Making games since 1988

I came on board at the newly founded Blue Byte at the end of 1988, while still at school, and became one of its first permanent employees after my Abitur and military service. Back then it was a two-person company working out of a small backyard office; by the time I moved on, it had grown to over 50 employees with offices in the UK and the US. I wrote games in assembler for Amiga, Atari ST and Super Nintendo, later in C++ for the PC — and moved from programming into project and development management, in the end as head of development.

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In 1998 I founded Funatics together with my longtime friends Thorsten Kneisel and Thomas Friedmann. I worked as programmer and game designer, and took on technical management and consulting for games on PC and handhelds.

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I developed FunNetX, a server technology in C++ that ran five browser MMO games, connected them to the user and payment systems of partners and licensees, and took responsibility for hosting and monitoring — for Cultures Online first at a hosting partner, later on AWS. In the same years we made Valhalla Hills, a building strategy game for PC and consoles: I was its creative director and project manager, worked on the game design and programmed the game logic in C++.

C++ serversFlash / ActionScriptPayment systemsAWSUnreal Engine

I worked on an MMO backend engine in Go on Kubernetes and set up the whole backend infrastructure. Today I contribute as a senior developer to PC and console titles — and use AI as a multiplier in my daily work. Right now I am building a new backend in Go for a title that is not announced yet.

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