Work Experience
2012-2013
Web Developer
Freelancer
Education
Qualifications
Languages
German (native), English (fluent), Korean (basic)
Programming Languages
JavaScript, C++, C#, Java
Frameworks
Node.js, React, Amazon Web Services, Adobe Experience Manager, Unity, XNA, MonoGame, Android SDK, Windows Phone SDK, OpenGL, OpenCV
Excellent Skills
Object Oriented Programming, Software Engineering, Web Development
Other Skills
Scrum, Creative Writing, Acting
Realized Between 06/2013 and 06/2014 in a Team of 6 (Scrum)
Responsibilities:
Software Architecture (Programming Lead)
Tool Programmer (Design and Implementation of a Level Editor)
Level Items and Ingame Events (Implementation and Synchronization Between Game and Editor)
Software Architecture (Programming Lead)
Tool Programmer (Design and Implementation of a Level Editor)
Level Items and Ingame Events (Implementation and Synchronization Between Game and Editor)
In One Sentence:
Simetry is a 2.5D platformer, where the level consists of quads and triangles the player can harvest and use to recreate new elements for solving puzzles or reaching new areas.
Simetry is a 2.5D platformer, where the level consists of quads and triangles the player can harvest and use to recreate new elements for solving puzzles or reaching new areas.
Realized Between 03/2011 and 06/2012 in a Team of 11 (Scrum)
Award: Ubisoft Blue Byte Newcomer Award, second place at German Developer Award (2013)
Used Framework: Unity
Resources: Website
Responsibilities:
Character Movement
Event System for Cutscenes and Main Menu
Organizing Storage of Game Data
Software Engineering and Refactoring
Character Movement
Event System for Cutscenes and Main Menu
Organizing Storage of Game Data
Software Engineering and Refactoring
In One Sentence:
The Balloon Quest is a platformer, which revolves around the development of a boy and his sister, who live through adventures together and have to learn how to cooperate as they are diving further and further into their own fantasy world.
The Balloon Quest is a platformer, which revolves around the development of a boy and his sister, who live through adventures together and have to learn how to cooperate as they are diving further and further into their own fantasy world.
Realized Between 03/2010 and 03/2011 in a Team of 18
Used Framework: UDK
Resources: Website
Responsibility:
Implementation of the Camera Logic
Implementation of the Camera Logic
In One Sentence:
Sidelives is a 3rd person game, where you fight against a dark mass called VOID while participating in a contest you're not allowed to sleep.
Sidelives is a 3rd person game, where you fight against a dark mass called VOID while participating in a contest you're not allowed to sleep.
Realized Between 11/2010 and 01/2011 in a Team of 5
Used Framework: XNA
Resources: Source Code
Responsibilities:
Implementation of a Tile Based Level Editor
Development of Algorithms for Enemy's Path Finding and Line of Sight
Level Design
Implementation of a Tile Based Level Editor
Development of Algorithms for Enemy's Path Finding and Line of Sight
Level Design
In One Sentence:
Stealth Granny is a humorous approach of creating a tile based stealth game, where the player is controlling an old woman trying to escape from a retirement home.
Stealth Granny is a humorous approach of creating a tile based stealth game, where the player is controlling an old woman trying to escape from a retirement home.
"Paper"
Realized Between 04/2010 and 06/2011, 02/2011 and 03/2011, 12/1014 and 01/2015
Responsibilities:
Idea and Design
Usage of Effective Data Structures Due to an Huge Amount of Physical Bodies
Development of Wrappers for a 2D-Engine and for Box2D for SDL
Tool Programming for Fast Extraction of Letter Structures
Idea and Design
Usage of Effective Data Structures Due to an Huge Amount of Physical Bodies
Development of Wrappers for a 2D-Engine and for Box2D for SDL
Tool Programming for Fast Extraction of Letter Structures
In One Sentence:
"Paper" is an idea, which has been re-implemented several times and features the idea of destructible letter structures, which are used to tell stories about their fate.
"Paper" is an idea, which has been re-implemented several times and features the idea of destructible letter structures, which are used to tell stories about their fate.
Realized Between 10/2005 and 10/2009 during my work for TAB-Austria
Used Frameworks: Internally Developed Libraries, Boost
Responsibilities:
Programming and design of over 15 casual games for Silverball- and Fun4Four-Touchdevices
Tight integration of graphics and sounds within given hardware restraints
Programming and design of over 15 casual games for Silverball- and Fun4Four-Touchdevices
Tight integration of graphics and sounds within given hardware restraints
In One Sentence:
During my work for TAB-Austria I realized a wide variety of casual games (from Match 3 games up to card games as Texas Hold'em), which have been implemented in small teams (me as programmer, one 2D artist and one sound designer).
