Anders Findal Jørgensen
I am a 27-year-old game designer from Norway. I like to make cool art and mess with technology. I am looking for work as a game designer or something fittingly adjacent. Currently, I am working on a prototype about growing plants. You can see some of that on the projects page. The goal is to polish my coding skills while making something cool.
I have always been fascinated by games. It was an escape from daily life at a young age. But it wasn't before entering high school that I realised I could actually make them too. Since that realisation, I couldn't shake the thought that this was the only thing I wanted to do for a living.
If you want to work with me, please contact me at this email.
fj.anders@gmail.com
Education
Aug 2017–Jun 2020
Høyskolen Kristiania – Game Design Bachelor
I have comprehensive schooling in Gamedesign and its satellite disciplines, such as Level Design and System Design. The degree also covers the broader spectrum of disciplines in the industry to gain the knowledge to deliver games and sell them. These were programming, marketing, project management, pre-production and prototyping.
Experience
Sep 2023–Continuing
Game Tester - Hyper Games AS
Working as a Tester on Hyper Games news title “Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley”. In progress of taking ISTQB Foundation level testing certificate exam.
Feb 2021–Aug 2023
Participant - Funkweb AS
Worked on self defined projects to better my prospects in the job market. Developed this website, learning HTML and CSS with the Bootstrap framework in the process. Made an internal game with RenPy for Funkweb that guides new participants through the office. Did design and planning for participant started project in Unity. Designing and programming own project based on procedural plant structures with Unity.
Jan 2020–May 2020
Junior Game Designer - Hyper Games AS
Worked at Hyper games as a Junior Game Designer while writing my bachelor thesis project on techniques to make games feel good. Learned to make basic shaders with shader-graph like water, swaying trees/grass and experimented a lot.
Jan 2019–Feb 2019
QA Tester - Hyper Games AS
“Alfie Atkins: Smoothie” - Testing under development before being published on the Apple Store. “Eggggg: The Platform Puker” - Testing for the port to Nintendo Switch and Steam.
Volunteer Work
Feb 2023 – Continuing
Participant - Bibliogames
Bibliogames is a volunteer organisation whose mission is to educate librarians and people in general about games. Many libraries in Norway don't have access to the kind of equipment games require. This is where Bibliogames comes in and gives kids and adults alike the opportunity to see games as more than just Fortnite and Minecraft. There is beauty and knowledge in games.
Jan 2019 – Continuing
Crew - Global Game Jam Oslo
Since 2019 I've been helping Trygve Bjelvåg with progressively more tasks for Global Game Jam. Always exausting, but giving in equal measure.
Skills
Game dev
Unity
I have the most experience with using Unity when crating games. All of my game design, programming, system design and shader knowledge I have learned while using Unity.
Unreal
Most of my experience with Unreal is in Level Design and basic blueprint work. You can see examples of my Level Design in the Cyberpunky project.
Art
Aseprite
I have used a few pixel art focused programs, and have pretty much landed on Aseprite as my default for pixel art asset creation and animation.
Clip Studio Paint
Recently picked up CSP and I'm really enjoying drawin in it. Planning on testing out the animation features and maybe make some small comics.
Blender
I've made the donut and some simpler models for my prototype projects. I want to do more.
Programming
C# with Unity
I have basic to intermediate knowledge of C#. I can solve most problems with time, but I need more experience to get more comfortable with programming. I have taken a course in C# to sure up my knowledge about the programming language.
HTML CSS and Bootstrap
During quarantine I learned how to make websites. I'm pretty proud of making this website by myself, it's been a fun project. This website is purely HTML, CSS and Bootstrap. So my knowledge about how to make websites is limited to those fields.
Interests
Cooking
I enjoy cooking. Due to the limitations of small apartments in Oslo, I don't have an oven, to my ever burning frustration. So I mostly cook things that fit in a pot or frying pan. A lot of Asian food is primarily prepared in a pan or pot, so my repertoire is heavily weighted towards that.
Custom keyboards
2020 was a really boring year so I got into making and collecting custom keybards. On my free time I help the keyboard designers Protozoa Studio with questions on their discord. You can find some pictures on my twitter (Press the twitter icon at the top of this website).
Building computers
I got into building my, and my friend's computers after my dad and I built one in my early teens. Since then, whenever I get the chance, I really get into finding the parts and making them look as good as I can.
Space and Plants
Space has always fascinated me, while plants are a newer interest. I like learning facts about these things in a very casual and unhurried manner. I read many sci-fi books in my free time, and I'm making a game about growing plants.