Senior Game Programmer at Virtual Air Guitar Company Oy
Finland
- Current
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- Cofounder, owner, CEO, CTO at ttursas Ltd.
- Senior Game Programmer at Virtual Air Guitar Company Oy
- Hobbyist programmer at Home
- Past
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- Senior Game Programmer at Rovio Mobile Ltd.
- Game Programmer at Rovio Mobile Ltd.
- Researcher at Init Lab / HUT
- Education
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- Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
- Helsingin Normaalikoulu
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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
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Cofounder, owner, CEO, CTO
ttursas Ltd.
(Computer Games industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
My hobby project. ;) Three published titles for iPhone and iPod Touch: "Perfect Balance: Harmony", "Perfect Balance: Inferno" and "iDrop Dead".
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Senior Game Programmer
Virtual Air Guitar Company Oy
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
I'm currently working on a revolutionary console game in C++...
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Hobbyist programmer
Home
(Computer Software industry)
June 1991 — Present (18 years 6 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. For browser: Drop Dead series, Ball Drop One, Brick Yard, Perfect Balance, etc., AS3 Flash9 games. I've also made small programming gigs to Init Lab/HUT, Rovio Mobile Ltd., Red Lynx and Casual Continent Ltd.
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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++.
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Game Programmer
Rovio Mobile Ltd.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)
April 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 5 months)
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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++.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Helsingin Normaalikoulu
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Ville Helin’s Interests:
Artificial intelligence, programming (consoles, PC), computer & video games, scuba diving
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