Clint Hobson

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ABOUT ME

Senior game developer with nearly 20 years experience

I'm looking forwards to helping you with your coding woes, whether it be simple questions or fixing critical issues in your project.

I've been employed at various game development studios and have experience in multiple coding languages and game engines. I've also enjoyed 5 years of teaching as the lead programming tutor at a local college.

I have a broad history of experience to draw from:

Popular game engines such as Unity, Unreal, or Godot, or lesser known ones such as Defold and Haxe.
Popular frameworks like SDL, SFML, or more niche ones like LÖVE or Kha
And a variety of languages including C, C++, C#, Java, Python, Lua, PHP, HTML5, CSS, and jQuery.

Helping people understand something new is an extremely rewarding experience for me. I look forwards to sharing my passion for programming with you.

Brisbane (+10:00)

Joined February 2019

EXPERTISE

C# unity

10 years experience

Released my game "HopSquash" on the Nintendo Switch eStore, developed in Unity. https://ec.nintendo.com/AU/en/titles/70010000068441 Optim...

Released my game "HopSquash" on the Nintendo Switch eStore, developed in Unity. https://ec.nintendo.com/AU/en/titles/70010000068441 Optimised slowdown issues for "My Mini Mart" (Kiseki Games) on the Android app store, and added various features to My Mini Mart, and their sequel, Busy Buffet.

C++

2 years experience

Debugging and feature implementation for various games at various game Studios such as Halfbrick Studios (Nintendo DS games such as Rasku...

Debugging and feature implementation for various games at various game Studios such as Halfbrick Studios (Nintendo DS games such as Raskulls, Gameboy Advance games including Avatar the Last Airbender). Made a custom game launcher for DIY arcade cabinets using multithreading and SDL.

Python 3

3 years experience

Created home made invoice creator which outputs to RTF document, and created a booking system for an event management company.

Lua Game Development

5 years experience

Have created "Alex Kidd Pico" https://domarius-games.itch.io/alex-kidd-in-pico-world Also developing a currently unreleased game, using t...

Have created "Alex Kidd Pico" https://domarius-games.itch.io/alex-kidd-in-pico-world Also developing a currently unreleased game, using the Defold engine.

Unreal Engine

1 year experience

Have worked with Blueprints and C++ for a VR prototype on the HTC Vive.

Godot Engine

5 years experience

Released my game "HopSquash" on the Steam store, developed in Godot. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1012450/HopSquash/

Git

10 years experience

All of my projects use source control of some form throughout the years, I've settled on Git after being through Mercurial and SVN over t...

All of my projects use source control of some form throughout the years, I've settled on Git after being through Mercurial and SVN over the years.

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SOCIAL PRESENCE

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EMPLOYMENTS

Lead Programmer

Kiseki Games

2023-11-01-2024-03-01

- Refactoring existing codebase for extensibility. - Implement "First Time User Experience" system that allowed designers to construct th...

- Refactoring existing codebase for extensibility. - Implement "First Time User Experience" system that allowed designers to construct their own "tutorial" for the user, set the user tasks to complete and pop up instructions and indicators for what to interact with. - Save system / Cloud Save added to store game state locally in a compact byte format, and allow it to sync to cloud. - New system to manage NPC "employees" in the game, to hire them, assign them to tasks, upgrade their abilities with cards. Also refactored the NPC codebase to make it extensible.

C# unity

File systems

C# unity

File systems

Lead Programmer

Kiseki Games

2022-03-01-2022-03-01

- Performance optimisation: testing to narrow down memory leaks, and other wasted resources. Implemented various fixes and improvements ...

- Performance optimisation: testing to narrow down memory leaks, and other wasted resources. Implemented various fixes and improvements - New feature for designers to manage the player's progress through the game by editing a spreadsheet file which the game interprets directly via CSV. This was to replace a time consuming system that required them to link individual objects back and forth to each other within the Unity scene.

C# unity

Programming Tutor

Evocca College

2012-11-01-2016-07-01

- One of 3 staff members who developed the programming units for the course “Digital and Interactive Games” - Developed programming lesso...

- One of 3 staff members who developed the programming units for the course “Digital and Interactive Games” - Developed programming lessons with practical examples and projects to complete (small video games) - Taught C# using console applications in Visual Studio, and Unity

C++

Visual Studio

C++

Visual Studio

C# unity

PROJECTS

Domarius Games websiteView Project

Domarius Games

2025

I developed my own website using HTML5 and CSS3

HTML5/CSS3

HopSquash!View Project

Domarius Games

2024

HopSquash is a local multiplayer game for social gatherings that I released on Windows, Mac, Linux and Nintendo Switch. Developing for N...

HopSquash is a local multiplayer game for social gatherings that I released on Windows, Mac, Linux and Nintendo Switch. Developing for Nintendo Switch required approval from Nintendo and the purchase of a Nintendo Switch development kit.

C# unity

File systems

C# unity

File systems