Work

Stuff i worked on

Endless Light

Your little candle ventures out on a pilgrimage to the endless light.

Iridos

A real life/vr combination co-op game where you and your companion try to find the treassure in the pyramid of the planet "Iridos"

PantherVR

Serve the "Guild" as a international superspy by heisting all over the world.

Signal sprouts

Use your magical plants to find your way out! - GGJ2023

Pillage of Heroics

A vr game about destroying castles.

Component system recreation C++

A small project where i recreated a component system similar to unity in c++

extra thingys

Meatball Mayhem

A cooking game I made with with swedish students in a gamejam

Custom controller arduino

A small project to make a custom controller for a unity co-op game.

David Janssen

Discord: Davidjans#8008 · davidjejans@hotmail.nl

I just love working with people to make games.

Ambitions

My end goal is to have my own indie. To do that i want to utilise my 4th year of HKU to kickstart my indie by combining the 2 final projects to release a game. I don't care too much about becoming incredibly successfull wealth wise. I just want to end up working with people that i like working with and making games i'm passionate for while earning enough for me and my team to live properly.

Interests

I enjoy playing any type of game. Although most of my time goes into either roguelite's (Dead cells, Hades, Binding of isaac) and tactical games (Divinity original sin, Rimworld, Crusaders kings).
Besides games i am a huge tabletop fanatic. Running multiple campaigns a week(3 atm) in the same world. For physical activity i mainly do airsoft.

Project Roles

In a overall project i usually take a leadership role. Both as a conversation lead and planning.
During the development itself i mainly focus on Tool and gameplay system programming. Making sure it is expandable according to the project scope.
As a extra little thing during more serious projects i also pickup community communication/managment and marketing.

Experience

CEO/Programmer

StackedBeans

Doing some freelance assignments on an off through different sources like personal network and upwork

november 2017 - Present

Programmer

Wolfdog Interactive

Programming at wolfdog interactive

July 2020 - March 2022

Programmer intern

Wolfdog Interactive

Programming internship at wolfdog interactive

february 2020 - July 2020

Student council president

Grafisch lyceum Utrecht

Leading the student council of the "grafisch lyceum Utrecht"

November 2017 - January 2020

SideJobs

Manusje van alles - Golfhorst

Kitchenhelp - Centerparcs

Technical help - Studentaanhuis

Server - Centerparcs

Hosting/oddjobs - HKU

Throughout the years

Education

Grafisch lyceum utrecht

MBO-4

Game-Programmer

november 2017 - june 2021

Hogeschool kunsten utrecht

HBO

Game-Programmer

june 2021 - present

Skills

Game Development

Teamwork

Team managment/leadership,Scrum,Gamejams,International team projects,Extracurricular team projects

Unity - 7 Years

3d,VR,Mobile,Controllers,Arduino input,2d,Tool scripting

C# - 7 Years

OO, Design Patterns, SOLID principles

C++ - 1 Years

Replicating unity's component based system & making my own physics.

Arduino - 3 months

Unity input, Standalone game

WebDevelopment - 3 Years

I made this sites using all of these languages and frameworks.

PHP

Unity input/output,SQL(with unity)

JavaScript

Small games

Bootstrap

Endless light

Date	Category	Engine	Credits
Jul 2022	Project	Unity	Maxym Ebeling
			Orion Keren Puts
			David Kolb
			Merijn Trimbos
			Randy Querreveld

Find your way on the pilgrimage to the endless light

Project Description

Intro text video
Endless light is an adventure story game where you utilise your wax abilities in multiple ways to find your way to the endless light. The endless light is a symbol for the candle people. It has a pull on them and at some point in their life they feel the need to make this pilgrimage. Sadly not all make it through alive. But what awaits them at the end?

Why it started

I didn't have any experience making a narrative game as i was mostly focused on arcady mechanic heavy projects. With this me and my friends wanted to expand out into trying out a narrative experience.

Iridos

Date	Category	Engine	Credits
January 2023	Project	Unity	Orion Keren Puts
			David Kolb
			Thymon
			Maxym Ebeling
			Jasper

Explore the planet of Iridos and try your best to beat all the trials that await you there.

