Dennis

Schau

Andersen

Game developer, Web Developer and Dungeon Master

About

I'm a developer from the cold and dreary Denmark

I have honed my skills across a broad range of technologies.

I'm a versatile developer with expertise in design, UX, and implementation. I work on game development, XR experiences, web apps, and static sites. My focus is on creating engaging features and user-friendly interfaces, blending creativity with practical execution for robust solutions.

Creativity is at the heart of my work.

From designing engaging game mechanics and immersive AR/VR experiences to developing dynamic web applications, I strive to push the boundaries of conventional design. I enjoy creating systems that blend technical skill with innovative thinking, delivering solutions that are both functional and imaginative.

I’m a passionate gamer who loves diving into new worlds and discussing game mechanics. Outside of coding, you’ll find me exploring indie games, reminiscing about classics like Ocarina of Time, or enjoying casual get-togethers with friends. I balance hard work with creativity and fun, always open to new experiences and adventures.

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Back End

Game Dev

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Frontend Engineer

Codecademy

Fullstack Engineer

Codecademy

Digital Devotion Games

2021-2023

Chief Technology Officer

Digital Devotion Games, founded in 2019 by me and a group of friends, received funding in 2021. Our main project was Project Tumble, a multiplayer roguelite game designed for exciting journeys with friends. Given our small studio size, I took on various roles within the project. Unfortunately, the game was left unfinished due to funding constraints.

𝐂𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬:

Managed procurement and maintenance of essential software.
Primary focus on Unity and version control system.
Oversaw all critical aspects of the codebase.
Managed a team of programmers.

𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Acted as the primary liaison between different teams.
Collaborated closely with animators, artists, and audio designers.

𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲:

Supported artists by creating shaders.
Researched and implemented tools.
Optimized visual effects (VFX).

Accelerace Invest

2021-2021

Accelarator Participant

3-month long accelerator program in entrepreneurship, project management, and business development with 3 elimination rounds. Digital Devotion Games survived all 3 investment rounds, securing investment. Digital Devotion Games survived all 3 investment rounds, securing investment.

Aalborg University

2017-2019

Master of Science - MS, Medialogi

Completing my master's degree in Medialogy solidified the knowledge I gained during my bachelor's studies and provided me with specialized courses that enhanced my skills in game development.

𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

Courses such as AI Programming, Game Design, and Narrative Design deepened my understanding and practical skills in creating engaging and innovative game experiences.

𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬:

Developed effective teamwork, clear communication of ideas, and the ability to integrate feedback for improved project outcomes.

𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲:

Equipped with the skills to implement advanced features and solve complex problems within game projects.

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

Encouraged a research-oriented approach, allowing exploration of cutting-edge topics in media technology and game development.

Aalborg University

2014-2017

Bachelor in medialogy, Computersoftware and Media Applications

During my bachelor's degree in Medialogy at AAU, I gained extensive experience with problem-based learning, a core aspect of the university's educational approach.

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧:

Explored the principles of interaction design, creating user-centric experiences that enhance engagement and usability.

𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠:

Worked with sound engineering and image processing, creating software for audio production and image analysis, including motion capture.

𝐀𝐑/𝐕𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀/𝐕 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:

Engaged with augmented and virtual reality technologies, designing and developing innovative AR/VR experiences.

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭:

Through diverse coursework and hands-on projects, developed a broad skill set applicable to many areas of game development and media technology.

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2 4 Days VS Code

Echobeat

Full Stack

EchoBeat is a Spotify-inspired music streaming platform built using modern web technologies. It allows users to browse, search, and play their favorite tracks while offering a sleek and responsive user interface.

2 4 Days VS Code

SnapStash

Full Stack

I built SnapStash to showcase my web development skills, using Cloudinary for image management and Next.js with React (TypeScript) for fast, responsive performance. The interface, designed with Tailwind CSS, is clean and fully adaptable to any device.

2 4 Days VS Code

OpenBook

Full Stack

This Blog Post App lets users create, read, edit, and delete posts. It uses Firebase for data storage and authentication, and is built with React, Tailwind CSS, and HTML for a clean, responsive experience.

