Benjamin Anderson
Owner And Content Creator
Vernal, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Anderson is a game developer, educator, and founder of Heart Gamedev LLC with eight years of hands-on experience creating playable projects and teaching others to make games via YouTube tutorials and paid courses. He combines full-stack development skills with game-specific expertise—implementing gameplay systems, AnimationTree-driven character movement, collision detection, and visual effects like laser beams in his tutorial repo. Based in Vernal, Utah, he has prior experience building simulation software in JavaScript and localizing products for Portuguese and Spanish markets. As an independent content creator and developer he blends product creation, developer education, and community-focused open-source examples to help aspiring creators ship their first games.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS), General Studies, Associate of Science (AS), General Studies at Utah State University
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Esperanto
Github Skills (5)
scene10
collision-detection10
godot10
game-development10
animation10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
uheartbeast/youtube-tutorials
Feb 2020 - May 2020
A repository for holding all the source code to my YouTube tutorial videos.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 29 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily worked on developing game scenes and implementing core gameplay features. They added a laser beam effect by creating the necessary scenes and assets. Additionally, the user worked on an action RPG series, implementing player movement and animation with AnimationTree and adding collision detection.
videosjavascriptyoutube-tutorialyoutube
uheartbeast/metroidvania
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:60 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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