Project Description

Experience intro Cinematic
You and your little buddy try to find the extra mask hidden in burried in the Iridos Pyramid with this irl/vr hybrid experience. You already have one of the masks required to breathe on the resource rich planet. But your little buddy is hiding out in your backpack until you find the second one. But luckily while he is in there he can easily provide you with info maps and puzzle solutions.

Why it started

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PantherVR

Date	Category	Engine	Credits
June 2020	Job	Unity	Wolfdog interactive team

Everything can be stolen. Especially when you are a part of the guild

Project Description

Plan your heist, gear up with weapons and gadgets, and infiltrate in randomly Generated Missions. Go full stealth or guns blazing. PantherVR is all about infiltrating high tech facilities that are heavily guarded with your own gadgets. Hack doors, turrets, communication and anything inbetween.

Signal Sprouts

Date	Category	Engine	Credits
January 2023	Gamejam	Unity	Me
			Amy Schoor
			Sophie Baptist
			Joshua

Use your magical flowers to find your way out of your magically possesed farm.

Project Description

Harness the magic of plants and break free from the enchanted garden. With his trusty bouquet of special flowers, farmer Harold will embark on a journey full of puzzles and excitement. Use the power of your blooms to send the perfect signals and make the right connections. Every flower has a unique impact on both the surroundings and other flowers. Get ready to become the master of the garden and make your escape.

Why it started

Because i participated in the GGJ 2023.

Pillage of heroics

Date	Category	Engine	Credits
Ongoing	Project	Unity	Seif
			Jay
			Samantha

Ever wanted to destroy castles of corrupt kings by hurling boulders at them? Now is your chance!

Project Description

In this game you get to destroy castles to your hearts content. When you spawn into a level you get a set ammount of things you can use(catapult,slingshot,your hands). Every object that gets thrown towards the castle counts towards the things you fired. The more things you need to fire to destroy the castle the lower your rating gets.

Why it started

This project started as a extra curricilar activity for my group specifically to create something to showcase at events. We quickly fell in love with the project and wanted to work on it more. With other assignments at the same time we are steadily making progress on this project.

What i hope to learn / learned

As this will eventually be a finished game i would love for this to be my first experience actually releasing a game. This is also a project which we are working with a "Customer"(School) where they have set things they do not want and do want which also helps me learn how to interact with a customer.

What is/was the goal

The goal for this project is to release a working game onto the market to gain both experience with developing for a customer and get experience releasing my own game.

C++ Component system recreation

Date	Category	Engine	Credits
June 2022	Experiment	Custom c++ with sfml	Me

A quick tryout recreating unity's scene and componentsystem in c++

Project Description

This is just a quick little project to replicate unity's component based system in c++.

What i hope to learn / learned

I really wanted to learn the basics of c++ since the memory managment aspect of it is a lot different to c#. As this was my first c++ test i kept it pretty simple.
I also wanted to learn make/disect a "Engine structure" by replicating a component based system.

Meatball Mayhem

Date	Category	Engine	Credits
april 2019	Gamejam	Unreal Engine	Me
			Seif
			Heimer
			Simon

Serve meatballs prepared with magical tulips to grumpy ikea customers!

Project Description

Meatball Mayhem is all about serving those darned grumpy customers the meatballs they want. Hurry and serve them before they feel like talking to the manager!

Why it started

Meatball Mayhem is a small gamejam game I/we made in sweden working with swedish university students. The theme for the gamejam was meatballs and tulips so we decided to make a cooking game where you cook the meatballs using magical tulips

What i hope to learn / learned

I learned to work with unreal and c++ blueprints. It was also a great learning excperience to work with international university students and compare my level to theirs.

What is/was the goal

To make a playable game working with swedish students.

Private repo sadly.

Custom controller arduino

Date	Category	Engine	Credits
June 2022	Unity	Arduino	Just Me

Properly communicate with your partner to platform your way to the end!

Why it started

There was an assignment to do something interactible with an arduino. I really wanted to do this with something i might be able to actually use, so i decided to make a custom controller for unity.

What i hope to learn / learned

I hoped to learn how to make a proper interaction with unity through arduino in case i had a larger interactive idea that would require this type of connection.