2 2 Days VS Code

Mandatory Weather App

Full Stack

This is a Weather App built with React, Vite, CSS, HTML, and Tailwind CSS. It fetches and displays real-time weather data for any location entered by the user. Designed to be lightweight and user-friendly, it provides current weather conditions, including temperature, humidity, and more.

2 2 Days VS Code

SuperChat

Full Stack

This is a Group Chat App built with React, Vite, CSS, HTML, and Firebase. It enables real-time messaging for multiple users, with simple authentication and Firebase database integration for storing messages. A lightweight solution for group discussions with user authentication and message persistence.

2 1 Day VS Code

Watchlist

Full Stack

This Watch List App helps users organize and manage a watch collection by adding details like name and serial number, and organizing them into categories. It uses Supabase for backend and is built with Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, and HTML.

2 2 Weeks VS Code

Portfolio Page

Full Stack

Welcome to my portfolio website! Built with React, Vite, CSS, and HTML, it showcases my skills, projects, and info about me. Feel free to explore and customize it!

2 8 Hours VS Code

Escapen't web page

Front end

This is the official homepage for Escapen't, a thrilling escape room game! Built with HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript, the site showcases the game's storyline, features, and introduces the development team, offering a clean and interactive user experience.

8 2 Years Unity

Project Tumble

Technical Artist, Programmer, CTO

Gather your friends, collect synergistic gadgets, and bust some slugs! Play as a kick-ass squad of inventive trouble-makers, the ‘Slug Busters’, in their quest to fight back a sudden invasion of slug monsters arriving with meteors

3 3 Days Unity

High Goon

Programmer

Yee-Haw Pardner! There are too many Goons in this town! Shoot Goons to earn cash & buy upgrades. You die if you die!

4 3 days Unity

Steam Stonks

Programmer

Produce steam and sell it for money. Compete on online leaderboards in this hectic first-person steam-farming game!

3 3 Days Unity

Pirates Dice

Programmer

Take revenge on the crew that betrayed ye' in a fateful game of Pirate's Dice! Made during GMTK Jam July 2022 based on 'Roll of the Dice" theme.

3 3 Days Unity

Cottagegore

Programmer

Play as a normal swan, enjoying the paradisical nature surrounding you - by entering a murderous breadlust!

3 3 Days Unity

Mean Squirrel

Programmer

Play as Ratatoskr (pronounced: Ra-ta-tosk-urhh), the gossip-y messenger of Yggdrasil, as you deliver insults to the Eagle at the top (Overworld) and Nidhogg at the bottom (Underworld) of the tree.

7 3 Days Unity

Blade And Fang

Programmer

Grab your weapon and parry your way to victory in this first-person boss rush game. Play as the wielder of Boris the Soulblade and charge up the sword's magical powers by parrying devastating attacks.

3 3 Days Unity

Alien Encounter

Programmer

You and a group of talented, young, highly-trained and poorly paid Space Team Men, has been assigned mission: "Alien Encounter".

4 3 Days Unity

Mission Strike at midnight

Programmer

Steer the spaceship around oncomming obstacles! Unfortunately we have had some bugs, making each steering-computer only cabaple of controling the ship in one direction!

4 3 Days Unity

We Are Corgis

Programmer

Team up with your corgi butties and snatch Chef Squiddy's Good-boy-treats! But watch out! He's armed with tentacle-pets🦑! Can Squiddy keep all four corgi butts off his table?

3 5 Months Unity

A drop of water

Developer and Designer

This project will strive to research how a VR experience for edutainment can be de- veloped to portray the life cycle of a water droplet from cloud to earth and back again

4 3 Days Unity

VRinyl2000

Programmer

Flick Vinyls at the boring non-hype, non-electric-boogaloo non-shuffling & non-dancing men in the skatepark

4 5 Months Unity

Fading Lights

Developer and Designer

This project attempts to create what is commonly known as affective gaming. We have implemented real-time voice and physiological analysis in a VR horror setting, allowing for affective analysis of user during gameplay. This analysis will then be utilized to alter gameplay according to the intensity of the affective state fear, found in user.

17 5 Months Unity

Eventide

Technical Artist, Programmer

Assume the role of a powerful Shadow Monk and delve deep into the mysterious realm of Eventide.

