“Ryan's ability to balance compassionate leadership with productivity works in harmony with his skills and understanding of game development and visual design. His technological know-how and keen artistic sensibilities is a very rare combination that has helped not only myself, but also the many students I have watched him mentor over the years. Each project I have worked with him on has been guided with respect, professionalism and a drive that can best be described as contagious. I would gladly work with Ryan again and I hope to have the opportunity to do so in the future.”
About
Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
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Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2: CORE 2022)
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
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Bias in Peer Review
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
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First Aid/CPR/AED
Rescue Plus
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Volunteer Experience
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Committee Chair
Interactive Ontario
- Present 2 years 4 months
Arts and Culture
Indie Superboost is a game industry-led effort that brings talent together for candid, in-depth, and authentic conversations. Share stories, ask questions and come through the realities of succeeding as a sustainable indie studio. As Committee Chair, I help to choose topics relevant to the local game community and select Expert guests to speak about them. I often serve as moderator for these talks to keep the conversation flowing.
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Committee Chair
Durham College
- 5 years 6 months
Education
As Chair of the Game Art and Animation Program Advisory Committee (PAC) I helped to moderate meetings and facilitate advice and counsel for program managers and faculty of both the Game Art and Animation program at Durham College in the School of Media Art and Design. These meetings focused on understanding and responding to industry trends, curriculum review, program evaluation, instructor guidance, student recruitment and enrichment.
Publications
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Creating a Dynamic Tile System (Fossil Hunters)
Gamasutra
What is a dynamic tile system, what solutions exist, and why did we create our own custom solution for Fossil Hunters? I explain the thinking behind our choices and detail our unique approach.
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Creating a Dynamic Tile System
Gamasutra
An overview of the new tiling system I developed for use in Fossil Hunters.
Projects
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Krog: Remake (working title)
A complete remake of the 2013 game, "Krog", featuring improved gameplay and visuals. Stay up to date with the game's development on the dev log: https://ryanmiller.itch.io/krog/devlog
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Astronomics
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Top-down action and space exploration meet asteroid mining automation! Command a faithful crew of bots and get to work in the asteroid belt. Impress your employer, upgrade your equipment, fight off pirates and save up for that ticket to Earth so you can finally come home... for the very first time.
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Fire Tonight
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A narrative puzzle game about two people trying to find their way back together in a city on fire. I'm leading game development including programming and 3d art on this one. It's also the first Nintendo Switch port I'll be doing personally. Due to launch in Q1 2021.
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Speax: French
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Speax is a new take on language learning. This iOS app immerses the player, and allows them to converse naturally with french speakers using a custom-built speech recognition. Reptoid Games produces the application and it's animated graphics on behalf of Speax Inc.
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Fossil Hunters
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Fossil Hunters is a casual action-adventure game about digging for fossils and building your own dinosaurs. It is the first major original game release from Reptoid Games. It is not available on Windows, macOS, and all game consoles.
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ObjectMaster (Unity Plugin)
ObjectMaster is an unobtrusive Unity3D Plugin that helps developers to work more powerfully and efficiently. It turns common awkward or tedious object-centric workflows into fast one-click tools. Visit the link for more info.
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CG Toolkit (Unity Plugin)
A toolkit for Unity3D that gives users an automated Character (Player and Enemy) creation process, an Interaction Creator with many triggers and actions, and editor utilities to speed up everyday tasks.
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Otto
Otto is a platforming video game in which you arrange platforms for an adaptive platforming character. This game was built and submitted to the 2016 Global Game Jam.
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SpillTender
SpillTender is a game in which you serve drinks to bar patrons in a unconventional way. This prototype is available for free on itch.io
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Fangbone: The Billbarians
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The official game for the Fangbone animated series, on iOS and Android.
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'Donculous Dash
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‘Donculous Dash is an endless runner style game featuring all your favourite racers from Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race TV show! Pick your favourite team, dash through different levels, and test your skills in hilarious mini-game challenges.
