Neil Moore
Assistant Professor (Special Title Series) at University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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RockstarNeil Moore is an Assistant Professor (Special Title Series) of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky with 14 years of software engineering experience, combining academic research and hands-on development. He contributes to significant open-source projects, notably as a backend developer for the well-known Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup game, where he refactored core gameplay systems and improved monster AI, item interactions, and spellcasting. His work spans pragmatic code maintenance and feature implementation, showing a talent for turning complex game mechanics into robust, maintainable systems. Based in Lexington, Kentucky, he balances teaching and scholarship with active community contributions that reflect a practical, systems-oriented mindset. Colleagues will note his dual focus on correctness and playable design, and that his public commentary is explicitly personal and independent of his institution.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
mechanics10
c-language10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
gameplay10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
crawl/crawl
Oct 2011 - Jan 2023
Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup official repository
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4319 commits, 58 PRs, 703 pushes in 11 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to the Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup game, focusing on the backend logic and gameplay mechanics. Their work involved refactoring existing code, fixing issues related to monster AI, object interaction, and spellcasting. They also implemented and improved features such as the handling of various item types, attack and damage calculations, and incorporated specific enhancements like incorporating a player-made spell.
dungeonstonerpgroguelikedungeon-crawl-stone-soup
crawl/monster
Oct 2011 - May 2016
Contributions:176 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 4 years 7 months
monster
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