Daniel Dressler
Game Director at 合同会社Minakata Dynamics
Sendai, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Dressler is a Tokyo-based game director and founder with 14 years of engineering experience building systems-heavy games and shipping console titles. As founder of Minakata Dynamics he leads development of Railgrade, a licensed Nintendo Switch release that emphasizes complex track and industrial-chain simulation. Previously he was the sole engineer behind TINY METAL’s multi-platform, multi-language worldwide launch and presented his Unreal Engine techniques at industry events. His open-source work spans low-level C++ plugins and emulator UI/input improvements, including contributions to the well-known PPSSPP project and a minizip-based native component for BlackBerry WebWorks. Comfortable across engine, tooling and systems programming, he combines entrepreneurial drive with a history of shipping difficult technical products on time. Based in Sendai, he prefers developer-to-developer connections and runs his studio with a hands-on technical leadership style.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Calgary
Japanese, English
Github Skills (11)
file-handling10
json10
uid10
c-language10
keymapping10
cprogramming-language10
ui-design10
ps10
front-end-development10
emulation10
error-handling9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
blackberry/WebWorks-Community-APIs
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
Community owned repository containing JavaScript Extensions for BlackBerry WebWorks
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the `ExtractZipFile` plugin for the BlackBerry WebWorks platform, focused on extracting files from zip archives. Their work included implementing a native C++ component, utilizing the minizip library. The user designed and implemented the core extraction logic, including handling file metadata, directory creation, and error conditions. They also added features such as tar bomb protection and file overwrite control to the plugin.
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hrydgard/ppsspp
Apr 2013 - Jul 2013
A PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac and Linux, written in C++. Want to contribute? Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/5NJB6dD or just send pull requests / issues. For discussion use the forums at forums.ppsspp.org.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:45 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and key mapping functionality within the PSP emulator. They implemented a new key mapping configuration screen, allowing users to customize button inputs. Furthermore, they extended the supported key codes and refined existing functionalities, like fixing an input clamping issue and fixing inconsistent indentation within the project's code. The changes involved modifying both the UI elements and key input handling.
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