Matthew Burton
Assistant Professor Game Design at Capture Technologies, LLC
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Burton is an assistant professor of game design and indie developer with 11 years of experience building and teaching games using Unity, Unreal, and GameMaker. He blends hands-on software engineering—C#, GML, QA automation and mobile UI/UX—with curriculum leadership at Webster University, preparing students for industry workflows like GitHub, Jira, and Agile. His commercial work includes UI/UX and QA leadership on Bloxels (and its Star Wars and EDU variants) and several indie titles he authored, such as Ninjevade and PipSpin. Matthew also brings event-technology operational experience deploying hardware/software globally at trade shows, a detail that informs his pragmatic, cross-discipline approach to game production.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Systems at Maryville University of Saint LouisMaster of Arts - MA, Communications Management, Master of Arts - MA, Communications Management at Webster University
c#, Spanish, German, English
Github Skills (23)
google-play8
google-play-games8
typescript7
pong7
github6
electron6
unity3d5
map-editor5
tabletop5
rpg5
git5
spring4
tilemap4
python3
space3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mburton89/Space-Shooter-2024
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024
For GAME 3000
Contributions:8 PRs, 64 pushes, 19 branches in 8 months
mburton89/VGD1-Space-Shooter
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 57 pushes in 9 months
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