Michael Wang

About Me

I am a web and game developer with over 5 years of combined and currently using Rails, JavaScript, and React.js. I enjoy using a variety of technologies and reading through the source code to understand what goes on under the hood and how the architecture is laid out.

I have lead the development of games and delivered licensed versions on time to a number of companies making sure the release and maintenance of each goes smoothly. I also developed a game framework that has run on millions of machines providing a consistent experience to players with varying hardware.

In order to meet the demands of clients and reduce risk of development, I emphasized rapid iteration using agile methodology and sprints to test prototypes and improve designs.

Resume: http://www.mwguy.com/docs/wang_michael_resume.pdf

Latest Projects

Code Splat

A crowd sourced code annotation site.

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Code Splat is a web application for annotating code and text. It was inspired by RapGenius and built using Ruby on Rails and React.js.

Code is displayed with highlights and correct indentations through CodeMirror integration for the viewer and editor. In order to highlight text for annotations, the character index had to be calculated from the line and character due to the differences between the library's format and the way the data is stored on the backend. The calculated index is stored and converted back when the text is rendered in order to highlight spots that are annotated.

Blockgineer 2 - Physics Puzzle Game

Blockgineer 2 is a puzzle physics game where the goal is to build a path to get all the balls to the correct doors. Includes a map editor and an online map browser.

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JSES - Interactive Web Application Framework

JSES is a framework for creating interactive web applications. It uses a component based architecture to reduce coupling and promote reusability. The core framework includes optional systems such as input, rendering, and physics.

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Blockstachio - Metroidvania Style Game

Blockstachio is a 2D platformer with multiple power ups, bosses, and secrets.

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Other Projects

galehx Open Source

A high performance game framework that supports both an inheritance and a composition based architecture. Seamlessly renders thousands of dynamic objects and handles input, state transitions, audio, resource loading, and more.

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Work Experience

Co-Founder and Lead Developer - Halboom LLC (2009 - Present)

As an independent game developer and designer, I programmed and designed in-house game frameworks, libraries, websites, and web games.

Lead the development and design of games which resulted in over 20 million plays from millions of users.
Developed a game framework that sped up development time greatly.
Sought out and obtained sponsors and sold licenses for the games.
Sought out games to sponsor and helped them reach millions of players worldwide.