Håkan Levin

Ittle Dew

The first time I was employed at Ludosity was to work on Ittle Dew close to it's release. I mainly worked on fixing minor bugs.

After release I also did my first porting job for Ludosity, I was supposed to get Ittle Dew onto the Ouya, which was somewhat of a challenge.

None of the shaders would initially load, resulting in just a pink screen for some builds. Once the game was playable it ran at about five frames per second. So there was alot of optimization to do.

Even though some effects had to be scaled down somewhat, the game was able to launch successfully

Ittle Dew 1, Ludosity

Skydive

This game was created together with 16 other student over ten weeks as part of a course called Game Development Project 2.

We decided to create this game using Unreal Development Kit, which helped the project in multiple ways. For example, this meant that our designers could use the landscape tool to create the map.

My main responsibility was to create some of the actual gameplay, meaning things like the trick and score system.

After the ten weeks, the project was continued for short while by a smaller group of people, but was ultimately abandoned.

Magicka: Wizards of the Square Tablet

Ludosity was contracted by Paradox Interactive to create a tablet spinoff of Magicka, resulting in this game.

After release, Paradox wanted to put the game on more platforms. I worked closely with them, porting the game to Amazon's (then unannounced) Fire TV.

This project mainly entailed creating gamepad controls for the game, and hooking it up to Amazon's micro transaction API.

The Fire TV never became the hit game console some had hoped for, and the port went largely unnoticed.

Magicka: Wizards of the Square Tablet, Paradox Interactive

Ludosity's Steamworks Wrapper

Continuing the development of this project was my first task when joining the company as an intern. After catching up on the current code, it quickly became up to date.

With the lowered price from $300 to $50, continious updates and customer support the plugin gained popularity fast and was used by a great deal of developers wanting to get their game on steam.

The project was discontinued late in 2014 when I left the company. The code went open-source, but never gained much attention due to the dropped support and rising popularity of competitor steamworks.net

My github fork of the project

Fret Nice

My time at Pieces Interactive, working at Fret Nice, was a very valuable experiance. Although short, I learned a great deal. It was my first job in the game development industry, and my first and only job as quality assurance. We also worked very closely with the developers of the game and were provided with internal test specifications from them, as well as TCR/TRC's from SONY and Microsft respectively.

The internal test spec was often about making sure levels could be completed, and things were balanced. The TCR/TRC was more technical, like making sure you could always go back to the playstation/xbox menu and thing like that.

Letter of recommendation
Fret Nice, Pieces Interactive

School projects

During my years attending University of Skövde, I made several projects for coursework. The projects showcased here are from courses in Game Physics and Artificial Intelligence, as they are easy to provide pictures for.

I will work towards setting up a github page with many of my projects which can't easily be provided through pictures. During a course in Operating Systems I added syscalls and reprogrammed the process scheduler in the minimalistic linux-based OS Minix.