Portfolio - Mirko Koponen contact@detocroix.com

Synopsis (skills and experience)

• 2 years of work experience with game environments and prop art at Housemarque.
• 2 years of gameplay element design and scripting (lua, xml, javascript) at Mountain Sheep.
• 6 years of running independent game development business (Unity and Unreal engine).
• Degree in games, and a partial degree in 3D art.
• Vast knowledge of polygon modelling, normal mapping, hard surface modelling, UV unwrapping, and texturing.
• Excellent Maya, Substance Painter, and Photoshop skills, with a little bit of Max on top and a nice Mudbox core.
• Excellent game engine experience with Unity (used for 8 years) with ability to create games from ground up, to the finish line using C#. Good experience with Unreal Engine (used total of 2 years exclusively) using Blueprints.

Game industry experience

• Housemarque - Dead Nation (PSN, 2010) - Worked as an environment artist and gameplay element designer and scripter.
• Housemarque - Resogun (PSN, 2014) - Initial visual style design, only worked in the project pre-prototype phase.
• Mountain Sheep - Minigore 2 (iOS, 2012) - Event designer.
• Mountain Sheep - Kinghunt (iOS, 2013) - Unity prototyping.
• Mountain Sheep - Bike Baron (iOS) - Level designer.
• Various other game visual prototyping for Housemarque.

Self-employed game development experience

• Phantom Eden (Collaboration, Steam, coming soon in early access).
• Legend of the Knightwasher (Solo, Steam, in-development).
• Monstermon (Browser, 2015) - Art and Game Design.
• Steam Marines (Steam, 2014) - Visual design.
• Dimensional Wayfarer (in-development/status not known) - Visual design.
• Ludum Dare game development compo (solo, 48 hours) - Dungeon Jelly, a Pantless Man with a Clueless Plan, Cubique Noire, Deerfest Tribe.
• Other minigames (solo, less than month to develop) - Amazing Paulsonothon, Paulsonothon, Rustroads.
• Other other minigame (non-solo) - Mein Sheep.

Legend of the Knightwasher - Solo project: Art, programming, and design by me.

Phantom Eden - Collaboration: Design and art by me.

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