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Flipped Classroom Video Tutorials
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Ongoing video series that act as a companion to in-class learning for College students, as well as standalone tutorials. Videos cover a variety of Game Development topics such as 3d Modelling, Texturing and Lighting, Unity3d and C#.
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Winston Steinburger & the Distractor Beam
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Contributed graphics and development services for the Winston Steinburger & The Distractor Beam mobile app.
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Tentacular Madness
Tentacular Madness is a game built at Toronto Game Jam in 3 days by a team of 6 people. It is a Lovecraft-themed side scrolling endless jetpack for survival. Visit the link to download and play!
http://ryanmillercg.itch.io/tentacular-madness
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Blasters of the Universe
Rigging and Technical Animation for Blasters of the Universe VR game.
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Insidious VR
Modelling and Texturing for Secret Location Inc. Helped create an Oculus Rift & Android VR experience for the Insidious film by Focus Features.
Official Site
http://www.insidiousvr.com/promo/insidious_vr
News
http://popcrush.com/insidious-into-the-further-4d-experience-tickets/
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.focus.insidiousCardboard
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Susanna Moodie Mobile App
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An animated and interactive mobile app retelling Susanna Moodie's "Roughing it in the bush"
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Blink
Blink provides a modern day recasting of the past. It is a digital intervention that aims to refresh the traditional museum viewing experience. Facilitated by mobile technology and shape recognition, established works of art are layered with an alternate re-imagining of the work.
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Munstah Chase!
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A Toronto Game Jam (TOJam) game, built in 3 days in a pressure cooker of inspiration. It's a racing game where you can eat things smaller than you are, and get eaten by things bigger than you.
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Snowball Kids
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A simple mobile game in which you engage in snowball combat with other kids. Available for iOS, Android, Amazon Mobile, and Windows Phone 8.
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3D Virtual Crafting - Custom Avatars
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Using the Avayalive Engage platform, 3DVC creates custom virtual environments, avatars, animations to objects and characters, games and scenarios designed for each customer's needs.
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The Great Martian War
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The Great Martian War is a fast-paced cinematic endless runner for mobile platforms.
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Leatherback Sea Turtles
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Canadian Wildlife Federation's Great Canadian Turtle Race campaign uses high quality 3d models and Augmented Reality to increase awareness for Leatherback Sea Turtles.
Honors & Awards
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Nominee, Researcher of Excellence Award
Durham College ORSIE
This award recognizes an outstanding researcher who has made a substantial contribution to DC's culture of research.
Nominees have demonstrated excellence in the following criteria:
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Indie Series Grand Prize
Ubisoft Toronto / National Bank
The Ubisoft Indie Series presented by National Bank is an annual competition for independent game development studios in Canada, offering funding, mentorship, and creative, marketing and financial tools to help local studios and their games reach new heights.
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Highest Ranking Graduate
Durham College
Highest Ranking Graduate in Computer Animation Arts
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Durham College Award
Durham College
For achievement in Animation - Computer Arts
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Durham College Award
Durham College
For achievement in Animation - Computer Arts
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
Organizations
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Interactive Ontario
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DMG
Member
-DMG is a not-for-profit videogame arts organization that creates space for marginalized creators to make, play and critique videogames within a cultural context. https://dmg.to/
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Interactive Ontario
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Hand Eye Society
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IGDA - Toronto Chapter
Professional Member
-Professional member of the Toronto chapter of IGDA (International Game Developer's Association).
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MTCU Industry Focus Group
Consultant stakeholder for Ontario Animation Colleges
-Worked with the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities and local Animation leaders to establish and revise standards for post-secondary Animation diploma and advanced diploma programs in Ontario.
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Skills Canada Competition 2012 (Durham Region)
Judge
-Member of the Judges panel for 2012 Skills Canada Competition - Durham Region Animation
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