Video Game Development at the University of Michigan

Artun Kircali

 
 
Profile
Status Junior - Neuroscience
Class 2010
Location Ann Arbor
Occupation Student
Contact Information
AIM SuperTun
MSN artunkircali@hotmail.com
Primary email Artun's primary email
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Biography

Artun Kircali is currently a 20-year-old junior at the University of Michigan. Part of what shaped Artun's nature is a diverse and active lifestyle. While loving and playing video games, making it a major past time, he balanced that love with a passion for sports, exercising physically and virtually. It is this enthusiasm for games that worked with his interest in art and drawing that led him to develop his artistic skills on the computer and off, as well as develop a deeper appreciation for the parts that come together to form a genuinely great game. Working with a friend during secondary school he learned about the world of programming and game design, and though this seed that was planted has yet to bloom into a programming dynamo, the game designer within is alive and well! This lively and platonic love for games is what has led Artun to become a member of Wolverine Soft and work with the great group it is to make the games he has grown to love! He will currently be taking on the role of treasurer in order to ensure that Wolverine Soft receives the funding it deserves to continue the great work it does on campus.

Skills

Photoshop, C++, Q-Basic, Guitar Hero, Goldeneye

Side Projects

"DoubleShot!" (Full version) "Project Interceptor" (In Progress)

Officer Positions

Artun has held the following officer positions:

Events Coordinator2009
Treasurer2008

Projects

Artun has been involved with the following projects:

  • Prior Restraint

    Prior Restraint

    Escape a labyrinth, outwit security cameras, and come to terms with your past.

  • Triune

    Triune

    Triune is an abstract shooter in which the player pilots a ship situated on top of the Triune allowing him to switch through three different polarities. Using these different polarities the player can shoot three different types of bullets and make excellent use of the Octolith, which can be strategically used to switch the player's gameplay between a defensive and aggressive style.

  • Tek Jansen Super Rave

    Tek Jansen Super Rave

    Rave out with Steven Colbert's alter-ego!!!

  • DoubleShot! (Prototype)

    DoubleShot! (Prototype)

    Piloting the DoubleShot through space and various alien environments, you take on the role of a courageous space-fighter as you blast through the evil Orgo empire in an epic struggle for freedom. Fight to reach their homebase and defeat the leader of the Orgo to free yourself and the rest of the universe!

    Design Team:
    Chris Boguslawski (lead programmer, lead game designer, assistant level designer)
    Artun Kircali (lead artist, lead level designer, assistant game…

  • Project Interceptor

    Project Interceptor

    Tank game. Defend America from the Soviet Invasion.

  • Jailbreak

    Jailbreak

    Jailbreak is a puzzle action game in which the player, an inmate of the infamous hi-tech Bowday maximum security prison, must breakout in order to save his family which is being threatened by his corrupt employers. These are the same employers who had him framed and imprisoned after he discovered company secrets so dark, they could tarnish the company's image and stop their evil operations for eternity. And to add to his difficulties he's constantly…