Rick Davidson
CEO at GameDev.tv
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Davidson is a veteran game industry leader and coach with nearly two decades creating games and nine years at the helm of GameDev.tv, where he built 20+ best-selling courses reaching over a million students. He blends hands-on Unity development—implementing core gameplay, NavMesh-based movement, animation blend trees and cinematic sequences—with executive experience founding and exiting a studio and leading teams at PopCap and Next Level Games. As a career coach he’s helped thousands transition into paid creative work, and his background in organisational psychology informs his practical, action-focused mentoring approach. Based in Queensland, Australia, he’s also an award-winning instructor who translates complex studio practices into accessible training for indie and studio developers alike.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityMaster of Applied Science Organisational Psychology, Master of Applied Science Organisational Psychology at University of CanberraDiploma of Game Design Game Design, Diploma of Game Design Game Design at Vancouver Film School
Github Skills (6)
game-development10
csharp10
animation10
dotnet-core10
unity3d10
leveldb8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
UnityRPGv2/RPG
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rick implemented core gameplay features and level design elements using the Unity game engine. They added basic movement functionality using the NavMeshAgent and created a follow camera to track the player. The user also implemented a click-to-move system and integrated animation blend trees for character movement and attack animations, enhancing player interaction. Furthermore, they set up a cinematic sequence.
CompleteUnityDeveloper/06-Laser-Defender
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
In this section we create a lively top-down space shooter, learning coroutines, waypoints, scriptable objects, and more. This repo is part of our Complete Unity C# Developer 2D course (http://gdev.tv/cudgithub). (Ref: LD_CUD)
Contributions:40 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
coroutinescsharpscriptableobject
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