Steve Datz
Game Developer at Flying General Games
Grafton, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Datz is a game developer and C# programmer with eight years of hands-on experience building gameplay systems, AI, UIs, and data-driven architectures in Unity. He combines a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Game Design from UW–Stout with experience across studios and engineering teams, shipping features, optimizing performance, and managing builds. His background spans both creative design roles—translating high-level goals into fun mechanics—and low-level engineering work in C, C++, Ada, and systems on Linux/Windows from defense-oriented simulation projects. A longtime modder for titles like Age of Empires II and Total War Shogun 2, he brings a practiced sense for game “feel” and rapid iteration that informs his professional design decisions. Based in Grafton, WI, he’s happiest solving technical design problems for strategy and city-building systems and often tests ideas by playing the genres he loves. He prefers technical design roles where programming and game design intersect, and has a track record of collaborating with freelancers and multidisciplinary teams to ship polished gameplay.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Information Studies, Computer Science and Information Studies at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeBachelor's degree Computer Science and Game Design, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Game Design at University of Wisconsin-StoutAssociates Visual Communications, Associates Visual Communications at ITT Tech
german- basic, Spanish
Github Skills (37)
github-desktop9
dotnet8
typescript8
electron8
csharp8
git7
rider7
github7
resharper6
unity3d6
visual-studio6
xamarin6
linux6
urp6
desktop6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Havie/2021Game
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:70 PRs, 82 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
Havie/RoyalRodentsNew
Feb 2020 - May 2020
gitignore setup
Contributions:184 PRs, 244 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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