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Benjamin Rauscher
Qualification :
Head of Studio and Project Lead
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Head of Studio and Project Lead

About our Client

  • Co-Founder and 15-year director of a successful German game development studio with up to 40 employees
  • Directed and shipped 9 games on 9 different platforms
  • Co-Creator of the hugely popular Dungeons series
  • Technically, economically, and creatively minded perfectionist with a background in computer science and many years of management experience

Achievements

C# in der Spieleentwicklung

Published in Making Games Magazine 02/2010

Physically Based Simulation on GPUs

TU München , Chair of Computer Graphics and Visualization

Published 2008 by VDM

Coding

C#, Java, C++, VBA, OpenGL, Cg, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTMLv

Professional Experience

Head of Studio and Project Lead

  • Project planning and direction for 9 published games as well as several add-ons and DLCs for 9 different gaming platforms
  • Build and managed a development team of up to 40 employees
  • Responsible for production budgets of up to 6M EUR per game
  • Game direction, vision keeping and conceptual-/system-design
  • Responsible for government funding for all produced games
  • Point of contact to publishing, external service providers and media
  • Successfully transformed the studio to work on two parallel projects, since taking over the development of a game
  • Sold Studio to a Media Group
  • Co-Founded Studio in Oct 2008

Executive Director and Shareholder

  • Acquisition, project management and support for dynamic web applications
  • Technical conception and programming
  • Used technologies: Java, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTML

Education

Technical University Academic degree: Diploma Information (focus: software engineering, computer graphics – minor: mathematics)

DAAD scholarship for the University of Otago, New Zealand Academic degree: Postgraduate Diploma in Science – final grade: 79%(Major: Information Science, Minor: Environmental Science)

Vordiplom in Computer Science

Techno-Mathematics at TUM

Internships

Implementation of dynamic web applications with PHP, MySQL and HTML

Integration of ODE and real-time cloth-simulation for their game Ankhusing Ogre3D and C++

Development of sensor-visualization and controls for a reconnaissance aircraft in a simulated real-time map environment using OpenGL and C++

Development and maintenance of dynamic document- and presentationtemplates in Microsoft Office using VBA

Faculty for Computer Science – Tutor

Tutor for several lectures in computer science: Introduction to ComputerScience I & III, Discrete Structures I and Visual Basic programming

Interests

Skills

Technical Skills

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