Mathieu Pistol
Concepteur De Jeux at Snappy Sloth
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolMathieu Pistol is a freelance game designer and developer with 11 years of experience, best known for his work as a multidisciplinary designer-programmer on Dead Cells during a seven-year tenure at Motion Twin. Now leading Snappy Sloth, he consults on game design and development—helping teams create robust systems or refine existing mechanics—and remains available for remote work or meetings across France. His background spans web and mobile puzzle games to PC roguelike platformers, with roots in Flash/AS3 development that inform a pragmatic, performance-aware approach. Colleagues value his blend of hands-on implementation skills and design intuition, capable of shipping prototypes and polishing systems to production quality.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
DUT, Services et Réseaux de Communication (now known as MMI), DUT, Services et Réseaux de Communication (now known as MMI) at Université Michel de Montaigne (Bordeaux 3)
French, English
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Github Skills (53)
open-source10
game-development10
game-engine9
haxe8
godot8
in-progress8
actionscript6
music5
spotify5
vlc5
plugin5
mpd5
haxeflixel4
obs4
cmyk4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Snappy-Sloth/GameOff-2020-client
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 tag in 3 months
Tipyx/heaps
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:12 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
gamegamedevheapsgame-developmentgame-framework
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