Constantin Ciprian Bacioiu System Designer / Unity C# Developer

Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL INFORMATION Constantin Ciprian Bacioiu

Aleea Tudor Neculai nr 160, bloc C1, ap 4, Iasi, +40 747165981

Sex Male | Date of birth 18 February 1991

PREFERRED JOB System Designer / Unity C# developer

WORK EXPERIENCE Currently running my own game business under the Bearded Giant Game’s brand. I specialize in 03 October 2017 – current developing niche games for Linux as my main business venture while also performing client work and freelancing. https://beardedgiant.games

03 October 2016 – 03 October Home Automation Developer – MiOS 2017 MiOS Romania (www.mios.com) Using Lua, C and a little bit of web Tehnologies I developed, designed or integrated third party technologies into the Vera home automation hub platform. Projects that I was involved with: - Honeywell TCC Thermostat plugin for the vera platform (written from scratch) – Lua - Philips Hue Plugin – updated the plugin to the new Hue API and designed a way to account for network load balance when retrieving the cloud-offered IP address - Highlevel firmware for the Vera G550 (Vera Secure) – Alarm, network monitoring, storage monitoring, battery level and remote notifications - Sercomm IP camera automated video and audio quality checks via their remote POST video recording and my little custom C and Lua based WebServer + ffmpeg for video details and audio dump

21 July 2014 – 02 October 2016 Game / Level Designer and Programmer Mobility-Games (www.mobility-games.com) Game/Level Designer - Frozen Free Fall (July 2014 – October 2016) – Unity 3D Game Designer/Programmer - Beastopia (August 2015 - June 2015. Project completed) – Unity 3D Programmer – Unannounced Management Game (January 2015 – October 2016) – Unity 3D Level Designer – Unannounced Match 3 game (June 2016 – October 2016) – Unity 3D

08 October 2012 – Current Independent Designer/Programmer – Bearded Giant Games Self-Employed For the past ~6 years I have been working on small-scale niche-orientated games. The most notable are Ebony Spire: Heresy – first person rpg , Pimps vs Vampires, a 2D Roguelike set in a procedural generated mansion, Mutant Gangland, a Turn Based Strategy game for PC (Windows, Linux), Mac and Android (Phones and Tablets) and over 20 game jam games.

01 September 2012 – 08 October Freelancer - Game Design - Hacker Evolution: INCEPTION DLC 1 2012 Exosyphen Studios Inception is a new DLC for the latest instalment of the Hacker Evolution series of games, developed and published by Exosyphen Studios. My job was to port and adapt all the levels from the original HE game to the Duality Engine.

01 May 2011 – 17 August 2012 Game Designer Gameloft, Bucharest (Romania) As a Game Designer I have to develop a way to engage the player(s) with fun and immersive gameplay mechanics, feeding them enough challenges and puzzles to keep their interest to a maximum, and frustration nowhere in sight. Projects completed: - NOVA 3, Level Designer Minor involvements: - The Dark Knight Rises (traffic settings, lottery management and VR training package)

21 September 2010 – 01 May QA Engineer 2011 Gameloft, Bucharest (Romania) Quality Assurance engineer at Gameloft Bucharest. Projects I have worked on: - Asphalt 6: Adrenaline - NOVA 2 - Backstab - Star Battalion

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

01 October 2011 – 10 July 2013 Bachelor of Computer Science for Economics Romanian-American University - Computer Science for Business Management, Bucharest (Romania)

Personal Skills

Mother tongue(s) Romanian

Other language(s) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING

Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English C2 C2 C2 C2 C1 Linguistic Competency Exam Spanish C2 C2 B2 B2 A2 Catalan/Valencian B2 B2 B1 A2 A2 French B1 B1 A2 A1 A2 Levels: A1/A2: Basic user - B1/B2: Independent user - C1/C2: Proficient user Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Job-related skills Ability to adapt and work on different Operating Systems I feel right at home working on my projects on either Windows (XP/Vista/7/8) and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora - UNITY, GNOME and KDE window managers). I became a Linux enthusiast in 2006 when I first encountered Ubuntu (6.04) on a newly bought system. Since then I have had a Linux box near my desk at all times.

Ability to learn I consider myself to be a fast learner, especially when it comes down to working with unfamiliar technology or a new spoken language (I picked up Catalan during a 2 months visit in Barcelona and kept improving it by watching TV Shows dubbed in said language).

Analytical skills After finishing a game I usually perform successive playthroughs during which I take my time and experiment with the game's mechanics. I tend to be quite observant and I can differentiate and track down similarities between games of the same genre. It is a skill I have acquired in my early years and polished during my time as a Quality Assurance / Game Tester at Gameloft.

Mobile Development

I find that it's easier to showcase my own projects when they can be deployed / presented in just a few seconds. Even though I, mostly, work on projects aimed to be distributed on a Desktop Operating System I always have a mobile port in my pocket. I was first exposed to mobile development while at Gameloft where I had to work around the limited resources (in terms of hardware) of the targeted platforms. Nowadays I use mostly cross-platform solutions for my games and prototypes and I do my best to ensure that they offer a similar experience on both mobile and desktop. I have a proficient grasp in terms of Mobile UI Design (good practices, recommended UI elements and sizes, interaction and feedback), Mobile Oriented/Focused game mechanics, Control Schemes and Certification Requirements.

Outdoor and Indoor Level Design While working for Gameloft I was tasked with designing and scripting two of the ten levels present in the final game. The levels adhered to a sci fi / fantasy setting and required to deliver a feeling of loneliness and hazard. I was in charge of designing the combat situations for my levels as well as script several action sequences and handle lip synchronization during cutscenes.

Rapid Game Prototyping I take part in frequent 48h game jams during which I study, design and implement game mechanics and, in most cases, I manage to deliver, on time, a "functional" game which adhered to the theme and rules. I find that such sessions allow me to experiment with mechanics and ideas which, under normal circumstances, I do not experience or work with/on.

Computer skills Programming

Working knowledge: Lua, C#

Basic knowledge: C/C++, FreeBASIC

Frameworks, SDK, Game Engines

Working knowledge:

Unity 3D - C#

Lua Based

 MOAI SDK  Love2D

C/C++

 AGK: App Game Kit - TIER 2  MOAI SDK  DarkGDK

Basic knowledge:

 Panda3D  Irrlicht

Integrated Development Environment:

 SUBLIME TEXT 2  Visual Studio Code  Code::Blocks  LDT: Lua Development Tools (eclipse based IDE)

 Mono Develop

Database Processing

Oracle SQL* Plus ( experience gained through university courses) Access ( experience gained through university courses)

Word processing

LibreOffice/OpenOffice Microsoft Office