Hello everyone,
My name is Al Ridley and I have over 2 decades worth of experience as a freelance programmer and more than 10 years of experience with Unity and game development. I began my freelance career programming data-driven web applications using Coldfusion & PHP more than 20 years ago and following over a decade of success, I decided to cash in all my chips and begin a life-long dream of developing video games for a living.
I am currently looking for my next freelance project, whether it’s quickly building out a prototype to test out ideas or bringing the contents of your game design document to life. I have experience in a lot of areas, including local coop, multiplayer, MMO games. While programming has always been my main focus, I also have experience working with low poly meshes in Blender and creating rigs for bipedal characters, which has come in handy on many occasions when it comes time for creating prototype assets quickly and efficiently.
Thank you for taking the time to consider me for your project.
Contact
Portfolio: http://eatsleepindie.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/eatsleepindie
Discord: eatsleepindie
Demo Reel
RIZN (Zombie Shooter)
Runiq Online (Fantasy MMORPG)
Arq Online (SciFi MMORPG)
Skills
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Unity v2019 - v6
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Smartfox Server
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Mirror
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Blender 3D
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Steam SDK
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Adobe Photoshop
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Adobe Dreamweaver
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MySQL Server
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C#
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Java
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HTML5
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CFML
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PHP
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Here is a new arcade racing game I was tinkering with recently; I may be adding a demo to my portfolio soon.
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Was playing the Titanfall campaign the other day and thought it might be fun to fold spacetime in Unity.
Horrible experience with this developer. I hired him a over a week ago, barely any communication unless is to ask for money. Did not follow instructions given, did the work on time that wasn’t agreed on just so that the task I provided him wasn’t what I asked for. Had to dispute the payment with my credit card company.
ESI Studios
eatsleepindiedev@gmail.com
Full Proof:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gameDevClassifieds/comments/1h8yawm/warning_before_hiring_developer_eatsleepindiedev/
A little bit of context since you conveniently failed to provide it:
I’ve been freelancing as a Unity developer for about 13 years now. You are the first client I have had any issue with in many years. In fact, this week I will be working with my first ever client again, someone I have worked with repeatedly over the course of my career and who would absolutely argue every accusation you’ve been spamming on the internet since this nonsense began if I were petty enough to ask them to vouch for me.
You provided me a game design document, something I require for all projects because it gives me a target to reach. It’s an agreed-upon destination. Just a few days into the work you decided to toss that game design document without any direct communication that the doc had been scrapped. The only indication of that was the line in our discussion in which you said, “the only thing that is approved for change,” which could easily have been taken as “the only thing that is approved for change from the document I provided.” I am not sure what the point of sending me a GDD was if it was going to be scrapped other than it was a way for you to get around the fact that I require GDDs before I ever send out an invoice.
You’ve spent more time posting accusations on Reddit and here in the forums than you spent discussing things with me over Discord. I agreed to the first payment being split up into two because you didn’t have the funding to hire me for the entire week that you wanted to hire me for. I agreed to a lower payrate (something I never do) for the sake of the long-term project and us working together on it. I agreed to a broken schedule the first week due to your lack of funding and navigated that odd schedule as best I could. You never reached out to ask about progress, you never clearly stated that the GDD should be scrapped two days into development, and you stated yourself multiple times that you have no idea how to program in Unity, yet the moment the work was delivered you became incredibly hostile and there was no reasoning with you.
Most of your accusations have been removed from Reddit. One that still stands and you conveniently did not link in your reply ( Warning before hiring developer eatsleepindiedev do not get scam! : r/Unity3D) shows that the community clearly sides with me; that you made it obvious that you’d used a 17h old account on Reddit to side with yourself which is incredibly shady and in my (and others) opinions completely discredits you. I have been using PayPal for almost two decades now and I have every faith that they will side with me regarding the dispute you put through given that 1) the source I had created was delivered, 2) you only put the dispute through AFTER that source had been delivered, and 3) I haven’t had a single dispute in years yet I have delivered source to satisfied clients time and time again. You are the outlier and as it stands right now are the thief; you stole my work and are now spamming the internet with accusations, leaning far too hard into your attempts to justify your actions. This could have all been easily resolved with an adult discussion via Discord but you wanted to be rude and were not open to anything; you’d made up your mind to steal my work and there was no reasoning with you.
Anyone that wants to is welcome to run a search; there is not a single instance of an angry client making accusations against me whatsoever beyond these that you’ve posted in the last few days. They don’t exist because I have a 100% satisfaction rate that I’m not only proud of but that I have worked very hard to keep. I could have kept that at 100% had you put anywhere near the effort into our discussion and resolving this seemingly innocuous misunderstanding like adults that you’ve put into spamming the internet with these baseless accusations. Had you given me that time rather than Reddit/forums/etc, I’m confident we could have come to terms and continued with your project.
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I am available for new projects again, contact info is at the top of this thread.
Hi there your projects look amazing
I’m also developer and would be glad to team up with someone experienced.
I’ve sent you discord invite
I am available for new projects, contact info at the top of this thread
