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Bryan Dismas, 21, is a game developer from Singapore. He specializes in programming game engines, designing application architectures and real-time visual effects with shaders. Holding a merit diploma in Digital Entertainment Technology, he aspires to run an indie game studio and eventually secure a foothold in the game industry.
Bryan started fiddling with computers since the age of 6. By 7 he had mastered the DOS commands and started to learn HTML. After coding in Javascript for 3 years he continued to Actionscript (Flash 5) and finally Visual Basic by the age of 12. Bryan picked up C during secondary school (high school) during computer appreciation class, but continued to develop mainly in Visual Basic until he was 16. He also started working on a community MUD during this time. Alura Online (Graphical MUD) was finally released in 2006 and was maintained for 3 years.
By 17, Bryan had enrolled in Nanyang Polytechnic (college), taking the Diploma in Digital Entertainment Technology and majoring in Game Programming. He picked up C++ and an array of other languages during this time. During his industrial attachment program, he participated in the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab summer internship, where he met other like minded individuals and produced the game prototype: Phorm. During the production of Phorm, Bryan was tasked with integrating the game’s core skeletal animation library, Pinocchio and dealt with the adaptation of the library to better suit the games/real-time usage.
After graduating from Polytechnic, Bryan worked as a game programmer for Atomic Gaming Innovations working on the company’s core games framework, and later on the slot machine video game Chingchillas. Atomic Gaming Innovations utilized various open source software, and Bryan was tasked to design a modular system to tie these libraries together to form the foundation for Atomic Gaming Applications. He was also in charge of visual effects programming and shaders for Chingchillas.
Apart from creating games, he also enjoys playing them during his free time. Some of the games he currently is playing include: World of Warcraft, God of War 3, Final Fantasy XIII and Trine.
