Erlend Sogge Heggen

Game Developer

https://www.opentalent.in/erlend-sogge-heggen

Founder of @muni-town & @spicylobstergames; Formerly @discourse

Muni Town

Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience in game development, particularly with Rust and various game engines/libraries (Bevy, Amethyst, Godot, RLTK).
Demonstrated proficiency in Rust for game development, including ECS libraries (legion) and Lua bindings (rlua).
Experience with different game genres (2D shooter, MOBA, roguelike, ecosystem simulation) showcases versatility.
Active involvement in the Rust game development community (Game Development Working Group, gamedev.rs).

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate's extensive personal projects in game development align well with a passionate, self-driven culture. However, the lack of diverse professional experience outside of game development and a single current role (with a future start date) might indicate a narrow scope of industry exposure. The target role 'Game Developer' is a direct match for the candidate's demonstrated interests and skills.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills and operational fit. The psychometric test score is 0, providing no insights.

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Projects

shotcaller-godot

January 18, 2022 – October 24, 2023

2D top-down 1v1 MOBA with autonomous units. Design doc below 👇

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jumpy

June 22, 2021 – Present

Tactical 2D shooter in fishy pixels style. Made with Rust-lang 🦀 and Bevy 🪶

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rustrogueliketutorial

August 12, 2019 – March 23, 2024

Roguelike Tutorial in Rust - using RLTK

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bracket-lib

July 2, 2019 – December 5, 2025

The Roguelike Toolkit (RLTK), implemented for Rust.

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rust-gamedev.github.io

June 27, 2019 – August 28, 2025

The repository for https://gamedev.rs

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June 6, 2019 – May 12, 2021

Coordination repository of the Game Development Working Group

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thetawave-legacy

May 21, 2019 – July 22, 2021

A space shooter game made with Amethyst and Rust.

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legion

March 9, 2019 – December 30, 2021

High performance Rust ECS library

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evoli

February 18, 2019 – July 24, 2021

An ecosystem-simulation game made with Amethyst

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rlua

May 21, 2017 – July 20, 2024

High level Lua bindings to Rust

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Key Strengths

Extensive personal project experience in game development, particularly with Rust and various game engines/libraries (Bevy, Amethyst, Godot, RLTK).
Demonstrated proficiency in Rust for game development, including ECS libraries (legion) and Lua bindings (rlua).
Experience with different game genres (2D shooter, MOBA, roguelike, ecosystem simulation) showcases versatility.
Active involvement in the Rust game development community (Game Development Working Group, gamedev.rs).

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills and operational fit. The psychometric test score is 0, providing no insights.

Erlend Sogge Heggen

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit

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Projects

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit