Banun Idris
Narrative, Cinematics, And Performance Direction
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBanun Idris is a Lead Game Designer and former software engineer with 11 years of experience blending narrative-driven game systems, technical design, and production leadership across top studios including Night School, Blizzard, and Naughty Dog. Comfortable bridging creative and technical teams, Banun has shipped narrative, encounter, and progression systems on high-profile projects such as The Last of Us titles and led campaign and narrative work on unannounced AAA projects. Earlier roles at Google and Hack Reactor sharpened their engineering and tooling chops, enabling them to refactor complex systems and automate workflows to speed iteration. Trained in acting and directing, they bring a performer’s sensibility to player experience and storytelling, and have a history of crafting immersive VR and interactive theatre pieces. Based in Los Angeles, Banun combines multidisciplinary storytelling, technical fluency, and production savvy to turn ambitious narrative ideas into playable, polished systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hack ReactorBachelor's Degree Law, Bachelor's Degree Law at University of ReadingActing Theater, Acting Theater at Atlantic Acting School
English, Malay
Github Skills (15)
security10
face8
broadcast7
webpack7
javascript7
css6
amd5
coffeescript5
compiler5
commonjs4
bundler4
code-splitting2
cli2
es6-modules2
web-performance2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
banunatina/biscuits
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Bites of (coding) practice to have with your coffee.
Contributions:28 commits, 7 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 month
coding-practicecoffee
KindlingIcicle/snapcast
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:62 commits, 13 PRs, 1 push in 11 days
facesnapcastbroadcast
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