At present I work as independent contractor. If you are interested in my services, feel free to contact me via email wicharek@gmail.com. At the moment I am not interested in full-time office positions.

I also work on my own game products. If you are interested in any type of partnership: publishing my work or creating some cool stuff together. I would love to hear from you too.

In my timezone it is now: May 20th, 08:43 EEST



General

Education: Kharkiv national university of radioelectronics
Birthdate: October 6. 1985
Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine
Specialization: Game development, Interactive 2D/3D applications, Mobile solutions
Technologies: iOS (iPhone and iPad), OpenGL ES, C++, Qt Library, Android, Linux, Mac OS X
Also: Ruby, node.js, Flash/Flex, Java. In past had a lot of experience with .NET framework.

Projects

This is a list of projects I have ever happen to participate in. “Participation” means that I wrote some amount of code for the project. The estimated (subjectively by myself) contribution in percents is provided for each project. It shows the amount of programming work that I did for the project relatively to all project programming work. This is not the comprehensive list of everything I worked on, only most successfull and important things are here.

Dragons Rage

Dragons Rage

My Contribution

100%

Addictive medieval action arcade game with simple controls, attractive graphics and intense arcade-style game play. You’re the angry dragon and you must fight to defend yourself against a swarm of enemies coming at you from all sides! Defeat your enemies with a roaring wall of fire, pick up bonus items & weapons along the way and maximize your score as you tear through this fun action-arcade game!
The idea, game mechanics, level design, programming and even some graphics assets are created by me.

Screenshots and video
iPhone and iPad | Mac OS X

Durak for iPhone and iPad

Durak for iPhone and iPad

My Contribution

85%
Employer: Tundra Mobile
Customer: LostToken Software
Link: in AppStore

Implementation of classic Russian card for iPhone and iPad. Single player against AI opponents, multiplayer game via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or Online multiplayer. Graphics is OpenGL ES based. Server side software uses same code base as iPhone version and is developed in C++ running on Linux server.

Screenshots and video
iPhone and iPad

meetOne for iPhone

meetOne for iPhone

My Contribution

70%
Employer: X1 Group
Customer: meetOne GmbH
Link: in German AppStore

iPhone client application for biggest German dating network. Application communicates to meetOne server via REST API. Features include: watching photos and profiles, sending messages, uploading photos, watching and uploading videos, playing social games and much more.

Screenshots and video
iPhone

Little Finder

Little Finder

My Contribution

100%
Customer: Alligator Apps
Link: in AppStore

Game of fun and education for kids and adults. Player should quickly find announced object on the field. Developed using cocos2d engine.

Screenshots and video
iPhone

Little Writer

Little Writer

My Contribution

100%
Customer: Alligator Apps
Link: in AppStore

Educating game for kids to learn writing. Fun and easy to use. Player is drawing a letter or geometric shape by moving a critter and picking object. Content is fully customizable. Developed with cocos2d engine.

Screenshots and video
iPhone

KitchenPad Timer

KitchenPad Timer

My Contribution

100%

This visual kitchen timer that can be used to manage multiple cook times for your stove-top and oven. The convenient timer displays give you all the critical timer info at-a-glance.

Screenshots and video
iPhone and iPad

Frootgroove

Frootgroove

My Contribution

100%
Employer: Tundra Mobile
Customer: PeakRts
Link: in AppStore

Simple fun arcade game. Player controls three monkeys in order to catch the fruits falling from the trees avoiding stones. Storyline in comic style. Global online high score.

Screenshots and video
iPhone

Revenge

Revenge

My Contribution

95%
Employer: Tundra Mobile
Link: in AppStore

Arcade game. The player is chasing the fleeing enemy, trying to him him with various items. The action takes place on the streets of famous American cities. Objective: to hit opponent as much times as possible. Facebook user pictures of player and his friends can be put on characters faces. Features online scoreboard.

Screenshots and video
iPhone

The Pini Society

The Pini Society

My Contribution

95%
Employer: Program Ace
Customer: Arkadium
Link: Official site

Casual puzzle game on archaeological theme for the PC. Created when casual games on archaeological theme for the PC were on peak of their popularity. Goal of the game to fill in pieces of colored mosaics with corresponding color and shape. A lot of beautiful effects, for some Adobe Flash is used. Developed with Qt Library.

Screenshots and video
Windows PC

Pirate Battle

Pirate Battle

My Contribution

40%
Employer: Tundra Mobile
Customer: Green Eye Gmbh
Link: in AppStore

The online version of the classic battleships game. State of the game is stored on the server all the time, player may continue to play at any time. The server side is written in C++ and runs on Linux servers. MySQL is used for storing game information.

Screenshots and video
iPhone

Balda for PocketBook

Balda for PocketBook

My Contribution

100%

The implementation of the classic Russian game Balda for PocketBook electronic bookreaders with e-ink screens. You can play against the computer at three difficulty levels or against a live opponent on a single device. Supports portrait and landscape orientations, the devices with a touchscreen and those that does not have one.

Screenshots and video
PocketBook

Pocket ATM

Pocket ATM

My Contribution

45%
Employer: Tundra Mobile
Customer: LostToken Software
Link: in AppStore

Entertainment application for the iPhone. Its purpose is in throwing money by pulling your finger off the screen, blowing into the microphone or rapidly shaking the device. Three-dimensional globe in application shows locations where other people are currently using it.

Screenshots and video
iPhone

Am I Safe?

Am I Safe?

My Contribution

60%
Employer: Tundra Mobile
Customer: PotatoFish
Link: in AppStore

Application rovides information on the safeness of current user location or any other point on the globe. Information is taken from the Internet server via SOAP and is available only for the USA. Based on crime statistics, natural disasters and other similar things. Web part is written in PHP.

Screenshots and video
iPhone

The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree

The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree

My Contribution

20%
Employer: Program Ace
Customer: Namco
Link: on Gamespot

Quest for GameBoy Advance. I have been developing tools for designers: a level editor and animations editor. Tools were generating code in C to be used in the GBA project. Tools were built on .NET Framework with Windows Forms.

Screenshots and video
.NET Framework | GameBoy Advance

Work Experience

  • 2004

    3D Game Developer in Crazy House

    Developing GUI subsystem, tools and utilities for .NET based game engine to be used in game product.

  • 2005–2008

    Senior C++/C# Developer in Program-Ace

    Different kinds of projects in big outsourcing company. Computer games, desktop applications and web apps.

  • 2008

    iPhone Game Developer in Gameloft

    Porting Wii game to iPhone OS.

  • 2009–2010

    iPhone Technical Lead in Tundra Mobile

    Leading a small team of developers. Developing games and applications for iPhone and Android. Developed and published around ten projects for iPhone and iPad.

  • 2010–...

    Independent Game Developer in w2f2 studio

    Also working as freelance contractor on a number of mobile projects.