Nathan Franke - Full Stack Developer

OpenPlayer - Open Source Music Player and Manager

• Fully integrated YouTube search and playback. The backend uses custom webm and opus parser.
• Easily import music from your computer and CDs.
• Clean, responsive interface supporting mobile and desktop HiDPI displays.
• Will eventually use neural networks and listening habits to recommend more music.

Development:

• OpenPlayer has a modular design built with Godot Engine. Thus each interface element can be mismatched or removed. This design allows very lightweight background play and battery saving.
• OpenPlayer was built with localization in mind, and it currently supports English, German, and Russian translations.

Awards:

• 🏆 1st Place in 2020 Conroe ISD Computer Science Team

This was my first competitive programming experience, but my team still prevailed against twenty challengers.

• 🏆 Winner of STEMFuse GOT Game Fall 2019
• 🏆 Winner of STEMFuse GOT Game Spring 2020
• 🏆 Winner of STEMFuse GOT Game Fall 2020

GOT Game is a bi-annual world-wide game development competition. Our games won three competitions in a row.

Released Games:

• Clonagon (Winner of GOT Game Fall 2020) - Play Now!

Goal: Control the triangle and avoid the walls.

This game used complex geometry shaders and rendered them for better runtime performance.

Difficulty scales forever, so higher times are exponentially more difficult.

• Tanks a lot! (Winner of GOT Game Spring 2020) - Play Now!

Goal: Defeat the enemy tanks to proceed to the next level!

Most sprites in this game were made in 3D software but rendered to 2D for the game. This conversion improves performance and works around a limitation with the game engine.

Enemy tanks have a complex AI that can navigate to the player and avoid bullets.

• Almost Massive (GoGodotJam 2021) - Play Now!

Goal: Destroy enemies to earn points. If you grow too large, you lose.

Almost Massive utilizes custom soft body dynamics. This physics allows for realistic and satisfying behavior.

• Clony Bird - Play Now!

Goal: Fly through the pipes to earn points.

This was my first public game prototype.

The procedural system allows generating a full screen of pipes even at extreme resolutions.

Dissonance - Multi-purpose Discord bot with over 100,000 users

• Verified by Discord
• 50+ Custom Commands

Development:

• Dissonance was one of my first public programming projects, made in Java over three years ago.
• It is completely self-hosted and deployed on my home server through Docker.

Godot Engine contributions

• I have enjoyed using the engine on extensive projects for over three years. In 2021, I became an official contributor to the engine.
• gdaudioyt - Godot YouTube Audio Playback Module
• gdaudioext - Godot Audio Support for Opus and FLAC

Continuum Crowds Module

• Agents navigate to lower hues on the colored map.
• Based on Crowd Flows at UW Grail.

Development:

• The logic runs in a separate processing thread, allowing for high performance navigation calculations.
• The module works as a drop-in replacement for Godot's built-in navigation, allowing easy integration in projects.

Note: This is not public yet.

ArcadeBot - Play games within Discord

Development:

• ArcadeBot uses a modular design, allowing games to be added and removed with ease.

Programming Languages:

• C++
• GDScript
• C#
• Go
• Java
• TypeScript (+JavaScript)

“ I'm a professional software engineer and Nathan's knowledge of Godot has really impressed me. I highly recommend Nathan if you are a beginner or an expert, and I especially recommend him for his ability to quickly find solutions to difficult bugs. ”

- Zack Yang, via Fiverr

“ I highly recommend! Delivery was as I expected and with quality code. Would definitly work again with Nathan. ”

- gautierf, via Fiverr

“ This guy is a fantastic Godot teacher. Taught me everything I needed to know about Godot and he also managed to answer all my questions. I would definitely recommend his services if you need some guidance for your Godot journey. ”

- hopefulgamedev, via Fiverr

About:

• I have been a passionate programmer since around 2014.
• I am a Linux enthusiast and a free software advocate.
• I am the founder and owner of a game company called Revived Studio.

Contact:

• GitHub
• Matrix
• [email protected]