Nicolas Cannasse
CEO, Creative Director
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolNicolas Cannasse is a seasoned game industry entrepreneur and language designer with 23 years of experience, co-founding Shiro Games and Motion-Twin and serving as CEO and Creative Director on hits like Evoland and Northgard. He designed and maintains the Haxe programming language and HashLink VM, and is the primary driving force behind the open-source Heaps game framework used to build Shiro’s titles. A hands-on technical leader, Nicolas combines game direction, engine and compiler development, and performance optimisation—he’s contributed direct improvements to rendering, DirectX support and text pipelines in Heaps. He balances product vision with low-level systems work, speaks internationally on developer topics, and champions open-source and free software philosophies. Based in Bordeaux, he brings rare cross-discipline expertise spanning language design, full-stack engine development, and commercial game strategy.
23 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master IT management, Master IT management at KEDGE Business SchoolMaster CS Engineering, Master CS Engineering at ENSEIRB-MATMECAMaster CS, Master CS at Université de Bordeaux
French, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (8)
haxe10
texture10
texturing10
game-development10
performance-optimization10
opengl9
directx9
webgl8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
HeapsIO/heaps
Nov 2012 - Jan 2023
Heaps : Haxe Game Framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 21 reviews, 3735 commits in 10 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the Haxe Game Framework, Heaps, by fixing bugs, adding new features, and optimizing the existing code. This developer's contributions included improvements to the DirectX driver, the addition of auto-generated mipmaps and support for different texture formats, and improvements to the 2D and 3D rendering pipelines. Furthermore, the user also made various performance optimizations and improvements for text rendering and other 2D features, showcasing a strong understanding of the framework's internals.
gamegamedevheapsgame-developmentgame-framework
ncannasse/ld30
Aug 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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