Sam Vestby-Clarke / Senior Game & Software Developer / Portfolio

Senior Developer @ DragonBox Kahoot!

2022 - Present, Oslo / Making learning experiences and games for children both at home and in school.

Lead Game Developer @ Future We Want

2021 - 2022, UK Remote / Lead game developer building the team and MVP on a climate changed themed game funded by Innovate UK.

30 E-Learning Games for iDEA Foundation

2016-2021, London / Lead game designer & developer on this project completed over 3 million times.

BAFTA Young Game Designer

2019, London / Lead designer on this e-learning module for BAFTA, helping young people prep for their BAFTA Young Game Designer Award entry.

Gamified Videos / BT Skills for Tomorrow

2020-2021, London / Director on this project pushing the boundaries of interactive learning.

Capture the Flag Live Gaming Events for the UK police

2019-2021, London / Lead game designer and developer on three national game competition events reaching 65,000 kids in the UK.

Games over the years

2007-2012, London & Bristol / Game designer and developer on a large number of mini-games for clients like Unite, NESTA and Disney Media+.

WebGL 3D Content for The Royal British Legion

2014-2018, London / Lead developer and concept designer for this project engaging with over 1m people in the UK.

People hire me as a senior game/software designer and developer with 15 years of experience making web games and interactive content.

I ran my own digital agency for 10 years and understand end-to-end process of designing and developing successful games and digital content from scratch, and bridging the gap between design and development teams.

I've won awards from the likes of Awwwards and eConsultancy, and have been fortunate enough to deliver national campaign level projects for some of the biggest names in the UK.

I'm currently working as a senior developer at DragonBox, a Kahoot! company, making awesome learning experiences and games for children at school and at home.

I'm experienced with...

Design & Creative

Game Design
E-Learning / Gamification
Story and learning script writing
Rapid prototyping
Illustration (2D)
Animation (Spine, Rigging, AE)
UX Design

Development

Unity / C#
WebGL (Three.js, PixiJS, Phaser)
JavaScript, HTML5, CSS
Git, Gulp, Webpack
Server side (PHP, MySQL)

Management

Team leader
Project management
New business and pitching
Presentations
Business management

Indie Game Developer

Red Alder Island is a game I'm developing solo, and is currently in the early concept and prototyping stage.

Red Alder Island is an emotional exploration puzzle thriller. Set on a small abandoned island, you have to piece together clues to understand where each person in its community disappeared to.