Emma Maassen
Founder at Kitsune Games
Greater St. Louis United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolEmma Maassen is a founder and indie game developer with 11 years of experience building full-spectrum game products—design, art, audio, programming, web presence, QA, and marketing—through her studio Kitsune Games. A dual-major graduate in Japanese and communication, she pairs international cultural insight (studies in Japan and an internship in Denmark) with hands-on technical craftsmanship, having created reusable game frameworks and a player music system for Portalarium’s Shroud of the Avatar. Based in Greater St. Louis but with Dutch roots and a history as a US green card holder living in Cyprus, she brings a truly global perspective to localization and market strategy. Emma combines entrepreneurial grit with community leadership, having been a Ludum Dare keynote speaker and shipping half a dozen titles while independently maintaining proprietary engines and bespoke websites. Not obvious from titles alone, she routinely bridges creative and technical roles—often producing assets and code herself—to accelerate time-to-market for small teams.
11 years of coding experience
Japanese Language, Japanese Language at 信州大学 / Shinshu UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Japanese Language and Communication, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Japanese Language and Communication at Hogeschool Zuyd (Maastricht, Heerlen, Sittard)
Dutch, English, Japanese
Github Skills (90)
playing10
steamos10
audio9
music9
file-format9
abc9
psd9
image-filters9
hdr9
openexr9
dotnet8
memory-allocation8
image-processing8
dos8
imaging8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Enichan/Arenas
Nov 2023 - Dec 2023
Unmanaged arena memory allocators for C#/CSharp with easy interactions between managed and unmanaged references
Contributions:10 PRs, 166 pushes, 9 branches in 23 days
allocatorallocatorsarenacsharpdotnet
Enichan/textplayer
Sep 2014 - Aug 2019
Contributions:4 releases, 37 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 11 months
mmlsongaudioabcsong-playing
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.