Andreas Ecker
Senior Game Designer at InnoGames GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Ecker is a Senior Game Designer based in Hamburg with 13 years of experience crafting free-to-play browser and mobile games, specializing in balancing and systemic game design. He has shipped strategy and MMO titles at InnoGames and Gameforge, including turn-based mobile strategy and large-scale browser MMOs, and has strong level design roots going back to hobby projects. Comfortable across the full design spectrum, Andreas pairs product-minded systems work with hands-on prototyping and tuning to drive player engagement and retention. He also brings practical programming chops—contributing UI and bug fixes to the notable open-source Kivy Python framework—bridging design and technical implementation. Known for turning complex design constraints into elegant, playable systems, he thrives in iterative, data-informed development environments. With an Informatics background from Fachhochschule Landshut, he combines formal technical training with deep domain experience in live service games.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Informatik, Informatik at Fachhochschule Landshut
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Github Skills (10)
ui-design10
python10
kivy10
documentation7
recursion6
shell6
linux6
fuzzywuzzy6
android6
ios5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kivy/kivy
Jun 2016 - Mar 2021
Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS
Role in this project:
UI/UX Developer & Bug Fixer
UI/UX Developer & Bug FixerContributions:9 reviews, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily focused on fixing UI-related issues and improving the user experience within the Kivy framework. Their commits addressed specific bugs in the `ActionView` and `DropDown` widgets, improving their behavior and preventing errors. Further work involved documentation updates for properties like `Slider.step`, and refactoring the `ModalView` class to optimize its code.
pythonlinux-windowswindowsui-frameworklinux
AndiEcker/kivy
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, OS X, Android and iOS
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 11 branches in 6 years 10 months
pythonlinux-windowswindowslinux-osui-framework
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