Florian Trippe

I started programming while I was still at school. This was when I first came into contact with the Unity Engine. Since I already liked playing games at that time and also made up my own, I began to familiarise myself with the engine.

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After graduating from school in 2017, I enrolled in the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Dortmund. However, I quickly realised that I wanted to program creatively and so I used the time to improve my English skills and to familiarise myself with the Unity and Unreal engines. I used the lectures at university to teach myself the basics of various programming languages.

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In 2019, I enrolled at the Mediadesign Hochschule Düsseldorf in the Game Design department. There, a dedicated group of students quickly gathered, who today forms the team CoreCraft. In the first semester, before the pandemic, we used the university's facilities after seminars to paln projects, develop new games and exchange with professors. Even after remote schooling began, we stayed connected.

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With weekly team meetings and regular design exercises, we developed our semester projects. I also presented them in my portfolio. With each semester, we encountered new challenges and learned not only game design, but also every single stage of the process of creating a game. I quickly became the deputy team leader and lead programmer of our team. This meant that my tasks were not only designing games and programming game mechanics, but also managing and distributing tasks and communicating with professors.

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Currently, we are working on our fifth semester project Dwørves. In my spare time, I am expanding my C++ skills to further develop my skillset in programming.