About me
I am Miguel Santirso, a 28-year-old videogame programmer and designer.
I am working at King and I previously worked at 5 Ants where I led the programming of the highly successful game Tiny Thief and coordinated the final stages of the development of our second game Football Maniacs.
I am very passionate about videogame design, programming and user experience.
I have always enjoyed learning new things and working with talented people to create new experiences.
Project Timeline
today
October
13
Joined King
June
10
Football Maniacs released on the App Store and Google play
Football Maniacs is a casual football manager that features procedurally generated matches and highly customizable players.
April
28
Space Diggers — Ludum Dare (game jam)
Very ambitious entry with multiplayer space exploration. It finished in 10th position overall and 4th position in graphics.
April
3
Tiny Thief “Bewitched” update published
Five new levels published as a paid update for the game Tiny Thief.
2014
December
27
Tiny Thief selected by Apple for the “12 Days of Gifts” promotion
Game distributed to over 7 million iOS devices in just one day
December
21
December
18
One Arrow — Ludum Dare (game jam)
The game finished in 4th pos in graphics and 28th in overall.
August
26
10 Seconds To Live — Ludum Dare (game jam)
The game finished in 6th overall out of thousands of games.
July
11
Tiny Thief released on App Store and Google Play
Published by Rovio Stars, it has been recognised as one of the best mobile, premium games of 2013.
July
2
Racing Wings released on the App Store
A simple air racing game made in my free time. It was a great opportunity to learn about the App Store and native development.
2012
October
21
2011
November
29
Sponsored by Addicting Games, it was played by nearly 2 million players in a few months.
April
4
Joined 5 Ants
January
5
Finished my Master Thesis (Bienvisto)
An ad-hoc network visualization tool developed as part of a research project in the University of Oslo.
the past
Many small, amateur videogames and web apps... Too many to mention
1999
Can't
Remember
“Destripacoches” — Created my first videogame
I just copied and pasted some code I found in a game programming book and learned to change its rules and graphics.