Chris Deleon

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Chris DeLeon is a PhD student in Digital Media at Georgia Tech. He was honored in Forbes Under for his work on iOS Entertainment apps, including an IndieCade finalist, feelforit, and a best-selling app in winter , Topple. He's been a lead or solo developer for dozens of completed freeware games, averaging or more releases annually since , not including hundreds of experimental gameplay prototypes he made daily -. Chris established prolific videogame development clubs at Carnegie Mellon and Georgia Tech, and has served as a professional videogame designer for Electronic Arts, Will Wrights Stupid Fun Club, and as the th hire at ZipZapPlay, a Silicon Valley start-up later acquired by PopCap. He created and writes for HobbyGameDev.com, a videogame development blog now in its fifth year. For his Master's thesis DeLeon studied the business influences and game design parallels connecting pinball to early coin-op videogames. Specialties Videogame design, rapid prototyping (digital playable), CCObj-C, project management, ActionScript , OpenGL, Unreal Engine, Unity, Photoshop, Office (WordExcelVisioPPT), PCWiiiPhone development, teaching videogame development, writing for gameplay, pinball maintenance and minor repair read more ...