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I'm a Game Developer specializing in Unity and C# with an MS in Computer Science. I build modular AI, boss mechanics, event-driven gameplay, and performance-optimized 2D action games. I enjoy designing robust systems, state-based AI, and scalable gameplay mechanics, delivering polished, performant interactive experiences. I'm passionate about leading cross-disciplinary teams and turning research ideas into playable, polished experiences, with experience in human-robot interaction studies, ML-based web apps, and mobile development.…I'm a Game Developer specializing in Unity and C# with an MS in Computer Science. I build modular AI, boss mechanics, event-driven gameplay, and performance-optimized 2D action games. I enjoy designing robust systems, state-based AI, and scalable gameplay mechanics, delivering polished, performant interactive experiences. I'm passionate about leading cross-disciplinary teams and turning research ideas into playable, polished experiences, with experience in human-robot interaction studies, ML-based web apps, and mobile development.

Michael Bryant

Game Developer, Web Developer, Full Stack Developer, +2

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I'm a Game Developer specializing in Unity and C# with an MS in Computer Science. I build modular AI, boss mechanics, event-driven gameplay, and performance-optimized 2D action games. I enjoy designing robust systems, state-based AI, and scalable gameplay mechanics, delivering polished, performant interactive experiences. I'm passionate about leading cross-disciplinary teams and turning research ideas into playable, polished experiences, with experience in human-robot interaction studies, ML-based web apps, and mobile development.…I'm a Game Developer specializing in Unity and C# with an MS in Computer Science. I build modular AI, boss mechanics, event-driven gameplay, and performance-optimized 2D action games. I enjoy designing robust systems, state-based AI, and scalable gameplay mechanics, delivering polished, performant interactive experiences. I'm passionate about leading cross-disciplinary teams and turning research ideas into playable, polished experiences, with experience in human-robot interaction studies, ML-based web apps, and mobile development.

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I’m a Game Developer specializing in Unity and C# with an MS in Computer Science. I build modular AI, boss mechanics, event-driven gameplay, and performance-optimized 2D action games. I enjoy designing robust systems, state-based AI, and scalable gameplay mechanics, delivering polished, performant interactive experiences.

I’m passionate about leading cross-disciplinary teams and turning research ideas into playable, polished experiences, with experience in human-robot interaction studies, ML-based web apps, and mobile development.

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Work Experience

Game Developer at Grave Robber (Personal Project)

January 1, 2025 - Present

Built a 2D action-adventure game in Unity (C#) featuring modular enemy AI, boss battle systems, and scalable gameplay architecture. Implemented state-based AI with player-seeking logic, cooldown-based attacks, and randomized audio behavior. Engineered a complex boss battle with melee, ranged magic, summoning, and synchronized animation events. Developed modular spawning and UI systems, optimized animation-driven collider activation, and managed game state transitions, menus, and audio.

Project Lead at Tempo Social Robot (Colorado School of Mines)

January 1, 2025 - Present

Led a multidisciplinary research team in the design, implementation, and evaluation of Tempo, a socially interactive humanoid robot deployed as a front-desk assistant in a ballroom dance studio. Coordinated research design, robot behavior, experimental protocol, data collection and analysis; delivered high-impact presentations and maintained Open Science Framework records.

Machine Learning Engineer at Colorado School of Mines – News Classification

January 1, 2025 - Present

Developed a Multinomial Naive Bayes classifier with TF-IDF features to classify articles into real, fake, or satire with 96% accuracy. Executed data cleaning, preprocessing, model training, evaluation, and hyperparameter tuning.

Data Analyst / Team Lead at Colorado School of Mines – Global Happiness

January 1, 2025 - Present

Cleaned and integrated multiple datasets to evaluate hypotheses on global tax rates, happiness indices, and social investments. Created dendrograms, sunburst diagrams, Sankey diagrams, radial bar charts, and choropleth maps; managed a team of three, maximizing cohesion and productivity.

Mobile App Developer at TOPBOX

January 1, 2025 - Present

Designed and developed TOPBOX, a mobile fitness companion app with MVVM architecture, multiple TTS APIs, Firebase Authentication, Firestore, and external APIs. Managed end-to-end lifecycle and produced a promotional site and video.

Web App Developer at Autonomous Cocktail Generator

January 1, 2024 - Present

Led development as Scrum Master; built an AI-powered web app that generates cocktail recipes from ingredients or images using OpenAI GPT-4o Vision and GPT-4. Implemented a responsive UI with Vue.js and Quasar; managed state with Pinia and delivered a polished product with warnings for ingredient toxicity.

Machine Learning / Data Scientist at Colorado School of Mines – Digit Recognizer

January 1, 2024 - Present

Engineered a high-accuracy MNIST digit recognizer (97.92%) and evaluated KNN vs SVM with preprocessing, along with hyperparameter tuning and exploratory CNN considerations for future work.

Web App Developer at Colorado School of Mines – Algorithm Design

January 1, 2024 - Present

Applied dynamic programming and graph theory to optimization problems; implemented recursive and bottom-up DP solutions; modeled traversal constraints via graph algorithms and demonstrated efficient Python implementations with visualizations.