Game Director, Unknown Worlds Entertainment
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Navigator at Unknown Worlds Entertainment
- Past
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- Designer, programmer and team lead at Natural Selection
- Game programmer at Stainless Steel Studios
- Game programmer at CogniToy
- Tools programmer at Papyrus
- Co-op at IBM, Research Triangle Park
- Education
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- Case Western Reserve University
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Charlie Cleveland’s Summary
My goal is simple but not easy: to unite the world through play. I believe online games are currently the best way to do this.
We're a small-but-red-hot 4-person company in downtown San Francisco. We just received our Series A round and are hard at work on our third game - Natural Selection 2 (http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2).
Charlie Cleveland’s Specialties:
Game programming, game design, first-person shooters, real-time strategy games
Charlie Cleveland’s Experience
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Navigator
Unknown Worlds Entertainment
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)
January 2004 — Present (4 years 7 months)
Founder of a small game company in San Francisco, CA. We've created the following games and products:
Natural Selection 2 - In development
http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2
Decoda - Lua debugger
http://www.unknownworlds.com/decoda
Zen of Sudoku - Perfect Sudoku
http://www.unknownworlds.com/zen
Natural Selection - The ultimate "marines vs. aliens" experience
http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns
Please contact me if you want to help us unite the (un)known world. -
Designer, programmer and team lead
Natural Selection
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)
March 2001 — September 2006 (5 years 7 months)
Programmer, designer and team leader for Natural Selection (real-time strategy, first-person shooter, PC, 20,000+ players daily, C++).
Completely designed and programmed game. Formed team of ten and directed all aspects of production including art design, sound design, level design, vision communication, game world creation, website, public relations, QA and community development. Ongoing work in balance, accessibility and tournament play. -
Game programmer
Stainless Steel Studios
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)
December 1999 — March 2001 (1 year 4 months)
Game programmer for Empire Earth (real-time strategy, PC, C++). Single and multiplayer save/load, calamity system, area effect system, campaign builder, civilization builder, UI and additional graphics work.
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Game programmer
CogniToy
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)
October 1997 — August 1999 (1 year 11 months)
Game programmer for MindRover (strategy, PC, C++).
Visual programming UI, native bindings for scripting language and API design, weapon system, sound layer, input layer and game design contributions. Vehicle physics and graphics in OpenGL. -
Tools programmer
Papyrus
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)
June 1997 — September 1997 (4 months)
Game tools programmer for Grand Prix Legends (sim, PC, C).
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Co-op
IBM, Research Triangle Park
(Public Company; Computer Games industry)
1995 — 1995 (less than a year)
Charlie Cleveland’s Education
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Case Western Reserve University
B.S., Computer Engineering, 1991 — 1996
Minor in Artificial Intelligence, 1 year co-op at IBM in Research Triangle Park
- Activities and Societies:
- Metal D.J. WRUW
Additional Information
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Charlie Cleveland’s Interests:
Cooking (Indian, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Italian), wine, conversation, film, sci-fi, heavy metal and most other music, design of all kinds, hiking
Charlie Cleveland’s Groups:
Lulu's parties
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Game Developers member
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