Zachary Crownover
Senior Gameplay Programmer at Blue Isle Studios
Springfield, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Crownover is a Senior Gameplay Programmer with over a decade of professional experience building gameplay, UI and platform-specific systems for indie and mid-size studios. He has progressed from solo game development—handling everything from coding to sound and art—to leadership roles where he architects features and acts as the bridge between design and engineering. Based in Springfield, Missouri, Zachary brings a pragmatic full-stack game dev mindset honed at companies like Dreamlit Games and Blue Isle Studios, with hands-on experience shipping cross-platform systems. His background includes traditional software development at O'Reilly Auto Parts, giving him strong backend and tooling instincts that complement his gameplay focus. Trained in game design (Master’s) and philosophy, he combines technical craft with a thoughtful approach to player experience and design trade-offs. Colleagues rely on him for clean, maintainable systems and for translating creative goals into achievable engineering plans.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Philosophy, Master's degree Philosophy at University of MississippiMaster's degree Game Design, Master's degree Game Design at Full Sail UniversityCompleted Course Work Computer Science, Completed Course Work Computer Science at Drury University
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
strangelittlemonkey/rust-postgres
Aug 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
rustpostgresql-driverpostgresqlprogramming-languagerust-programming-language
strangelittlemonkey/facter
Jun 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 10 months
factscollectlinux
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