About
Tiusanen Consulting provides small scale game development consulting and subcontracting.
Curriculum Vitae
- Mikko Tiusanen
- 5th April 1981
Work Experience
- Independent Consultant
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Senior Engineer - Reforged Studios Ltd
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I worked on various parts of the company's own game engine, among other things:
- Added features to the particle system implementation.
- Implemented a sound system on top of OpenAL.
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Participated in various projects the company did for Next Games
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I worked on both game client and server implementations for Nitro: Drift Racing released for both iOS and Android.
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Senior Developer - Kuuasema Ltd
- Intervisio Midaksen kosketus (tv game) (2012, PC) - Main Programmer
- Intervisio Midaksen kosketus web version (2012, Web) - Main Programmer, implemented Java to Flash conversion for Kuuasema's own platform
- Nokia Modern Mayor (2014, Windows Phone) - Main Programmer
- Sanoma / Disney The Duckforce Rises (2015) - Programmer
- Fortum Clean Power (2016) - Main Programmer
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Senior Developer - Star Arcade Ltd
I worked on several parts of the Star Arcade client library:
- I wrote a custom platform independent widget system on top of the company's own mobile graphics platform.
- I wrote a network socket abstraction for Linux and iOS.
- I implemented Google+ login functionality.
- Implemented a platform independent build system for various mobile platforms.
- In addition I also wrote various helper scripts for internal use.
The library was used in most games published by Star Arcade Ltd during the period, including:
I also set up and maintained the internal Subversion repository and Bugzilla instance.
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Co-founder, Project Manager, Programmer - Silverquill Ltd
I participated in the development of Iron Sky: Operation Highjump:
- I developed an XML based system for writing and maintaining character dialogs.
- I wrote a web application for easy testing of the dialogs without running the game application.
- The web application also included support for generating Lua and later C# source code for the dialogs for inclusion in the game.
- I participated in the C#-based dialog system implementation for Unity 3D.
I also implemented support for loading skeletal animations using the assimp library on the early prototypes of the game implemented on top of Frozenbyte's game engine.
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Co-founder, Programmer - Alternative Games Ltd
I developed a game launcher and installer for the linux version of Trine.
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Co-founder, CTO - IGIOS Ltd
I worked as a project manager and programmer for the linux versions of:
Both were total conversions from a windows Direct3D application to linux using SDL, OpenGL and fmod (later replaced by OpenAL)I also developed a 3D presentation platform (Linux, Windows) on top of SDL, OpenGL and OpenAL and wrote some utility applications for it using the GTK+-library.
In addition I wrote scene export scripts to the Blender 3D modelling software and worked on some smaller game development related subcontracting projects.
- Developer - University of Jyväskylä Information Management Centre I developed several smaller web based applications while performing the mandatory (in Finland) Civil Service, including:
- Programmer (working from home) - University of Helsinki Center for Microfilming and Conservation I remotely maintained and further developed the database import Perl application.
- Data Systems Designer - University of Helsinki Center for Microfilming and Conservation More Perl scripts for importing collections of processed material into the databases and for formatting and processing large amounts of text. I also developend a more generic version of the database import application.
- Programmer - University Of Jyväskylä - Agora Virtual Environment Center I participated in the development of a truck driving simulator for CAVE environments.
- Programmer (working from home) - University of Helsinki Centre for Microfilming and Conservation I remotely maintained the metadata-application I had written between 2000 and 2001. I also developed a perl-application for importing the OCR processed pages into the database. In addition I developed some smaller perl scripts.
- Data Systems Designer - University of Helsinki Centre for Microfilming and Conservation I developed an application for attaching metadata to OCR processed newspaper pages. Later the same functionality was implemented in the OCR software in use and the application became unnecessary. In addition I developed some smaller perl scripts for filtering the OCR processed data before importing it into the databases.
Education
- Studies in Computer Science - University of Jyväskylä
- Undergraduate - Mikkelin Yhteiskoulun lukio
Spoken Languages
- Native Finnish
- Very good written and spoken English
- A little bit of Swedish
- I understand a few words of French and German
Hobby Projects
- I implemented real-time player stats originally for Tremulous but due to game logging format only usable for Tremulous GPP/1.2 and Unvanquished. The implementation is done completely in Perl using a MariaDB database backend with the web application implemented using Dancer.
- A modification to Tremulous. I maintained and further developed an existing older mod for the game. I also sponsored and maintained servers and a forum for the mod.
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A custom engine for war games on top of height map based modifiable terrain. Terrain editing and object placement was done in Blender.
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Key Skills
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- and relational databases, some experience in databases.
- Performance optimization and software architecture