Josh Schonstal
Game Developer, Software Engineer, Co-Founder at Incredible Ape
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Schonstal is a game developer, software engineer, and co-founder with 15 years of professional experience and over 20 years coding across JavaScript, Ruby, Haxe, and C#. Based in Portland, he builds games and tools—from indie Godot titles at Incredible Ape to web-scale systems at Kongregate—bridging creative design and solid engineering. He’s comfortable across engines and stacks (HaxeFlixel, Unity, XNA, Ember, Rails, Node) and ships both front-end polish and backend services. An active open-source contributor, he enhances player experience work like UI, camera, and coin mechanics in public game projects. His background in computer science and Japanese reflects a blend of technical rigor and cross-cultural curiosity that informs his collaborative, iterative approach to product development.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Japanese, BS, Computer Science, Japanese at Oregon State University
Github Skills (8)
uid10
bbcode10
godot10
game-development10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
scene-manager9
scene9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
a-little-org-called-mario/a-little-game-called-mario
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
open source collective hell game
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on the front-end development of the game. Their contributions include adding text color effects and UI elements such as a canvas layer and coin count. The user also implemented a level transition effect and camera lean, enhancing the player experience. Furthermore, they added coin collection mechanics and resolved merge conflicts.
gamegodotgamedevgame-developmenthell
schonstal/Titania
Aug 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:47 commits, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
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