Nicolas Tian
Co-Founder at Clewcat Games
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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Top SchoolNicolas Tian is a game-focused software entrepreneur and engineer with 15+ years building MMOs, indie titles, and game backend platforms. As Co-Founder of Metaworking and founder of indie studio Clewcat Games, he blends hands-on design and programming—shipping commercially successful titles like DungeonUp (50K+ copies) and custom modding tools—with B2B experience advising 50+ studios at Improbable. He excels in object-oriented design (C#, Java, AS3), distributed systems, realtime communication and NoSQL, and has led teams while introducing CI, testing, and agile practices in live game environments. Nicolas pairs a player-first game design sensibility with deep technical architecture skills, having built scale-out server components, custom networking frameworks, and modding engines. Comfortable in English and fluent in cross-cultural collaboration, he often bridges technical proposals and public presentations for Chinese game studios. A creative technologist, he uniquely oscillates between pixel art and large-scale multiplayer system design.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Graphics, Computer Graphics at BerkeleyXBS Computer Science & Technology, BS Computer Science & Technology at Beijing Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (14)
simulation10
mmo10
multiplayer10
replication10
dedicated-server10
gateway10
unreal10
server10
networking10
messaging10
plugin10
magicavoxel5
voxel2
unreal-engine-52
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
channeldorg/channeld-ue-demos
Apr 2022 - Dec 2025
ChanneldUE demonstrations
Contributions:7 releases, 12 reviews, 33 PRs in 3 years 8 months
channeldorg/channeldorg.github.io
Sep 2024 - Dec 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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