Simon Cutajar

• Simon Cutajar
• 21 years old
• English, Maltese, Italian, French
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BSc (Hons) ICT (University of Malta)

(mixture of computer science, artificial intelligence, computer engineering and information systems)

Thesis: XNA game that connected to the Internet and retrieved weapons from Wikipedia to use in-game (stored in an ontology)

• Developer
  • 3+ years of coding experience
• Designer
  • I've been designing games on paper for people from a young age in an RPG/point-and-click adventure game style. It's amazing what stories the mind can think up of. Professionally however, I have designed a Facebook game as regards gameplay, narrative and player experience, as well as the gameplay for my thesis.
• Musician
  • 3+ years of experience
• Project manager
  • I've managed a group of 6 people while creating a Facebook game in Flash, so I have previous experience

I'd really like to lead a project, while doing my fair share of development of course.

Basic to Intermediate:

• HTML, XML, CSS, SQL
• MATLAB
• Pascal, ActionScript 3.0
• Photoshop
• Learning C++, OpenGL
• Cubase, Ableton Live

Intermediate to Advanced:

• Joomla!, Wordpress
• Microsoft Office
• LaTeX
• Java, C#, XNA

I've also done some music production, recording and song writing.

• I want to make something people will enjoy playing :)
• My ambition is to form my own game studio

The genres I am considering are platformers, action games, puzzle games, arcade games, adventure games, first person shooters, or maybe something completely innovative. Although my personal preference lie with more complex and technical games such as RPGs and strategy games, I am well aware of the work involved in developing and designing those types of games.

I would like team mates that are social, quirky, original and that think outside the box, since I would not like to make a standard, run of the mill game. I'd prefer creating a small, but highly original, creative and catchy game, than creating a blockbuster, epic-narrative game. I'd rather create something like Katamari Damacy or like Portal, than something like Final Fantasy. Simple, but innovative, catchy and fun.

I consider myself meticulous and highly organized, so I aim to keep team members on an even footing with everyone else. That means a wiki and regular code style. I don't direct, I co-ordinate. I like people with their own initiative and who get things done.

Guys or girls, black or white, Danes or Internationals doesn't matter to me. What matters is that you are a highly innovative and creative person who gets things done and thinks outside the box.

TL;DR - I don't direct, I co-ordinate. I want innovative and creative people who get things done.

I'm partial to real time strategies, role playing games, adventure games, and weird, interesting stuff.

• Music (I sing and play the drums. I've been in a ska band, and a funk band. I listen to everything, from teen pop, to electronic, to jazz, to black metal.)
• Photography
• Philosophy, Psychology, Mythology, Languages and Etymology, History, Art, Literature, Typography and other fancy stuff. (I like taking an interest in the world around me)
• Travelling
• World Domination