Mark Johns

@mark_johns

Product Design

Open Source

Visual Design

Software Engineering

Speaker

Founder

Writer

Professional

Manager

Interaction Design

Visual Studio Code

Early Adopter

Video Game Design

I've built a lot of games. Steve Jobs played one of them during an iPhone Keynote.

Pitched, engineered, and shipped creative work for Daft Punk, Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay, Justice and more. Worked for brands including Adult Swim, The Hunger Games, and Harry Potter.

Unity, AR, C#, C++, Objective-C. My work has reached tens of millions of players.

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I'm open to

freelance roles,

content creation,

advising companies,

developing games,

developing apps,

speaking on podcasts,

joining company boards,

open source contributions,

software development projects,

starting new open source projects,

designing brands,

designing products,

appearing in videos,

producing a short film,

writing blog posts,

youtube collaborations,

advising early stage companies,

advising late stage companies,

fractional executive roles,

brand strategy consulting,

and social media management.

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Resume

Sep 2007 - Present

Boutique Game Developer, AR/VR designer, Software Engineer, Doomlaser

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Using the OpenAI API to generate video game dialog with live Text-to-Speech

Interviewed on Indiegames.com about my personal indie game projects

Roger Ebert mentioned me in a piece he wrote declaring that video games could never be art. https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/video-games-can-never-be-art Luckily, he ended up changing his min...

Collaborated with cactus to build a game for Adult Swim about men who compete in street races and slowly begin to surgically augment their bodies with car parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kw...

Speaking engagements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTDmWGSHcj4

Things I’ve built

Published a new browser game for phones and computers: FUTURE BIKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q8wLtDFtVQ&t=175s Shipped many games in the Tap Tap Revenge series. Engineered the gameplay, hired artists, supervised design work, and more. Most popular applicati...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPWkmLJmVKACross-platform multiplayer realtime AR experience for Niantic. Team size: 2 Unity, C#, Niantic's in-house AR platform technology. IGN coverage: https://ww...