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- Furkan Calisir
fURKAN CALISIR
Experience
2024
Beaver Byte Studio & Project Knockout
Already during my Masters I decided with three friends together to create an indie game studio in Germany. With our idea “Project Knockout” we went to the state and secured funding. At the point of writing we are working on the prototype.
Project Knockout is an 8-Player Party Brawler. All players need to knock out their opponents and secure the Gear-Crown to win the match. One match is seperated into rounds and between each round everybody can place an interactive element in the level. Additionally all base-level elements can be destroyed (thanks to Marching-Cubes). We are using Unity and Epics Online Services to create this project and are currently searching for a publisher.
2023
Japan & Master Thesis
In the first quarter of 2023 I needed to leave the University group as my exchange semester in Japan started. For 6 months I did my Master-Thesis at the Osaka University together with the Takemura Lab. For my research I wanted to find out “How does cultural heritage influence decision making in Video Games”. I created a small story driven top-down game and surveyed german and japanese people. The results will be published at the end of 2023.
2022
Project Honu
In summer of 2022 I grouped up with some people of my University and we created the game development team of Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg. After a small warmup with the GMTK Jam 2022 we started the project “Project Honu”. A story driven game in which the player is stranded on an island on a turtle with a group of few NPCs. Together with them the player will try to figure out various mysteries and riddles, build up relationships with the group and create a small town.
2021
Ludum Dare 48
I joined Ludum Dare for the first time together with some friends. We all did our Corona Tests, met up in my apartment and just did what was fun for three straight days. This experience helped me to understand just how much fun it can be to create a game and I will definitly do it again.
2014 - present
Personal Projects
I started back in school using some of my free time to start projects for fun, which evolved into projects to learn more about the matter. Many of these Projects were cancelled, many never had a satisfying result, but every single one of them was lots of fun and I am always looking for the next idea to try out.
About Me
I am a gamer. And I love to be part of this community. I didn’t start creating games, because I needed to, I just wanted to create something I would enjoy myself and on the way I learned how much fun the creation process itself is. Since then I try to step my foot into the gaming industry. One of those steps is the creation of my own Studio next year together with government funding.
Education
2024
Founding of Beaver Byte Studio
2023
Master Visual Computing & Games Technology: 1,5
2021
Bachelor Visual Computing & Design: 1,9
2017
Abitur (A-Level)
Skills
Unity
Unreal Engine 5
C#
C++
Java
Blender
Autodesk Programs
Adobe Programs
Html5 (JS, CSS, SQL)
Microsoft Office
Passion for Games