John Q
Game Developer at Tencent Games
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Q is a seasoned game developer and studio leader with nearly a decade in the industry and over 10 years of broader game experience managing teams of 100+ across multiple studios. He has driven revenue-focused portfolios—overseeing live games that generated 90% of company revenue at Bigpoint—and repeatedly stabilized and relaunched underperforming titles. At UDREAM he led the studio strategy and in 2023 designed and rolled out AI across art, product planning and engineering, blending creative direction with systematic programming practices. A hands-on engineer as well, he contributes to open-source tooling like Tencent’s UnLua, improving core Lua scripting and hotfix functionality for Unreal Engine. Based in Sydney, he combines strong product vision and P&L discipline with a track record of building cross-functional teams and shipping profitable, player-first games.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer science and technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer science and technology at Zhengzhou University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
lua10
unreal-engine-510
unreal-engine-410
unreal10
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Tencent/UnLua
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
A feature-rich, easy-learning and highly optimized Lua scripting plugin for UE.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 14 PRs, 27 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the UnLua plugin by fixing bugs and merging updates. They addressed issues related to the Lua searcher in UnLua 2.1, impacting the Hotfix module. The user also merged branches, integrating changes into the master branch and improving the overall functionality of the plugin. These modifications involved core functionalities of the Lua scripting plugin.
luascriptingfeature-richoptimizedlua-scripting
jozhn/jozhn.github.io
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 239 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
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