During my work for TAB-Austria I realized a wide variety of casual games (from Match 3 games up to card games as Texas Hold'em), which have been implemented in small teams (me as programmer, one 2D artist and one sound designer).
Realized Between 06/2013 and 07/2014 in a Team of 13
Used Framework: Leap Motion SDK
Resources: Source Code, Facebook Page
In Two Sentences:
Anton was a multimedia installation being exhibited at Residenzgalerie Salzburg between July and November 2014 with the goal to use multimedia installations for delivering knowledge about the baroque era. Several projects were realized where I was responsible for the programming of an installation where the visitor can rotate a 3D scene of a projected still life painting using his or her fingers.
Anton was a multimedia installation being exhibited at Residenzgalerie Salzburg between July and November 2014 with the goal to use multimedia installations for delivering knowledge about the baroque era. Several projects were realized where I was responsible for the programming of an installation where the visitor can rotate a 3D scene of a projected still life painting using his or her fingers.
Realized Between 03/2006 and 08/2007
Awards:
NWVault's Hall of Fame Award for both Asylum: A Bet, A Corpse and Asylum: A Corpse, A Vote
NWVault's Hall of Fame Award for both Asylum: A Bet, A Corpse and Asylum: A Corpse, A Vote
Used Framework: Electron Toolset
Responsibilities:
Story-, Sound- and Leveldesign
Scripting
Story-, Sound- and Leveldesign
Scripting
In One Sentence:
Asylum is a twisted tale about loosing the touch to reality with strong focus on sound design and bringing the Electron engine to its limits by for instance displaying strange locations with strong lighting or hacking collision meshes to create translucent walls of water.
Asylum is a twisted tale about loosing the touch to reality with strong focus on sound design and bringing the Electron engine to its limits by for instance displaying strange locations with strong lighting or hacking collision meshes to create translucent walls of water.
Realized Between 03/2007 and 04/2007
Used Framework: Electron Toolset
Resources: Download
Responsibilities:
Story-, Sound- and Leveldesign
Scripting
Story-, Sound- and Leveldesign
Scripting
In One Sentence:
Being Good was my entry for Obsidian's module contest about fairy tales (4th place out of more than 20 entries), where I used my experience gathered from Asylum to create another unique story in a twisted - yet coherent - world.
Being Good was my entry for Obsidian's module contest about fairy tales (4th place out of more than 20 entries), where I used my experience gathered from Asylum to create another unique story in a twisted - yet coherent - world.
Undone Memories
work in progress
Undone Memories is a dark tale about guilt and redemption, loosely inspired by Love Exposure, Frankenstein or Enter the Void. Here, I also experiment around with an alternative way in representing interactive dialogs.
545
work in progress
545 is a small experiment displaying images by letters, telling the story of a "thing" gaining awareness of its own existence and being scared of the emerging world of possibilites. A small prototype has been implemented using LimeJS (source code), but I'm currently looking for an alternative engine being able to render a high amount of fonts with high frame rates on multiple platforms.
Irre
finished 2010
Irre is a short German theatre play, which has been staged at the festival Salzburger Filmtage in 2010.
Planescape: Purgatorio
discontinued 2008
Because of my work for Asylum I have been recruited by the modding team Rogue Dao to design and write content for Planescape: Purgatorio. Unfortunately, the full project was never released.
Asylum
finished 2007
This is the full original script of my Neverwinter Nights 2 modification Asylum. Please note that several dialog has been revised during development.
Being Good
finished 2007
This is the full original script of my Neverwinter Nights 2 modification Being Good. Please note that some dialog has been revised and enhanced during development.
A Beautiful Nightmare
finished 2006
A Beautiful Nightmare was my first attempt in writing dialog for a game. It is about a person trying to figure out details of a traumatic event that happened in his or her past.
Context-Sensitive Alerting and Reminding on Mobile Devices
Master Thesis, finished 2014
Content: Extraction of contextual clues for measuring the disruptiveness of interruptions on mobile devices based on study data and delivering implementation suggestions for context-aware alerting and reminding tools
Gesture Recognition for Vision Based Interaction
Bachelor Thesis, finished 2012
Content: Comparison and implementation of various algorithms detecting gestures and fingertip positions using the Kinect
Mesh Simplification
Bachelor Thesis, finished 2012
Content: Comparison of mesh simplification algorithms in the context of user generated content within a 3D online game