Chris Thodesen
Software Engineer
About me
Hi, I'm Chris Thodesen. I'm a software engineer with over 10 years experience creating games and online applications. I started out in a London based company producing children's Video Games, including Mobile Apps for Disney, the BBC, and Comic/Sports relief. I've since ventured into web applications leading the development of a genomics application called GeneTek for the Bangladesh Ministry of Science & Technology as a freelance developer and set up my own games studio working on my own independent titles. I'm a creative person who has always been passionate about taking on new challenges and problem solving.
Mobile Games
Over the course of my career, I've had the chance to work on a number of mobile games, initially developing natively with Java and Obj-C on titles like Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom and Disney Junior Favourites. Then pioneering the transition into cross platform development with Unity and C# on In The Night Garden and subsequent titles.
Web Games
I had the opportunity to develop a series of HTML5 web games, over multiple years for both Comic and Sports Relief.
For Comic Relief I developed Dino Jump which took inspiration from a game called Doodle Jump, and also worked on Nose Need To Panic which was a series of mini games that needed to be completed as quickly as possible.
For Sports Relief we developed Athletes Vs Monsters which was an endless runner where you could play as one of three British Olympians.
Web Applications
I've have also developed software applications such as GeneTek, an online application that provided users with a node based editor to set up multi-stage workflows over genomics datasets. In it they can setup actions such as file conversions, data sanitisation and analysis, then submit it for processing.
Hardware Development
In addition to software development I've also produced a device that lets people who are unable to speak, communicate with amazon Alexa. Configuring the PCB, and designing the layout of the hardware, I created a device that could detect button inputs and submit routines to the Alexa API.
