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David Porter

Redmon,WA

Summary

Quality Director experienced in developing in pre-made and custom game engines. Dedicated to upholding a healthy and productive work environment for all team members. Comfortable working with small and large teams. Knowledge in creating and updating quality assurance documents and spreadsheets.

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience

Work History

Quality Director

Remanence – First Person Sword Fighting
09.2023 - Current
  • Created weekly builds to track progress and guarantee stable playtesting experience
  • Worked with team to create checklists of weekly goals
  • Helped organize a team of 18 people in Unreal Engine
  • Quality Assurance

Elemental Surge
05.2023 - 09.2023
  • 2-D Platformer
  • Ran weekly playtests for levels to identify areas of high difficulty
  • Modified level layouts to make gameplay smoother
  • Consulted teammates on gameplay mechanics.

Collision and Physics Engineer

Chlorofell – Top-Down Shooter
08.2022 - 04.2023
  • Refined collision detection system to register hits and wall collisions more accurately
  • Devised how the lighting system would cast shadows and how those shadows would interact with environments
  • Investigated improvements for both physics and collisions at low frame rates.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science and Game Design -

DigiPen Institute of Technology
Redmond, WA
04.2025

Skills

  • Knowledge in using C, C, C#, and Excel for developing games
  • Communicating bugs to tech teams and quickly finding solutions
  • Building custom game engines
  • Developing custom game engines
  • Interpreting test results to tech and design teams
  • Documenting weekly goals and changes made to game builds
  • Recording weekly quality control tests

Timeline

Quality Director

Remanence – First Person Sword Fighting
09.2023 - Current

Elemental Surge
05.2023 - 09.2023

Collision and Physics Engineer

Chlorofell – Top-Down Shooter
08.2022 - 04.2023

Bachelor of Computer Science and Game Design -

DigiPen Institute of Technology
David Porter