Hi, I'm Lucas Ackman. I'm a video game engineer and designer. While I consider myself primarily as someone who works in the development stages in the engine, I never turn down the opportunity to design gameplay when given the chance. My expertise lies within the Unity Game Engine, although I am quick to pick up on new technologies as well.

For example, web development! I'm no expert in web development. I went to school to learn how to make video games after all. However, doing that meant learning a good chunk of more generalized programming and I've used those skills to get my foot in the door for web development and pick up the basics on developing dynamic webpages to build this portfolio webpage myself. I look forward to the opportunity to learn more regarding how I could develop webpages in an efficient and productive way.

But who I am is a whole different story. If you want an overly simplistic version, I grew up in a small town with big dreams to bring children the entertainment I grew up with, that being movies or games. Ultimately, I went down the games route because I can still tell stories and craft narritives through games while still using my skills in programming and mathematics. Ever since, I've been learning all that I can to create interactive experiences, primarily video games, although as previously mentioned I have picked up the basics of web development as well.

Since childhood I've always been really good with numbers, which naturally lead to being good with computers considering how often I spent my free time tinkering and trying to mod some of my favorite games. Over time, I learned the basics of what I was doing and wanted to learn more in depth which brought me to university where I realized just how much I didn't know yet.

I quickly realized there were so many languages I never heard of I didn't understand at all. I learned about the different types of programming languages and how some work in entirely different ways, for example there are Object-Oriented languages or Functional languages and many more. As I learned about these different programming technologies I delved deeper into my game development knowledge as well and even picked up a few tricks from functional programming to use in my game development.