Jani Mäkinen
Moby ID: 247114
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Jani Mäkinen is a Finnish game programmer from Helsinki that entered the industry in January 2011 after working in traditional software industry for a few years. From the start of 2011 he worked at Bugbear Entertainment. Then in late 2014 he joined Frozenbyte and worked on Trine 3: The Artifacts Of Power as well as Shadwen. Jani transitioned to mobile game development in 2017 with a location-based game called Moomin Move, but has now moved on towards the traditional software industry as of 2018, currently working at Tieto in Finland. He aims to release games as an indie developer in 2018.
He was born in Jämsä, Finland in 1985. He started University studies in Computer Science, but did not finish them.
Credited on 4 games
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| Shadwen (2016, Windows) | Senior Programmers |
| Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power (2015, Windows) | Senior Gameplay Programmer |
| Wreckfest (2014, Windows) | Additional Assistance |
| Ridge Racer: Unbounded (2012, Windows) | Programmers |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 3 games with Jean-Marc Valin
- 2 games with Ilkka Kuusela
- 2 games with Mika Zeng
- 2 games with Sami Martiskainen
- 2 games with Juha Ylimäki
- 2 games with Victoria Prentice
- 2 games with Juho Ruuttunen
- 2 games with Matias Lyyra
- 2 games with Santtu Penttinen
- 2 games with Tia Kiesiläinen
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Companies
- 4 games with Valve Corporation
- 2 games with Frozenbyte Oy
- 2 games with Bugbear Entertainment Oy
- 2 games with Glass Egg Digital Media Ltd.
- 2 games with Audiokinetic Inc.
- 1 game with Vox Records Studio
- 1 game with AriTunes Oy
- 1 game with Star Painters Digital Art Co., Ltd.
- 1 game with Ringtail Studios Ltd.
- 1 game with Recoil Games, Ltd.
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