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$35 USD / hour

eagan,

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Joined April 14, 2015

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Darrel C.

@darrelcusey

4.9

(5 reviews)

4.9

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$35 USD / hour

eagan,

united states

$35 USD / hour

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PC/Web Application Development

I have worked as a professional programmer since 1990. I have been programming in Unity and C# since 2010. I write for Gamasutra's Experts series covering topics like multiplayer networking, event management, and procedural content generation. I have presented at the International Game Developers Association (IGDATC) for my work on procedural content generation in Unity.

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$About Gridiron Heroes: \"A Tecmo Super Bowl social game? This needs to get funded.\" - Justin Waldron, Zynga Co-Founder | The rebirth of a cult-classic with an added twist! Gridiron Heroes isn\'t just fantasy football—it\'s every sports fan\'s fantasy! We developed Gridiron Heroes to address a void in today\'s social gaming scene. There\'s been nothing for the American football fan. Gridiron Heroes will change that, utilizing Facebook as the platform for the ultimate head-to-head competition in American Football GM-style arcade simulation.\" When I joined the Gridiron Heroes project, the emulator was already functioning in Unity 3D, and it could be played as an app on Facebook -- but it didn\'t have a multiplayer component, the game was single-player only. I designed and implemented a lockstep protocol for the game, added Photon Unity Networking, and re-factored most of the core systems to allow the game to be played multi-player.$

GridIron Heroes - Networking

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ShatterRealm

A sample of my coding style. I use a well-commented and clean coding-style.

Code Sample

1832639

Procedural Content Generation in Unity3D

This is a sample of some of the custom editors that I have built in Unity 3D. Custom editors are a great way to make it easy for game designers to rapidly test game variations without needing any additional coding from the programmers.

Unity Custom Editor

GridIron Heroes - Networking

2313203

ShatterRealm

Code Sample

1832639

Procedural Content Generation in Unity3D

Unity Custom Editor

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5.0

€500.00 EUR

game development

Dealing with a bleeding edge techology? Darrel is the right person for your job! We are extremely happy we finally found a capable and constructive programmer who fulfill our ideas into reality. :-)

Game Design

Unity 3D

Game Development

Primoz Z.

@zorkoprimoz

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7 years ago

4.6

€210.00 EUR

Project for darrelcusey

very good

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Dave M.

@Dave66ir

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7 years ago

4.8

$403.97 USD

Project for darrelcusey

Darrel Cusey is a very skilled, profesional and friendly freelancer. He is available for chat and discusion very frequently, he also gives you very good and friendly advices and tips. All in all he's a great person. I would definetely recomend his services to everyone. I will definetely hire him again in the future. Overall I would rate him 10/10. :)

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Janez D.

@Janezslo

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7 years ago

4.8

$500.00 USD

cycling and real world terrain

Darrel Cusey is a very skillfull, friendly, mature and profesional freelancer. Comunication with him was great at all times, everything was delivered on budget and on time. I will definetly work with him/hire him in the future again. :)

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Janez D.

@Janezslo

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7 years ago

5.0

$1,300.00 USD

Integrate Unity Photon Multiplayer Networking into Unity NES Emulator

Darrel went above and beyond any measurement that could possibly be given. Not only did he complete the work on time, but offered GREAT suggestions and insight from his vast expertise.

Game Design

C# Programming

Unity 3D

Dave M.

@bucknasty

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9 years ago

Experience

Whiteout Studios, LLC

Jul 2013 - Present

• Sole programmer on a team of five developing an unannounced multiplayer title in Unity 4 and Unity 5 (later ported to Unreal 4). Created gameplay and technical demos that were shown at GDC 2014 where they received unanimous praise. Additional tools integrated into these demos included nGUI, Photon Unity Networking, Marmoset Skyshop, ShaderForge and uScript. • Developed a suite of custom editors, asset pipeline, and tools within Unity 4 (and later Unity 5 and Unreal 4) that allowed the entire team to quickly test variations in gameplay mechanics without any programmer assistance. • Presented the talk “Procedural Content Generation in Unity3D” for my local chapter of the IGDA. This lead to several articles published on Gamasutra’s Expert section. • Used my 10+ years of experience as a hobbyist/independent game developer to work with the team in making critical game design and gameplay mechanics decisions.

Education

Bachelor of Arts

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities,

United States

1989 - 1995

(6 years)

Qualifications

SAS Institute

1999

Redhat

1998

Microsoft

1991

Publications

Unity Networking Sample Using One NetworkView

Gamasutra

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DarrelCusey/20130221/187128/Unity_Networking_Sample_Using_One_NetworkView.php In this post, I make a simple peer-to-peer FPS Networking demo in Unity that uses only one NetworkView no matter how many players join your game. Includes a link to the Unity Package you can download and run yourself.

Server Discovery in Unity 4.0.1

Gamasutra

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DarrelCusey/20130307/188088/Server_Discovery_in_Unity_401.php Unity is Client-Server in its networking design. A peer-to-peer system, though, can be developed on top of Unity's existing networking framework. In this article, I'll demonstrate how to do Server Discovery in Unity.

Server Migration in Unity

Gamasutra

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DarrelCusey/20130514/192230/Server_Migration_in_Unity.php This is the third article in my 3-part series demonstrating how Unity's built-in networking can be easily enhanced to allow for a peer-to-peer networking model. In this article, I demonstrate Server Migration - unity package included.

A Simple Observer Pattern for Unity 4.2

Gamasutra

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DarrelCusey/20130829/199271/A_Simple_Observer_Pattern_for_Unity_42.php This article will help you implement a simple publisher/subscriber pattern in Unity 4.2. Additionally, we'll create the solution without using complex delegates, generics, events, or other types of more advanced techniques. Unity source code included.