Sam Pattuzzi

As the Head of Operations at GameDev.tv, it was my roll to develop custom software, automation and our course taking website. Our website was built upon a Teachable stack with lots of custom integrations. One example was a custom widget I developed to pull in discussion from our Discourse forum right into the course experience. The involved integration with the Discourse API and was built very lightly based on webcomponents. I also developed a custom integration between our website and a 3rd party marketplace (Udemy). It allowed our students to redeem courses purchased on that marketplace on our site. This involved reverse engineering the Udemy API and designing a verification flow that allowed us to securely verify the user automatically and instantly. Behind the scenes, we used automation to speed up our processes. In order to improve our reviews, we aimed to respond to every single one. But with 100s every day, this was a difficult task. Again, by reverse engineering the Udemy API, I was able to setup an automatic process that would cycle through different stock responses, based on the rating.

This full scale RPG was create entirely by me an then taught as part of over 65 hours of taught video courses. Features of the game included: - A full combat and movement system (diablo style) - Inventory, pickups and equipment - Skills, abilities and experience system - Dialogue with custom Unity editor - A questing system and UI. - A saving system that could serialise the state of all the above systems. The project was a huge undertaking and took several years to complete including the production of all the teaching material.