Daniel Bienvenu

Moby ID: 382413

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Daniel Bienvenu was born in Canada in 1975. He started programming in BASIC and Assembler 6502/6510 at a young age on Commodore VIC-20 and later on Commodore 64 computers. He coded some development tools and games for DOS in QuickBASIC, and games for the ColecoVision game system. DACMAN was his first ColecoVision homebrew game released in cartridges, during the Classic Gaming Expo CGE2K, in Las Vegas, summer 2000. He made a ColecoVision game in 2001 named Miss Space Fury to celebrate the 10th anniversary of DigitalPress, and another ColecoVision game named GhostBlaster in 2009 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of CCJVQ. He completed a Master degree in Computer Science in 2003. He worked a few months as a flash programmer in 2007-2008, one known title: Go Diego Go! Snowboard Rescue ( a developer trick he left in the game: hold CTRL key and click the Play button to unlock all the difficulty levels ). He participated in retro gaming events including Arcadia in Montreal, CCJVQ meetings mostly in Montreal area, and ADAMCon annual conventions in which he gave talks about ColecoVision game programming and released some of his creations.

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Guitar Hero Live (2015, Xbox One) Quality Assurance
Skylanders: SuperChargers (2015, Wii U) QA Testers
DacMan (2000, ColecoVision) 2000, by

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