About

Greetings fellow human or web crawler program!

I’m Jaakko “Verkel” Lindvall, an all-around games-loving person from Espoo, Finland. Here are some facts about me:

By day I work as a Senior Game Programmer at Ubisoft Redlynx, making mobile games. Then at night I play some more games on PC, PS5 or Switch. :)

My favourite genres in loose order of preference are: (J)RPGs, (3rd person) action games, MOBAs, shoot ‘em ups, RTS, rhythm games, adventure, racing. But really anything goes. While I appreciate games for their story or art, experiencing or crafting great gameplay is what I love most.

I’ve got a Master’s in Computer Science from Aalto University in 2014. I majored in Media Technology, while my minor was Software Technology.

I’m a fan of demoscene and while not really a demo maker, we’ve managed to score first and second places in game development competition at Assembly demo party with silly animal games.

I’m a long-time DDR player, participate in the Finnish DDR community, have worked on a DDR-style game and wrote my thesis on an AI for this game.

I like to make programmer art from plastic beads (see below), while my spouse Jenny takes care of making real art.