Lauri Härkänen Email & Phone Number

Turku Area, Finland

As one of the main programmers and developers of Barotrauma (Steam EA in June 2019, full launch in March 2023) I have had my fingers in most corners of the game. When our team has grown, I have also acted as one of the feature team leads and taken part in the day-to-day management tasks. Besides that, I have worked on design and balance related subjects. Here are some of the things I have worked on: - In-game character editor to help both developers and the modders to create content in the game- AI for monsters, bots, and other NPCs- Creature implementation and behavior design- Procedural animations- UI systems- Sprite editor and other tools- Moddability improvements and support- Overall game balancing, and usability improvements

Working on my own game projects and tools and (to a minor extent) writing about game development.

Developing augmented reality applications on Unity 3D for mobile platforms under two research projects. One of the applications we created, Wordsmith (Sanan seppä), is downloadable for free on Apple App Store and Google Play marketplaces. The job also included academic writing tasks.- Content and feature implementation- Motion capture animations- Visual and sensor tracking- Coarse positioning (GPS, compass and gyroscope, bluetooth beacons)- A save-load system- Shaders- System architecture

- Implemented new gameplay features like recruitable adventurers, which the player could send for quests, and branching, dialogue-like story events loaded from JSON files- Made improvements on existing systems: terrain generation and a fog of war shader- Created custom editor tools

Game Developer Trainee Program, Computer Games And Programming Skills

During the 8 week training period, we learned a bit about every aspect of developing games, from rapid prototyping to marketing. In groups.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), History, Laudatur (A)

Activities and Societies: Member of the board at the Association of History Students at the University of Turku and Chief Editor.

Education record