Mat Hopwood
Game Developer at Drmop Games
Doncaster, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorMat Hopwood is a veteran game and engine developer with over 30 years in the industry and 14 years of professional experience focusing on cross-platform game tech. Based in Doncaster, England, he combines deep C++ engine work with modern HTML5 and Unity development, and maintains an active technical blog at drmop.com. His open-source contributions include platform integrations for the widely used cocos2d-x engine—adding Marmalade support and TIFF/resource path enhancements—demonstrating practical cross-platform problem solving. Comfortable across mobile (Android/iOS) and web targets, he blends low-level engine modifications with higher-level game development. Known for pragmatic fixes and compatibility work, he brings a mix of long-term architectural insight and hands-on coding.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (7)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
game-engine10
cocos2d-x10
android9
tiff9
ios9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cocos2d/cocos2d-x
Oct 2012 - Dec 2012
Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:18 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Mat's contributions primarily focused on integrating Marmalade support within the Cocos2d-x game engine. This involved modifying existing code, including the `CCSprite`, `CCLabelBMFont`, and `CCFileUtils` classes, to ensure compatibility with the Marmalade platform. The user also addressed issues within the test samples by conditionally excluding features unavailable in Marmalade. Furthermore, the commits show the addition of Tiff support and resource path root changes, extending Cocos2d-x's capabilities.
cocos2dmetalc-plus-plusiosdevelopment-tools
mrmop/IGX
Oct 2018 - May 2021
The Facebook Instant Games Wrapper for Web and Facebook Instant Game Developers
Contributions:83 commits, 1 PR, 73 pushes in 2 years 7 months
game-developersgamesinstantfacebook
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