D work
— 06 · Blender → Substance → UE501 — Train · Dublin DART
Dublin DART model
02 — Train · NYC Subway
Graffiti decals · Weathered panels
03 — NY Building
ArtStation ↗
Muralist first. Now building indie games.
A wall and a level have the same problem: how do you guide a moving body through a frame, slow them in the right places, give them a horizon to walk toward? Seventeen years of murals taught the vocabulary — UE5 is where it translates.