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I am a seasoned developer with a successful track record of making and publishing games across a wide variety of genres throughout my decade-long career, including 6 commercially published titles across multiple platforms. As an avid fan of tabletop war games & RPGs, I spend much of my time developing strategies and scenarios to punish my players in the brutal campaigns I runs. I always bring my detail-oriented mindset to game design, where I specialise in systems-oriented games built from intricate webs of overlapping mechanics. Oh, and standing at 7 feet tall, I'm probably the longest game dev you’ll ever meet. If you want to see my work in action, please consider visiting my portfolio: jackpilz.online…I am a seasoned developer with a successful track record of making and publishing games across a wide variety of genres throughout my decade-long career, including 6 commercially published titles across multiple platforms. As an avid fan of tabletop war games & RPGs, I spend much of my time developing strategies and scenarios to punish my players in the brutal campaigns I runs. I always bring my detail-oriented mindset to game design, where I specialise in systems-oriented games built from intricate webs of overlapping mechanics. Oh, and standing at 7 feet tall, I'm probably the longest game dev you’ll ever meet. If you want to see my work in action, please consider visiting my portfolio: jackpilz.online

Jack Pilz

Game Designer, Game Developer, Programmer

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I am a seasoned developer with a successful track record of making and publishing games across a wide variety of genres throughout my decade-long career, including 6 commercially published titles across multiple platforms. As an avid fan of tabletop war games & RPGs, I spend much of my time developing strategies and scenarios to punish my players in the brutal campaigns I runs. I always bring my detail-oriented mindset to game design, where I specialise in systems-oriented games built from intricate webs of overlapping mechanics. Oh, and standing at 7 feet tall, I'm probably the longest game dev you’ll ever meet. If you want to see my work in action, please consider visiting my portfolio: jackpilz.online…I am a seasoned developer with a successful track record of making and publishing games across a wide variety of genres throughout my decade-long career, including 6 commercially published titles across multiple platforms. As an avid fan of tabletop war games & RPGs, I spend much of my time developing strategies and scenarios to punish my players in the brutal campaigns I runs. I always bring my detail-oriented mindset to game design, where I specialise in systems-oriented games built from intricate webs of overlapping mechanics. Oh, and standing at 7 feet tall, I'm probably the longest game dev you’ll ever meet. If you want to see my work in action, please consider visiting my portfolio: jackpilz.online

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I am a seasoned developer with a successful track record of making and publishing games across a wide variety of genres throughout my decade-long career, including 6 commercially published titles across multiple platforms. As an avid fan of tabletop war games & RPGs, I spend much of my time developing strategies and scenarios to punish my players in the brutal campaigns I runs. I always bring my detail-oriented mindset to game design, where I specialise in systems-oriented games built from intricate webs of overlapping mechanics. Oh, and standing at 7 feet tall, I’m probably the longest game dev you’ll ever meet.

If you want to see my work in action, please consider visiting my portfolio: jackpilz.online

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Work Experience

Senior Unity Developer at Devil Juice Studios

December 1, 2023 - Present

A Brisbane-Based games studio that strives to create deep and strategic, yet light-hearted games. Driven by a nostalgia for early 2000’s PC gaming, and inspired by their passion for board games and tabletop games, they endeavour to recapture the low-fidelity charm that defined the era. Key Responsibilities: - Remotely leading team members across several disciplines to produce app architecture, design, and implementation strategies. - Leading the design and implementation of Rob & Roll’s overall code architecture. - Designing and documenting the mechanics and thematics of Rob & Roll (and everything else). - Implementing and integrating a variety of game assets produced by other team members. - Assigning and tracking tasks across team members from various disciplines. - Organising and leading team meetings. - Managing grants and budgets. Additional Achievements: - Showcased a demo of Rob & Roll at PAX Australia 2025 and to several publishers with funding from Screen Australia. - Developed a polished playable prototype of Rob & Roll with funding from Screen Queensland. - Developed a series of highly modular game systems that allowed for incredible flexibility in the design and implementation of our mechanics.

