Jonathan Dearborn
Gameplay And Tools Programmer at DinoMage Games
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Dearborn is a gameplay and tools programmer with over 14 years of game development experience, specializing in Unreal, Unity, C++, C#, and SDL/SDL_gpu. He designs and ships gameplay systems and engines—ranging from indie mobile and educational titles to large VR projects—while also mentoring students and teams through hands-on teaching roles. Jonathan has a strong physics background (MS in Physics) that informs thoughtful, physics-driven gameplay and reflective design decisions. He contributes to open-source graphics tooling—fixing texture handling and adding GPU primitives to the widely used sdl-gpu library—which underpins his low-level graphics and cross-platform expertise. Based in Greater Boston, he balances independent product work with studio and contract roles, and is known for turning prototypes into polished releases and practical tooling.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Physics, Bachelor of Arts, Physics at State University of New York College at PotsdamMaster of Science, Physics, Master of Science, Physics at University of New Hampshire
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
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c1110
opengl10
graphic10
gles9
texture-mapping9
opengl-es9
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
grimfang4/sdl-gpu
Jan 2012 - Jun 2022
A library for high-performance, modern 2D graphics with SDL written in C.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Graphics Library Contributor
Back-end Developer & Graphics Library ContributorContributions:5 releases, 768 commits, 27 PRs in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan made several contributions to the `sdl-gpu` library, including fixing image filtering and addressing edge seam artifacts in the OpenGLES_1 blitting code. They implemented NPOT (non-power-of-two) texture support, improved surface loading on Windows, and refactored the code for image and target management. Moreover, the user added GPU_Ellipsis and GPU_EllipseFilled along with an OpenGL-based test application.
graphicsdl
grimfang4/SDL_FontCache
Apr 2015 - Apr 2020
A generic font caching C library with loading and rendering support for SDL.
Contributions:47 commits, 10 PRs, 41 pushes in 5 years 1 month
c-librarycachingrenderingsdl
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