Alma Mater Studiorum on Michele Righi

Asteroids

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:00:00 +0200

About the Project

Asteroids is a 2D game I developed as a modern take on the classic 1979 Atari arcade of the same name.

Asteroids from Atari, Inc. — 1979

I made it as part of the Principles of Computer Graphics M course at Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. The assignment (lab 02 of the course) asked for an interactive 2D digital animation demo written in C/C++ with OpenGL, explicitly warning that trivial modifications of the provided sample code would not be accepted — so I decided to build an entire small game instead.

Gionnino9000

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:15:00 +0200

About the Project

Gionnino9000 is the team I took part in the Tablut Challenge 2022 with, a competition organized for the Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence M course at Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. Our agent — an AI player capable of playing the board game Tablut — is called Tavoletta.

The rules are the interesting part of a competition like this one: your agent connects to a server running the game engine, and it has one minute per move. Not one minute of thinking on your gaming rig, either: everything runs on a virtual machine with 4 CPUs, 8 GB of RAM, no GPU and no internet connection. Whatever your agent is going to do, it has to do it there.

Waste Service

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:00:00 +0200

About the Project

WasteService is a distributed software system implementing a differentiated waste disposal service. It’s made of several application components, designed to run on nodes with heterogeneous architectures: a mobile device, a Raspberry Pi and headless nodes.

I developed it with my university colleagues TryKatChup and Raffaele Battipaglia for the Software Systems Engineering M course at Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, following the SCRUM agile framework.

The Goal

The point of the course was to simulate the commission of a software system to an agile SCRUM team. The customer was the professor himself, Antonio Natali, who handed us a requirements document and a set of supporting tools to integrate into the project — and who played the customer role for real, sprint review after sprint review.

BSc Thesis - Unity DOTS

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0200

About the Project

Multiplayer Applications and Games on Unity DOTS Architecture is my bachelor’s degree thesis in Computer Engineering, discussed in March 2021 at Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Bellavista and the co-supervision of Dott. Andrea Garbugli.

The paper had two goals: analysing the data-oriented layout that Unity was introducing with its new Data-Oriented Technology Stack (DOTS), and proving it actually worked by building a fully playable multiplayer prototype made entirely with DOTS — no GameObjects, no MonoBehaviours in the gameplay code.