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Game Developer
Location
Allentown, PA, United States
Toptal Member Since
December 6, 2021
Andy is a passionate gameplay programmer with extensive experience in full-stack development. He has worked on corporate and freelance projects for over six years with a great understanding of new domains and technical and non-technical clients' goals. Andy is eager to help teams create amazing game experiences and solve real-world problems, bringing creative development projects to life.
Portfolio
bubbl
Unity, Affinity Designer, Aseprite, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitLab, C#.NET...
Chatham Financial
C#.NET, SQL, React, TypeScript, Agile, API Development, API Design, C#
Trifecta Technologies
AngularJS, Bash Script, Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PHP, ExpressionEngine...
Experience
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
C#, Unity, Visual Studio, Postman, SourceTree
The most amazing...
...feeling I've had as a developer was seeing my game Merge on the top of the App Store's paid apps list for a while.
Work Experience
President
2019 - PRESENT
bubbl
- Designed and created Merge, a puzzle game on iOS and Android.
- Managed App Store and Play Store accounts for updates and compliance.
- Deployed an external API to AWS, created scripts to manage player analytics, and managed marketing and sales for the game.
Technologies: Unity, Affinity Designer, Aseprite, Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitLab, C#.NET, Unity3D, Unity2D, C#, API Development, API Design, 2D Games, GitHub
Full-stack Developer
2016 - 2021
Chatham Financial
- Designed, implemented, and tested public and internal APIs defining our core products.
- Pushed company initiatives related to document parsing, semantically versioned APIs, and switching from SVN to Git.
- Led the development of an API for an external client on a tight deadline with changing requirements.
- Researched internal tools to improve developers' efficiency.
- Helped develop company-wide documentation standards both for API documentation and code repository READMEs.
Technologies: C#.NET, SQL, React, TypeScript, Agile, API Development, API Design, C#
Junior Web Developer
2014 - 2016
Trifecta Technologies
- Delivered an AngularJS app while consulting for a Fortune 500 company on time.
- Created an automated process to manage small business website environments with Bash scripts.
- Created onboarding documentation for new developers.
Technologies: AngularJS, Bash Script, Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PHP, ExpressionEngine, API Development, API Design, Ionic
Software Engineer Co-op
2012 - 2013
Honeywell
- Partially automated a process from 80 minutes to ten minutes.
- Refactored, debugged, tested, collected, and analyzed data as a member of the speech-recognition team.
- Presented my research findings to my working group.
Technologies: Perl, C++, C, C#, Perforce
Experience
Merge
https://andrew.beer/s/merge/Merge is a Match-3, 2D puzzle game based on Combine's old flash game.
It uses a 7x7 board and ten colors. When three or more pieces with the same color are matched, they merge into the next color. Each turn, the player receives two colors, may rotate and move them as preferred, and then drop them into the board. Then the player sees the following two colors, which can often lead to changes on the current plan. When three colors are connected vertically, horizontally, or adjacently they disappear and transform into the next color in the sequence shown at the bottom of the game board.
I built and shipped a game on a one-person team, based on a web game I played in the past: programmed all gameplay, created all of the art assets, sound effects, designed new gameplay features, designed and created a REST API in C# for a shared leaderboard hosted on AWS, created and managed an Instagram profile for marketing, and worked with users to gather and implement feedback.
It uses a 7x7 board and ten colors. When three or more pieces with the same color are matched, they merge into the next color. Each turn, the player receives two colors, may rotate and move them as preferred, and then drop them into the board. Then the player sees the following two colors, which can often lead to changes on the current plan. When three colors are connected vertically, horizontally, or adjacently they disappear and transform into the next color in the sequence shown at the bottom of the game board.
I built and shipped a game on a one-person team, based on a web game I played in the past: programmed all gameplay, created all of the art assets, sound effects, designed new gameplay features, designed and created a REST API in C# for a shared leaderboard hosted on AWS, created and managed an Instagram profile for marketing, and worked with users to gather and implement feedback.
Second Dinner: The Game
https://andybeers.itch.io/seconddinnerSecond Dinner is a small action game written as part of a job application to Second Dinner, the game studio. You play as Fud, a small little monster who loves to eat. The game is split into two parts, The Meals and Second Dinner.
The Meals: Players have three different meals, Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. Each meal focuses on the players consuming (collecting) only the food that corresponds to that meal. Players get one point for each "good" food they eat.
Second Dinner: With all his points from The Meals, the players now have to get to Second Dinner and avoid overeating on the way! Each food they collect subtracts from their current score. If they lose all their points before reaching the Second Dinner, they lose. Otherwise, they win!
I designed and programmed a full game in 48 hours, including original art and sound effects.
The Meals: Players have three different meals, Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner. Each meal focuses on the players consuming (collecting) only the food that corresponds to that meal. Players get one point for each "good" food they eat.
Second Dinner: With all his points from The Meals, the players now have to get to Second Dinner and avoid overeating on the way! Each food they collect subtracts from their current score. If they lose all their points before reaching the Second Dinner, they lose. Otherwise, they win!
I designed and programmed a full game in 48 hours, including original art and sound effects.
Crypto API
https://github.com/bosstweed11/CryptoAPIAPI to get current and historic crypto prices. The goal is to analyze correlations between cryptocurrencies and research their performance over time.
I built this API for my own needs and completed it over the course of one month.
I built this API for my own needs and completed it over the course of one month.
Skills
Languages
C#.NET, SQL, TypeScript, Java, Python, C, C#, Bash Script, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, PHP, Perl, C++
Libraries/APIs
API Development, React
Paradigms
Agile
Other
Software Engineering, Documentation, 3D Graphics, Document Parsing, Robotics, APIs, ExpressionEngine, API Design, 2D Games
Frameworks
Unity2D, Unity3D, Unity, AngularJS, Ionic
Tools
Logic Pro, Affinity Designer, Visual Studio, Postman, SourceTree, Perforce, Aseprite, GitLab, GitHub
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Education
2010 - 2014
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Certifications
OCTOBER 2021 - PRESENT
Junior Programmer Pathway
Unity
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