Nathan Hoad
Director Of Story Engineering at Shorthand
Queensland, Australia
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolNathan Hoad is a Director of Story Engineering with 16 years of experience crafting narrative-driven digital experiences and leading engineering teams at Shorthand. He blends interaction design and multimedia programming skills from a B.IT at The University of Queensland with hands-on game development, building tools that help creators tell richer stories. At Shorthand he progressed from Senior Storytelling Engineer to director, bridging product, design and engineering to ship intuitive storytelling systems. An active open-source contributor, he maintains practical game-focused tooling like the Godot Dialogue Manager—adding features such as expression parsing, line wrapping and text search to support nonlinear dialogue. Based in Queensland, Australia, he pairs a maker’s curiosity (he’s co-creating the indie game Bravest Coconut about his cat Coco) with a pragmatic leadership style that favors developer ergonomics and creative enablement.
17 years of coding experience
B. IT (Interaction Design) / B. Multimedia Design, Interaction Design, Programming, Multimedia Design, B. IT (Interaction Design) / B. Multimedia Design, Interaction Design, Programming, Multimedia Design at The University of Queensland
Stackoverflow
101reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (7)
godot10
csharp9
dotnet-core9
editors8
editor8
addon7
gdscript7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nathanhoad/godot_dialogue_manager
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A powerful nonlinear dialogue system for Godot
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:193 releases, 7 reviews, 289 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nathan has made multiple contributions to the Godot Dialogue Manager, mainly focused on adding and improving features within the Godot engine. They added a recent files list to the open menu. Moreover, the user has implemented support for dialogue features such as wait and speed markers, along with a proper expression parser. The user has also improved the balloon layout of the example dialogue and added features such as line wrapping and text search.
godotdialogueeditorruntimeaddon
nathanhoad/saywhat_godot
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
A branching dialogue manager for the Godot game engine powered by SayWhat
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 4 months
game-enginegodotdialogue
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.