Portfolio
A collection of my featured games and other projects/works.
- Featured Unity Games
- Other projects
About
I am primarily a programmer and game designer
With 3 years experience in Unity.
- Location: Oslo, Norway (Open to relocation)
- Current position: Bachelor student
- Email:
🦘 I grew up in Australia, spent 5 years of my late teens in The Netherlands, and currently studying in Norway.
🛶 I love being outdoors hiking or kayaking, and playing games with friends whether it be board games or video games.
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Experience
Here is a breakdown of what I spend the majority of my workdays on.
Interpersonal skills:
CV
Summary
Aedan Soellaart
I'm accustomed to working in deadline-driven environments, with multiple long-term game projects under my belt as well as 3 game jam games. I have experience making many genres: 2D, 3D, VR, mobile, multiplayer and serious games, as well as managing a dev team. I can effectively communicate with every department involved. I have a strong grasp of top-down design, object-oriented programming and game design principles.
- Oslo, Norway (Open to relocation)
Education
Games and Entertainment Technology Bachelor's Degree
2021 - 2024
Nord University, Levanger, Norway
I have had courses on C#, game design, systems, web and database development, audio engineering, implementation, and middleware, 3D modelling, animation, publishing and professionalism. I also coordinated a team of 5 people to pitch and develop a game in my first semester. By the end of the course I would have been a part of 6 full game projects: each semester I work with a new team pitching and creating a unique game.
International Baccalaureate
2018 - 2021
Rivers International, Arnhem, The Netherlands
IB is an internationally recognized diploma programme, effectivley a “university preparation program”. It fostered an open-minded, culturally-aware and critical-thinking mindset in me. I achieved a grade 35 out of 45. Extracurricular organisations that I managed inlcuded the school newspaper and the Tech Club.
Work Experience
Social Workshop Host
Sept 2022 - June 2023
Excited Centre of Excellent IT Education, Trøndelag, Norway
- Reference: Robin Isfold Munkvold (Click for contact details)
I host workshops to playtest games and help students in areas such as Unity familiarity, C# fluency, effective UI, graphic and game design.
My job is to create presentations, give talks, answer questions, test students' games, give feedback, as well as facilitate industry professionals giving talks. I work in a team that prepares and hosts social workshops every week.
The workshops are the result of a collaboration between Nord University and NTNU, known as Excited Centre of Excellent IT Education.
Volunteering Work
Event Manager
Oct 2021 - Present
InDevelopment, Levanger, Norway
Within this student organization known as InDevelopment I work in a team that prepares and hosts social workshops intended for media students. I prepare, set up and host board game nights, movie nights, game testing sessions, quiz nights, LAN parties and bowling events.
Testimonials
Marija Padovan
Artist
Aedan is such a great colleague, always willing to help and collaborate! I worked with Aedan in the same team during our 3D programming module last semester where I, as an artist, needed to be more programming oriented to produce something of a value. He was always there when I had some bugs in my code and when Unity wasn't able to run my scripts. Aedan is such a Problem Solver Soul! Also, he is really open to socialise outside school too. Happy to work with him anytime.
Bastian Engø
Game Designer
Aedan is fantastic to work with as he always thinks ahead and takes initiative on tasks to ensure we have a good production flow. Also easy to talk with and a joy to be around!
Benjamin Berg
Systems Programmer
I have worked with Aedan on at least 3 projects during our studies, and I must say he is a complete joy to work with, he is an amazing UI artist and does most of the UI work on our projects. However, he possesses many more skills proven to be useful in Game Development. I would say he is more of a jack of all trades, not only is he a great artist, but he is also capable of handling logic and programming, and has also done a lot of programming work in the projects as well.
Sunniva Johnsen-Bjørhusdal
Programmer
Aedan was the team lead for our first game project. He was a workhorse, always coming in first and leaving last, spending long hours during weekends and holidays to get our project ahead. He also took responsibility for submitting the game to the Norwegian Game Awards, and even came to my apartment personally to get me when I overslept for one of the NGA days. He was a driven and dedicated lead, kept great personal communication with every member, and ensured the product was something we could be proud of.
Contact
Want to get in contact? I'd love to chat! Best way to reach me is through LinkedIn or email ().
