GameFilter

Basics

• Introduction
  • My name is Ben Hwang. I am a senior college student at Yonsei University, Korea majoring computer science. During year 2001 ~ 2005, I have actively participated in the ACM-ICPC and advanced to the World Finals on year 2003 and 2005. On year 2006 to 2007, I worked at NHN Corporation, which is one of the biggest IT software company in Korea, as a game developer. The long time contest participating gave me a habit to think up with efficient algorithms and to consider the boundary limits. I am especially comfortable writing the algorithms with either c or c++.

• Contact Info
  • Email Address: ben_DOT_hwang_AT_gmail_DOT_com
  • irc: BenHwang
  • Awake time: UTC 00:00 ~ 15:00
  • No problem with communicating by phone
  • Preferred contact time by phone: UTC 09:00 ~ 15:00

• Summer of Code
  • This is the first time for me to participate in an open source project. Although It is a little bit late, I would like to join the open source community and learn a lot and contribute a lot.

• Experience
  • Worked as a game developer for more than 4 years.

• Communication skills
  • Fluent in both written and spoken English.
  • Lived in the US for 7 years.

Project

• Concept
  • Player can add filter options to easily find games the player is interested in. Some filtering criteria can be game type, map size and type, number of free slots/players, etc.
  • When I was working at NHN Corporation, I developed a similar room-searching filter for the online poker game products.
• Timeline (roughly)
  • 3 weeks: research and code review
  • 2 weeks: structure the algorithm
  • 2 weeks: implementation and documenting
  • Rest: debugging, testing, improving
• Technical details
  • Sort the rooms by the priority of the accuracy with the player filter options.
• My gains
  • First step into the open source community.

Practical considerations

• Languages
  • Fluent in C/C++
  • Beginner of Python
• IDE, Tools
  • Visual Studio .Net 2003 - usually developed windows games in the past
  • Subversion