Dani Kogan
CEO, Game Director at HippiePunk Games
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDani Kogan is a technical sound designer and game director with 11 years of experience blending C++ engineering, audio middleware expertise, and game design to create immersive, system-driven experiences. As CEO and Co-Founder of HippiePunk Games and former Principal Technical Sound Designer at Eidos-Montréal, Dani leads both creative vision and low-level audio engine work for large and indie projects. Their background includes gameplay scripting and audio implementation on titles like Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity, plus hands-on middleware integration (FMOD, Wwise) and music composition. Active in the Montreal and Quebec City communities, Dani co-founded Game Jam de Québec and regularly speaks at Interactive Audio Montreal, showing a commitment to growing the local scene. Notably, they combine non-violent, systemic game design principles with deep technical fluency—building audio systems that shape gameplay rather than merely layer sound.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Dimploma with Honour Game Design, Dimploma with Honour Game Design at Vancouver Film School
English, Hebrew, Russian, French
Github Skills (36)
audiounit10
plug10
vst10
plugin10
clap10
audio10
juce10
wwise10
cpp10
audio-effect10
application-framework9
desktop9
linux9
windows9
auv39
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DaniKog/GameAudioTable
May 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:142 commits, 177 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
DaniKog/UnityMidiPlayback
Jun 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
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