Nikita Gurkov

Researched different kinds of games from console to board, user interfaces, game mechanics, gamers psychology with Games Lab at the Hexagram Institute at Concordia University. Technologies: PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PC.

Developed prototypes and games for social change using Unity for iOS, created projects architecture and prerequisites, participated in game design document development, took a proactive role in brainstorming process. Technologies: C#, Unity, Objective-C, iOS, XML, Mac OS X, Jira, GitHub.

Developed and ported mobile games, web games and mobile applications using Unity for iOS and Android, Actionscript and Flash, Objective-C and Xcode, worked one on one with clients from USA and Russia, managed small development team, wrote weekly reports. Technologies: C#, Unity, .NET Sockets, Objective-C, Xcode, UIKit, MapKit, C++, ActionScript, Flash, XML, JSON, Facebook API, GameCenter, In App Purchases, iOS, Android, Mac OS X, Windows, SVN, Mercurial, Perforce.

Developed my own flash games, from game design to maintenance. Technologies: ActionScript 3, Flash, Box2d, SVN.

Developed web games, mini games, client-server architecture, game server, GUI systems, artificial intelligence system (A* navigation, enemies and npc AI system) and participated in web portal development, ported existing Windows based game server with database to Linux platform. Technologies: C#, Unity, SmartFox Server, XNA, .NET Sockets, WCF, WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, AJAX, XML, SQL, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Windows, Ubuntu.

Developed various kind of software starting from web sites and educational client-server applications to laboratory examples and student tests for Software Development course for distant students at local university. Technologies: C#, C++, Delphi, .NET Sockets, WCF, WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, AJAX, XML, SQL, MS SQL Server, Firebird, Win32 API, Windows, Ubuntu, MS Project.