Unity Developer at Future Perfect Digital

November 1, 2024 - November 1, 2025

Future Perfect Digital is a Melbourne-based creative studio specialising in high fidelity interactive 3D and CGI. They work with ambitious brands and agencies to deliver digital experiences that deliver business results. Key Responsibilities: - Developing informative and educational VR experiences from scratch. - Creating and maintaining new and legacy code. - Working closely with 3D artists to create optimised assets and workflows for VR. - Optimising projects to meet rigorous VR performance standards. - Standardising VR input and porting project to other VR platforms. Additional Achievements: - Worked with 3D artists to create a performant version of a model that originally had tens of millions of tris.

Unity Developer at Prosper Education

May 1, 2021 - November 30, 2022

A British education company creating the world’s best learning experiences for young children around the globe. Delivering an entire learning ecosystem teaching English and 21st Century skills. Key Responsibilities: - Working with team members across several disciplines to produce app architecture, design, and implementation strategies. - Designing, building, and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable code. - Maintaining, improving, and overhauling legacy game systems. - Developing tools to support both designers and curriculum creators. - Spearheading designs for a new minigame to target older students. Additional Achievements: - Successfully prototyped, pitched, and began production of a new WarioWare-style expansion for RoyalABC World. - Designing and prototyping a system to correctly generate phonics for our curriculum words (despite the English language's best attempts to stop me).

Unity Developer at Emergeworlds

January 1, 2018 - October 30, 2018

A studio of talented artists, designers and developers are constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible in VR game design. They utilize the latest technology to enrich their experiences, working closely with leading brands in training, education and healthcare. Key Responsibilities: - Designing, refining, and implementing: - Complex core systems across multiple projects. - Core mechanics across multiple projects. - Various development tools. - Refining designs and functionality to better meet or exceed client expectations. - GPU & CPU performance optimisation.

Lead Developer at Handsome Dragon Games

March 1, 2015 - November 30, 2023

Handsome Dragon Games are a group of independent game developers based in Brisbane. We are a team of dedicated developers that have come together to put our all into making games. Brought together during a university project called 'Dyadic', we've now released it and several others onto the market. And we're not stopping here! As Lead Developer, I’m all about designing the game itself and keeping everything on track. As such, my roles consist primarily of designing and refining the mechanics, designing and constructing the levels, as well as making sure everyone else has what they need to complete their assigned tasks, and ensuring the project stay as on schedule as possible. Additionally, I also act as one of the team's core programmers, implementing mechanics and systems, as well as creating the technical specifications for each title. Our first major project 'Dyadic' was Greenlit by the Steam Community and has been released on the Steam storefront as of February 26 2016. Dyadic has also been released on Nintendo Switch as of February 24th 2023.

Unity Developer at Catalyst VR

September 1, 2024 - November 30, 2024

An award-winning creative technology production company that has acted as a trusted partner for agencies, enterprise businesses, government and startups. Key Responsibilities: - Working remotely with team members across several disciplines to produce app architecture, design, and implementation strategies. - Designing, building, and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable code. - Contributing to directing and refining existing code architecture. - Developing dynamic and informative VR experiences. Additional Achievements: - Quickly and proficiently adapted to an unfamiliar MVC-style architecture. - Collaborated with our UI/UX designer to create a slick and smooth series of transitions throughout the experience (I’m not allowed to show you just yet, but trust me - they’re really cool).

Unity Developer at Like A Photon Creative

November 1, 2018 - September 30, 2020

A multi award-winning and internationally acclaimed production company based in Australia. There’s an entire crew of crazy talented Photons on a mission to make beautiful and engaging content for all generations. Key Responsibilities: - Working with team members to produce app architecture, design, and implementation strategies. - Designing, building, and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable code. - Working with backend developers to handle user data and app data storage and synchronisation. - Maintaining, improving, and overhauling legacy game systems. - Building and maintaining dynamic, interactive webpages. Additional Achievements: - Completely overhauled legacy project Kindergo to allow for new content and features to be added in a only a fraction of the previous time. - Designed and implemented a never-null, one-time setup, use anywhere global manager system.