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About me

Hello!

I'm Douglas Gavelin, all-round game designer, level designer, full-stack developer and animator. I design, code and animate.

I worked for 12 years as a Full-Stack Web Developer for the online business Personal Planner, with a focus on the frontend. I helped build and maintain both the frontend and backend of the website and handled diverse IT tasks. I also developed three promotional browser games for the site.

I’ve had a lifelong passion for video games and visual media. As a hobby I work on extensive creative side projects in animation and game development. Over the years I’ve made everything from video games, game trailers, 3D animations and wallpapers, to album cover generators and name generators. Along the way I amassed a huge following online.

I'm a recent graduate of the Game Design program at Futuregames in Stockholm, ranked as one of the best game development schools in the world.


Skills

  • Programming: C++, C#, JavaScript, React, PHP, MySQL, GDScript, ActionScript, Unreal Blueprints
  • Game Development: Game design, level design, gameplay programming, prototyping, QA testing
  • Animation / Art: Blender, 3D animation, OpenToonz, 2D animation
  • Web / IT: Full-stack web development, databases, Git, IT system maintenance

Achievements

  • Best Level Design Winner – Orcosmica (2024 Futuregames Awards)
  • Best Design Nomination – Fear of the Light (2024 Swedish Game Awards)
  • Indie Game Success – The Awakening (2M plays)
  • YouTube Channel – 27K+ subscribers
  • 3D Animations – 7M+ combined views
  • Album Cover Generator – 200K+ monthly views
  • Wallpaper Engine Creations – 400K+ users
  • Top Reddit poster – My work is among the most upvoted posts in several gaming subreddits

Contact

You can email me or follow me on:

LinkedIn
YouTube
itch.io


Tools I use

Web design

  • Visual Studio Code
  • PhpStorm
  • Notepad++
  • GitHub
  • Bitbucket
  • SourceTree
  • Azure DevOps
  • Perforce
  • phpMyAdmin
  • HeidiSQL
  • Photoshop
  • TeamViewer
  • FileZilla
  • Figma
  • Jira
  • Miro

Creative / Gaming

  • Unreal Engine
  • Unity
  • Godot
  • Maya
  • Blender
  • OpenToonz
  • Source Filmmaker
  • Substance 3D Painter
  • Premiere Pro
  • After Effects
  • Illustrator
  • Audition
  • Audacity
  • Flash
  • Wallpaper Engine




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