Lewis Dawson

Passionate Game Developer with 5 years of Unity/C# experience building gameplay systems, UI, AI, physics, and multiplayer features for mobile and PC titles. Shipped work on games with 15M+ downloads and delivered reusable tools, networked systems, and client projects.

I started my game development journey in university with Unity, making games as a generalist, with a focus on programming. I have broad experience working with UI, AI, and Physics with a particular passion for gameplay mechanics and the 3C’s. I enjoy exploring emerging technologies and expanding my skillset through personal projects, recently working with JSON and Unity’s Gaming Services multiplayer stack.

Regular participant in Game Jam events, including Climax Game Jam 2024, GGJ 18’ – 22’, and Ludum Dare 44.

Unity Developer - Immersive Reality (June 2021 – June 2025)

• Built a reusable Unity template that standardized first-person controls, AI, haptics, hotspots, media playback, and UI systems

• Delivered multiple client Unity projects, including touch-based mini-games, Bezier/free-roam movement systems, a touch-driven particle interaction system and more

• Managed source control and delivery workflows with Git, Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence across projects.

• Delivered Remote deployment and issue resolution through Pulseway.

• Mentored colleagues to improve team implementation quality and reduce blockers during development.

• Communicated regularly with team remotely and in stand-up meetings concerning project design, scope, implementation, tasks burndown, finalisation, testing and resolving issues, and concerns.

Game Developer - Aceviral

• Contributed to two mobile titles reaching a combined 15M+ downloads on Google Play.

• Introduced coding standards and code review improvements that increased consistency across the team’s Unity projects.

• Participated and led regular code reviews to discuss project progress, issues, or concerns.

• Managed projects using GitHub Desktop, Trello and Notion

Car Run Racing mobile game

• Refactored core UI and gameplay systems using Unity UI and custom code, improving performance, maintainability and future-proofing

• Integrated user control for personal data usage for game services.

Angry Gran Smash mobile game

• Lock state and notification system integration for character and weapon store screens, alerting the player to acquired unlocks, and steps to unlock specific unlockables.

• Implementation of offline currency accumulation with a pension system.

• Enhanced the game’s tutorial systems with UI masking to highlight specific focus points for the player.

BSc Hons. Games Software Development University of Sunderland

• Achieved 1st Class Bachelor’s with Honours.

IT (QCF) BTEC Level 3 Ext. Diploma Sunderland College

• Achieved grade D*D*D*.