Michel Wacker
Founder & CEO at Gentle Troll Entertainment GmbH
Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMichel Wacker is a game industry entrepreneur and technical leader with 12 years of commercial experience building both serious and entertainment games from concept to release. As Founder & CEO of Würzburg-based Gentle Troll Entertainment, he has grown a 14-person studio that has shipped over 25 titles for clients like Fraunhofer IAIS and Carlsen while now transitioning into PC/console entertainment with their debut Underdown. He blends hands-on game design and cross-platform development expertise (HTML5, AIR/Flash roots) with product leadership, agile delivery and automated build pipelines to consistently deliver on time and budget. Known for securing local and national funding, he emphasizes creativity, transparency and sustainability as business differentiators. An early community contributor in the Flash era, Michel combines practical engineering chops with a maker’s instinct for storytelling-driven games.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Informatik Journalistik, BSc Informatik Journalistik at Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg
German, English, French
Github Skills (11)
phaser8
rendering8
canvas7
game-development7
webgl7
javascript7
2d-game6
desktop6
game-engine5
mobile-web5
facebook-instant-games1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dbltnk/ouya-loom-jam
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:86 commits in 5 days
kr1stov/CheckpointDressup
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:57 pushes in 2 days
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