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Brendan Drain is listed as Director at Brain and Nerd at Brain and Nerd, a company with 9 employees, based in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at brainandnerd.com, phone signal with area code 790, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Brendan Drain.
Brendan Drain previously worked as Director at Brain And Nerd and Reporter at Massively Overpowered. Brendan Drain holds Meng, Computer Science from Queen'S University Belfast.
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A video game studio founder with a decade of experience managing an independent studio developing original IPs with strong mechanic-driven gameplay. Acting as Lead Developer and tech lead on all projects.Business experience and skills: - Extensive experience running an SME, including financial planning and organisation - Managing employees, conflict resolution, and policy creation - Leading software engineering teams directly, including tasking and unblocking - Establishing and managing successful remote team workflows - Creating business plans and financial projections - Creating and executing successful crowdfunding campaigns - Developing innovative R&D tech projects - Bid writing, presentation and pitching to clients and stakeholdersSoftware Engineering experience and skills: - Extensive development experience in Unity, including knowledge of best practices, optimal design patterns, useful data structures, and common solutions - Specific Unity experience with scriptable objects, render pipelines, prefab workflows - Specialist in performance optimisation and deep profiling in Unity - Experience developing custom tools and editor interfaces in Unity to give designers new capabilities - Experience integrating third party assets into Unity projects and adapting them for custom purposes - Building a custom game engine in C# using the Monogame framework, deployed in a launched product - Developing custom shaders in HLSL, Amplify Shader Editor, and ShaderGraph - Interfacing with QA, debugging and bugfixing third party code - Good working knowledge across game programming fields (AI, netcode, cameras, characters etc) - Developing custom business software and process automation in C#, .NET, and Java for various clients - Experience with version control systems Git and PerforceWriting experience and skills: - Technical and documentation writing to a high standard - Ability to condense complex topics into content which is easier to understand for junior developers - Feature editing and writing, article layout and design - Extensive tech news writing experience - Interviewing and industry event reporting - Reviews and research - Creative writing for dynamic storytellingOther skills: - Strong working knowledge of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies - Good knowledge of emerging tech fields e.g. VR/AR - Good knowledge of networking, PC hardware, and cyber-security - Extensive experience with MMO game mechanics - Working knowledge of 3D modelling and texturing - Web-design and web development experience
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Belfast, United Kingdom
Founder and owner of Brain and Nerd, an independent game development studio in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I lead a tight-knit team developing games in Unity, and also take on a Lead Developer on our projects, including space 4X game Predestination and upcoming titles INCubator and Hortalius.
Newtownabbey, United Kingdom
Founding member of Massively Overpowered, an independent MMO news and opinion website launched following the closure of Weblogs Inc's long-standing blog Massively.com. I helped put together a crowdfunding campaign that was used to relaunch the site, where I now write the bi-weekly EVE Online column "EVE Evolved" and fill the role of the site's embedded.
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Freelance tech writer for Sync NI, covering news and developments in the Northern Ireland tech sector. As part of a tight-knit team, I write up news on the local tech industry for Sync NI's online content, investigate global tech stories of importance to the NI tech and business scene, and interviewing local tech companies. I also do writing and editing.
Contributing writer and editor for Massively.com, part of the Joystiq network and Weblogs Inc. Responsibilities include writing the weekly EVE Online column "EVE Evolved", and writing almost all of the EVE Online news and community coverage. Also research and write up news, interviews and featured articles on other MMOs.
I demonstrated in practical classes for students in Computer Science level 1 and 2. This involved helping students with any problems they encountered during practical assignments, explaining programming concepts and helping students develop an understanding of the course material. It also involved marking assignments and tests honestly and objectively.
I wrote a guide on Tanking in the MMO EVE Online for EON magazine issue 2. On the back of the quality of that work, I was invited to volunteer as a contributing editor for the Insider's Guide section of the magazine. In addition to writing several other guides, I was tasked with finding experts in other fields of EVE Online's gameplay and working with them.
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Shannen Hewitt
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Tina Lauro Pollock
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Brendan Drain holds Meng, Computer Science from Queen'S University Belfast.
Brendan Drain is listed with skills including Blogging, Creative Writing, Technical Writing, Game Design, Game Development, Editing, Writing, and Content Strategy.
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