Kristian Macanga

Portfolio

Developer:
Kristian Macanga
Based in Zagreb, Croatia

Website:
kristianmacanga.com

Press / Business contact:
hi@kristianmacanga.com

Social:
Connect with me on Linkedin

Address:
Zagreb, Croatia

Phone:
+385 99 800 2402

About Me

Founder of Gungrounds and a passionate game developer with more than 12 years of experience in game development, game direction, game design, and programming.

With over eight years of experience in game design and direction, I have a solid foundation in game mechanics and systems, combat design, game feel and feedback, and level design. My expertise extends to designing enemies, weapons, and upgrades, managing stats and game progression, ensuring game balance, and developing missions, quests, user interfaces, themes, and lore to craft compelling gaming experiences.

I bring more than twelve years of development and programming experience across various languages and frameworks, with a particular focus on Unity and C#. My skills encompass gameplay programming, establishing project code structures, optimizing performance, and creating custom frameworks. I excel in object-oriented programming design and patterns, developing level editors, animations, and special effects, and building user interfaces and physics systems. My experience includes managing frontend and backend communication, supporting cross-platform and multiple resolutions, and porting between programming languages such as C++, ActionScript 3, C#, and Haxe. I am proficient with various APIs, Github, Trello, Hubstaff, and more.

Throughout my career, I have a proven track record of releasing games and leading teams of artists, musicians, programmers, and other creative professionals. My leadership and collaborative skills have been instrumental in bringing game concepts to life and ensuring projects are completed to the highest standards.



Gungrounds, established in 2016 in Zagreb, Croatia, is an independent video game developer specializing in game development of shooter games and level editor tools.

Our journey began with developing and porting Flash games, for awesome folks like Jan Willem Nijman, Kyle Pulver, and Greg Lobanov, backed by sponsors such as Armor Games, Newgrounds, Kongregate, Nickelodeon Addicting Games, and Miniclip. Our first release on the Steam platform, 'Rocking Pilot,' was developed in partnership with Mad Head Games.

Our most recent title, 'Serious Sam: Tormental,' has been recognized with several awards, including the 'ID Xbox GDC Choice' and 'SGC Indie Choice Award'. It was co-funded by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital.

Currently, developing 'Murder Book' and 'Immunauts', having secured Creative Europe MEDIA grants for both projects. In collaboration with Fumi Studio (MOUSE), also working on 'Galaxi Taxi'.

Games

• Daemons!
• Galaxi Taxi
• Serious Sam Tormental
• Immunauts
• Rocking Pilot
• Spitfire Inferno
• Forget Me Not
• Verge
• WAR Challenge
• Crazy Over Goo
• Epic Wizard Showdown
• Godfall
• Paper Dreams
• Sudden Aviator
• Vizard
• 10800 Zombies
• Coptra And Defem
• Game Jams And Prototypes
• Vretta Gamified Math Apps

Credits

Kristian Macanga
Game Director, Designer, Programmer

Contact

Email
hi@kristianmacanga.com

Twitter
twitter.com/kurismakku

Web
kristianmacanga.com