Alistair Aitcheson
Independent Developer at Alistair Aitcheson Games
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlistair Aitcheson is an independent developer and multi-disciplinary designer with nine years of professional experience building playful, human-centred technology across games, immersive theatre and interactive exhibits. He combines deep programming chops (C#, Objective‑C, C, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, PHP, Go) and hardware work with Arduino/ESP32 with award-winning creative design—his interactive shows and alternative-controller games have won IndieCade and A MAZE recognition. From shipping Sparx Learning’s WebGL maths games used by over 2,200 UK schools to deploying single‑handed mobile releases that landed on Apple’s front page, he bridges pedagogy, usability and scalable engineering. He regularly validates designs in situ—visiting classrooms and performance spaces—to ensure delightful user experiences for real people, including low-literacy learners. Equally at home prototyping novel captcha puzzles or designing paper‑shredder controllers, he’s an ideal consultant for ambitious projects that need both technical delivery and imaginative interaction design.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Ecole Normale Supérieure de LyonMMath, Mathematics with Study in Europe, MMath, Mathematics with Study in Europe at University of Warwick
Github Skills (12)
debugging9
emulation9
bit8
megadrive8
680008
genesis8
sega-genesis8
csharp8
16-bit7
nintendo-ds7
sega7
portable4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alistairaitcheson/BizHawk
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.
Contributions:3 reviews, 49 commits, 5 PRs in 11 months
emulatorfull-screenbizhawkdebuggingcsharp
alistairaitcheson/Genesis-Plus-GX
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
An enhanced port of Genesis Plus - accurate & portable Sega 8/16 bit emulator
Contributions:167 commits, 306 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 2 months
emulator16-bit68000genesissega
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