Ville Helin

Current

• Software Engineer at Virtual Air Guitar Company Oy
• Hobbyist programmer at Home (Self-employed)

Past

• Senior Game Programmer at Rovio Mobile Ltd.
• Game Programmer at Rovio Mobile Ltd.
• Researcher at Init Lab / HUT

• Research assistant at Init Lab / HUT
• Programmer at Napa Oy
• Technical assistant at TUTA / HUT
• Programmer at Napa Oy
• Programmer at Tekla Oy

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Education

• Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
• Helsingin Normaalikoulu

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Games

Websites

• My Website

Ville Helin’s Summary

My goal is to program unique games for new and exciting platforms! I've been programming since I was a kid, on my free time, and later also at work.

Ville Helin’s Specialties:

AI programming, 2D/3D programming (software rendering on Amiga, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, native Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS), C, J2ME, assembly languages (Z80, 680x0, ARM).

Ville Helin’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Virtual Air Guitar Company Oy

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2008 — Present (7 months)

  I'm currently working on a XBox360 title in C# and C++...

• Hobbyist programmer

  Home (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  June 1991 — Present (17 years 4 months)

  I've also coded various programs on my free time. Here are some examples. For Amiga: software 3D renderers, a Gameboy emulator (Wzonka-Lad), demos and intros, simple puzzle games, etc., all in 680x0 ASM. For Linux: tools, a multiplatform macro assembler (WLA DX), a multiplayer network 3D game engine, GLSL/HLSL shader tests, etc. using SDL, OpenGL, GTK, libvorbis, OpenAL, C. For Nintendo DS: a multiplayer aeroplane game (Explosion of an Aeroplane), RFC-1951 data compressor/decompressor, in C & ARM ASM. For PSP: a 3D Tetris clone, in C. For Win32: ports of my programs, e.g. WLA DX and OpenGL/SDL stuff. I've also made small programming gigs to Init Lab/HUT, Rovio Mobile Ltd., Red Lynx and Casual Continent Ltd.

• Senior Game Programmer

  Rovio Mobile Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

  August 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 7 months)

  Lead programmer in five J2ME games, plus lead programmer in one Nintendo DS / Win32 / Linux / J2ME game. Maintainer of code pool for the programmers, helping hand / prototype / engine programmer in some other projects. Briefly used JSR-184, C# and C++.

• Game Programmer

  Rovio Mobile Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

  April 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 5 months)

• Researcher

  Init Lab / HUT

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  March 2004 — March 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  Lead programmer in Init Lab's EU project m-LOMA where I programmed e.g. a distributed PVS calculator, and a server and a 3D map viewer client (OpenGL, OpenGL ES, SDL). Clients for Win32, Linux, Mac OSX and WinCE could be compiled from the same C source tree. Later other guys turned this into C++.

• Research assistant

  Init Lab / HUT

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  July 2003 — February 2004 (8 months)

  Lead programmer in Init Lab's EU project Tellmaris. Programmed e.g. a 2D/3D map data preprocessor, and a 3D map viewer client with support for GPS. OpenGL, OpenGL ES, SDL. The client could be compiled for Linux, Win32 and WinCE from the same C source tree.

• Programmer

  Napa Oy

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 2 months)

  Part time programming job while studying. OpenGL, ODBC, C, Fortran77, Perl. For example, ported the company's CAD software to Linux from Solaris.

• Technical assistant

  TUTA / HUT

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  December 2000 — May 2002 (1 year 6 months)

  Part time job while studying. Computer sysadmin tasks, and PHP/MySQL programming.

• Programmer

  Napa Oy

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1999 — February 2001 (1 year 9 months)

  Part time programming job while studying. OpenGL and VRML, C.

• Programmer

  Tekla Oy

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1998 — May 1999 (1 year)

  Part time programming job while studying. Mostly bug fixing, C.

Ville Helin’s Education

• Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan

  M.Sc. (Tech.), Computer science, interactive digital media, 1996 — 2003

  Used C, C++, J2SE, Scheme, Javascript, VRML, OpenGL, Matlab and X in the various programming assignments at the university.

• Helsingin Normaalikoulu

Additional Information

Ville Helin’s Websites:

• My Website

Ville Helin’s Interests:

Artificial intelligence, programming (consoles, PC), computer & video games, scuba diving

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