Hello there!
My name is (aka ), I am a 23 year old Computer-Science student from Germany and I am looking to join an established team of developers. I worked with quite some early-stage projects so far but over the time the desire to join a team more advanced in their development progress arised. This should not mean that I am not interested in joining a startup-project - I only would prefer to join a team that is already out of the planning stage. But: Don’t hesitate to try to convince me of anything you want 
I am learning C++ now for over 8 years and would say that what I am best at is designing and planing frameworks for internal processes, class hierarchy and all that neat stuff. I manage to see the whole picture of things, keeping an eye on **extendability **and maintainability. However, I always love to learn the new and also have a slight fetish for engine-modifications to expose nice custom features to the editor and it’s users.
**Why am I the right person to join your team? **
**My dogma: Modularity and extendability. **
Knowing your programming language is only a fraction of what defines the skill of any developer. What’s even more important than raw knowledge - by multiple factors, in my opinion - is the understanding of the grand scheme of things. Being able to see the whole picture and designing frameworks, that allow for flexibility and maintainability.
Dedication
I am a very dedicated person. When I decide to invest my time into a project, it is because I am in love with the idea of it. And then I am dedicated. Beside being able to pay the bills, the most fullfilling part of any job for me is the experience: Getting to know other people, having conversations and working together as a team and sharing knowledge. Being part of a successfull project is worth so much more than the actual money you earn, so I am invested into helping out in every regard. I love to be a real part of the project, if desired help with gameplay and design decisions and all things related to that.
Self-reliance (a.k.a “knowing how to use google”)
Even though I enjoy working as a team, the years of development taught me to analyze and work myself into existing frameworks and environments. I manage to split up problems into small chunks and solve them through independent research - Because at the end of the day, that’s the only time when you actually learn something. When you are confronted with the unknown.
Communication
I am a very communicative person. I love to have a chat about everything, share my knowledge and have insights into the world of other people. Beside programming, I am very interested in psychology and generally don’t like being a one-trick-pony. I try to keep my lifestyle refreshing and healthy - which sometimes can be a harder task than the actual jobs I pursue. I figured, I just love creating. Be it programming, writing or making music. It just happens to be that I suck at later two - Well, the day only has 24 hours for me as well, unfortunately.
Staying power
Development is not always nice and dandy. Realizing that is important. Endurance even more. People often think the beginning of a project is the hardest part. Designing the frameworks and core concepts. That’s the fun part. The real challenges arise as development progresses and all systems start to develop more demands and start to self-integrate. That’s where the framework design really starts to pay off. I already fought my way through this stage multiple times, and probably the hardest challenge so far was my one man project Cuit, which I released earlier this year on Steam, Cuit. It is written with SFML and was in development for 10 months. However, this just goes to show that I already released a game more than anything - the game doesn’t look particularly good, but I am proud of having managed to finish a project alone - Because starting is easy.
My specifications and experience
Languages:
German:
- Speaking: Native
- Writing: Native
- Reading: Native
English:
- Speaking: Good
- Writing: Fluent
- Reading: Fluent
Communication:
Voice & Text
The time I can spend on your project:
Up to 20 hours a week
Payment options:
- Flat Rate or Hourly
- Royalty
- Open for discussions and all kinds of offers - I am a very easy person to talk about financial topics and am very capable of understanding the financial situations of (indie-) game studios.
Experiences:
- 2 year of experience with UE4 (C++ and Blueprint)
- 6 years of professional C++ experience (+3 private)
- Modular framework design - Extend- and maintainability
- 10 months experience with SFML
- Basic knowlege of Python, Java and C#
- Advanced research into patterns of networked client side predictions (LINK)](Physics (Bullet) Client-side prediction - C++ - Epic Developer Community Forums)
- Steam Integration
Unreal Engine 4 related experience:
- Gameplay frameworks
- ->Weapons
- ->Characters
- ->Game Mode Management
- Custom vehicle physics
- Integration and implementation of Bullet-Physics (the physics library, but also actual bullets :D)
- Networking with Physx
- Source-Code modifications
- Slate
- Custom C++ UMG Widgets exposed to editor
- Material Editor (basic)
- Plugin Management
- Source-Controll Management: Perforce, SourceTree, PlasticSCM
- Engine modification
**Now it is YOUR turn. Why is your team the right one for me to join? **
Feel free to convince me of anything, I am happy to learn about all your projects, ideas and ambitions.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask, I am happy to answer them all.
Either answer to this thread or send me a PM. We then can exchange other credentials to move our discussion to our communication platform of choice.
All the best,