David Stark
Chairperson Of The Board at zarkonnen.com
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolDavid Stark is a Zurich-based software engineer and game developer with 15 years of experience spanning indie game publishing, machine learning, UI design, and web technologies. He founded and sells games through zarkonnen.com while also serving as Chairperson of the Swiss Game Hub, combining product-focused creativity with community leadership. His background includes building a lightweight Selenium test recorder at Sauce Labs and implementing Java-based OCR using convolutional neural networks, reflecting deep practical knowledge of both tooling and ML. An active full-stack contributor to the well-known minimalist text adventure A Dark Room, he’s improved UX with thoughtful features like “max/zero” controls and new in-game mechanics. Trained at the University of Cambridge in computer science, he brings a mix of academic grounding, hands-on engineering, and a knack for turning research ideas into playable, user-friendly systems.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
2.1, Computer Science, 2.1, Computer Science at University of Cambridge
German, English, French, Spanish
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Github contributions (5)
doublespeakgames/adarkroom
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
A Dark Room - A Minimalist Text Adventure
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on enhancing the game's user interface and user experience. They implemented new features such as "max" and "zero" buttons for supply and worker management, improving the player's ability to interact with the game's mechanics. In addition, the user added new "medicine" items and events to enhance the game. Further work included bug fixes and adjustments to city exploration.
gameminimalistroomdarktext-adventure
Zarkonnen/Ager
Apr 2012 - Apr 2014
Contributions:59 commits in 1 year 11 months
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