Curriculum Vitae

AJ Tuttle
atuttle@uccs.edu
ajtuttle99@gmail.com
(719) 629-7041

EDUCATION

University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO.

Bachelors of Innovation in Game Design and Development, 2022

PERSONAL STATEMENT

When I was 5 years old, my dad had just uploaded his 18th flash game to the world wide web.

He included in his game a level builder. I was fascinated with this tool and spent a lot of my time

playing with it and making my own levels.

On the morning of April 24, 2011, my dad handed me the book Getting Started with Game

Maker, and told me to go check my computer. On the bottom left of the desktop, there was a

new program: Game Maker 8.1. I spent all of my freetime during the day making my own mini-

games with this tool and everynight I would read through the book.

Flash forward 10 years, I am now a student of game design and development. From studying

basic design and accessibility principles to building a virtual world to releasing a commercial

product, I have become confident in my ability to design and develop video games.

Satoru Iwata, the late fourth president and chief executive officer of Nintendo, once said “If you

do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we

always have to challenge the status quo by making something new, rather than competing in an
existing market”. As I begin my career, I wish to incorporate Mr. Iwata’s philosophy into my own

projects in order to create new and interesting video games that will stand out in an

oversaturated marketplace and deliver an experience to gamers around the world that will leave

them awestruck, satisfied, and entertained.

ACADEMIC COURSEWORK

Innovation Core

ENTP 1000 Intro to Entrepreneurship

INOV 1010 The innovation Process

BLAW 2010 Business and Intellectual Property

INOV 2010 Innovation Team: Analyze and Report

- Client: WordStackAttack

- Client Contact: Scott Batley

- Scope of Work: Assist Mr. Batley in converting his digital game into a physical

board game and playtest the board game to ensure that it is a fun experience

- Outcome: Fully modeled the game pieces and board, and created a document

outlining how to prototype a board game.

INOV 3010 Innovation Team: Research and Execute

- Client: Extravagant Wellness

- Client Contact: David Amess- damess@techwise.com | (719) 210-8196

- Scope of Work: Research and develop a prototype phone application that

patients and clients can use to monitor their testing results, nutrition

requirements, recipes, and shopping lists to incorporate a longevity of wellness

 - Outcome: Partially developed phone app featuring core features requested by

the client. A technical manual which explains what each class and function does

in the code.

INOV 4010 Innovation Team: Design and Lead

- Client: Imagine If

- Client Contact: Jay & Cleo Zarr- storytellerstravels@gmail.com | (719) 251-8774

- Scope of Work: Design and develop a virtual coffee-shop like safe space for

students to workshop, share poems, and perform in poetry slams, market the

client’s poetry events, and fully develop a business professional website

- Outcome: Delivered a complete business professional website, multiple flyers of

differing designs containing information on the poetry event, and a custom-

designed Topia world.

INOV 2100 Technical Writing Proposals, and Presentations

ENTP 4500 Entrepreneurship and Strategy

Game Design and Development Courses

GDD 1100 Introduction to Game Development

GDD 1200 Introductory Programming for Game Developers

GDD 2100 Game Design for Diverse Populations

GDD 2150 Fundamental Game Design Concepts

GDD 3000 3D Modeling and Animation

GDD 2200 Object-Oriented Analysis, Design, and Implementation

CS 3350 Team-Based Game Production

GDD 3200 Team-Based Game Test and Deploy

CS 2250 Advanced Data Structures in C++

GDD 3600 Developing Serious Games

GDD 3000 2D Animation

 GDD 3100 User Interface Design

Other Courses

GPS 1010 Engineering Odyssey

Math 1350 Calculus I

VA 1020 Beginning Studio 3D

BIOL 1000 Biol in the Modern World

PES 1110 General Physics I- Calc Base

PES 1160 Adv Physics Lab I - Calc Base

CS 2300 Computational Linear Algebra

MUS 2150 Electronic & Computer Music I

ECON 2020 Introduction to Macroeconomics

MGMT 3900 Person/ Team Creativity

PES 1000 Physics in Everyday Life

MGMT 3300 Intro to Mgmt & Organization

ACCT 2010 Intro to Financial Accounting

KEY AREAS OF COMPETENCY

Programming Languages

C#

GML

Game Engines

Unity

Game Maker Studio 2

Creative Programs

Piskel app
 Krita

Photoshop

Autodesk Maya

Blender

FL Studio 12

Audacity

Vegas Pro 14

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Food Drive Volunteer, 2016, Alameda International High School, Lakewood, CO

Trick or Treat Street Volunteer, 2016, Alameda International High School, Lakewood, CO

Food Drive Volunteer, 2017, Alameda International High School, Lakewood, CO

Trick or Treat Street Volunteer, 2017, Alameda International High School, Lakewood, CO

Volunteer Homecoming Concession Stand Operator, 2017, Alameda International High

School, Lakewood, CO

7th Grade Orientation Volunteer, 2017, Alameda International High School, Lakewood, CO

HONOURS/ REWARDS

Chancellor’s Reward, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Dean’s List, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021