Bulut Karakaya
Founder Game Director at Mindful Cloud Games
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBulut Karakaya is a game technical leader and studio founder with 13 years of professional experience and a 15+ year trajectory of shipping award‑winning games. He has led engineering teams and technical direction on high-profile titles like Monument Valley 3 and Desta, and built studios and core systems as cofounder/CTO at Pera Games and TartGames. Based in Cambridge, he now runs Mindful Cloud Games as a solo prototyper exploring AI-assisted simulation, emergent storytelling, and characters whose memories and social behaviour drive gameplay. His recent focus integrates large language models into game “thinking engines” so NPCs form beliefs and evolve over time—a practical bridge between technical systems and narrative design. He pairs hands-on programming and tooling experience with mentorship and production discipline, and often designs data-driven pipelines that let designers and writers iterate independently.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Sabanci UniversityMasters, Entertainment Technologies, Masters, Entertainment Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University
English, TurkishGithub contributions (5)
bulutk/BannerRunner
Oct 2012 - Feb 2020
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 2 pushes in 7 years 5 months
bulutk/bulutk.github.io
Feb 2019 - Apr 2024
Contributions:50 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 2 months
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