4 3 Days Unity

This is not my child

Programmer

In this VR game, one player must identify their child at daycare but has forgotten what they look like. Their spouse gives clues over the phone using family photos and a journal.

4 5 Months Unity

Intangible Cultural Heritage

Developer and Designer

This paper describes the development of a Vir- tual Experience using a virtual reality (VR) Bow controller, developed as a medium for the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of hunting amongst Namibian San tribes.

4 5 Months Unity

CSharpia

Developer and Designer

The focus of this project is to better understand how GBL can be affected by implementing elements of game design and aspects of continuation de- sire into a GBL game. The goal is to un- derstand whether players conation to con- tinue playing can be enhanced. This was done by creating a prototype of a game that teaches concepts of programming and uses game design to increase conation of players.

6 5 Months Unity

Sweet Victory

Developer and Designer

The aim of this project is to create a 3D game with the cooperation of the AirConsole company that uses smartphones as controllers, as required by the platform. Furthermore, the game would be a part of the experiment for measuring the influence of different gaming setups on the player’s excitement.

7 5 Months Pure Data

Beat the rhythm

Developer and Designer

4th semester project with the topic: Sound Computing and Sensor Technology. In this report, rhythm was set as the motivational factor, which was researched further on. From there, it was decided to build a drum kit with the goal of improving peoples rhythmic ability. The initial concept was tested through an contextual inquiry, and later a physical product was created to evaluate upon

6 5 Months Unity

Magic Movement

Developer and Designer

This year’s project had the theme Visual Computing-Human Perception, where the purpose was to make a software, which tracks hand movement.

7 5 Months Android Studio

MoveMania

Developer and Designer

This project involved creating a mobile application that motivates children to variate their exercise more. 2 out of 3 Danish children ages 11-15 are currently not getting the required 60 minutes of exercise each day. This in conjunction with the fact that 84% of the 11-year-old Danish children are already participating in sport [Ottosen et al., 2014b] points toward a need for more variation in their exercise to supplement the 60 minutes of exercise.

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Dennis

Schau

Andersen

Game developer, Web Developer and Dungeon Master

About

I'm a developer from the cold and dreary Denmark

Skills

Experience

Front End

Back End

Game Dev

Tools

Languages

Certificates

Frontend Engineer

Codecademy

Fullstack Engineer

Codecademy

Digital Devotion Games

Chief Technology Officer

𝐂𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬:

Managed procurement and maintenance of essential software.

Primary focus on Unity and version control system.

Oversaw all critical aspects of the codebase.

Managed a team of programmers.

𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Acted as the primary liaison between different teams.

Collaborated closely with animators, artists, and audio designers.

𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲:

Supported artists by creating shaders.

Researched and implemented tools.

Optimized visual effects (VFX).

Accelerace Invest

Accelarator Participant

Aalborg University

Master of Science - MS, Medialogi

𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

Courses such as AI Programming, Game Design, and Narrative Design deepened my understanding and practical skills in creating engaging and innovative game experiences.

𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬:

Developed effective teamwork, clear communication of ideas, and the ability to integrate feedback for improved project outcomes.

𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲:

Equipped with the skills to implement advanced features and solve complex problems within game projects.

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

Encouraged a research-oriented approach, allowing exploration of cutting-edge topics in media technology and game development.

Aalborg University

Bachelor in medialogy, Computersoftware and Media Applications

𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧:

Explored the principles of interaction design, creating user-centric experiences that enhance engagement and usability.

𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠:

Worked with sound engineering and image processing, creating software for audio production and image analysis, including motion capture.

𝐀𝐑/𝐕𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀/𝐕 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:

Engaged with augmented and virtual reality technologies, designing and developing innovative AR/VR experiences.

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭:

Through diverse coursework and hands-on projects, developed a broad skill set applicable to many areas of game development and media technology.

Projects

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Echobeat

Full Stack

SnapStash

Full Stack

OpenBook

Full Stack

Mandatory Weather App

Full Stack

SuperChat

Full Stack

Watchlist

Full Stack

Portfolio Page

Full Stack

Escapen't web page

Front end

Project Tumble

Technical Artist, Programmer, CTO

High Goon

Programmer

Steam Stonks

Programmer

Pirates Dice