Emma Maassen
Founder at Kitsune Games
Greater St. Louis United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmma Maassen is a founder and indie game developer with 11 years of experience building full-spectrum game products—design, art, audio, programming, web presence, QA, and marketing—through her studio Kitsune Games. A dual-major graduate in Japanese and communication, she pairs international cultural insight (studies in Japan and an internship in Denmark) with hands-on technical craftsmanship, having created reusable game frameworks and a player music system for Portalarium’s Shroud of the Avatar. Based in Greater St. Louis but with Dutch roots and a history as a US green card holder living in Cyprus, she brings a truly global perspective to localization and market strategy. Emma combines entrepreneurial grit with community leadership, having been a Ludum Dare keynote speaker and shipping half a dozen titles while independently maintaining proprietary engines and bespoke websites. Not obvious from titles alone, she routinely bridges creative and technical roles—often producing assets and code herself—to accelerate time-to-market for small teams.
12 years of coding experience
Japanese Language, Japanese Language at 信州大学 / Shinshu UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Japanese Language and Communication, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Japanese Language and Communication at Hogeschool Zuyd (Maastricht, Heerlen, Sittard)
Dutch, English, Japanese
Github Skills (88)
reader10
abc10
octave10
ini-file10
single-file10
csharp10
ini10
abc-notation10
memory-allocation9
dotnet9
audio9
shorthand9
steamos9
unmanaged-memory9
openexr9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Enichan/Ini
Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
Ini file reader/writer for C# / .NET written in pure .NET in a single source file
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
csharpdotnetini-filewriterreader
Enichan/textplayer
Sep 2014 - Aug 2019
A library to play MML and ABC songs, written in C#
Contributions:4 releases, 37 commits, 3 PRs in 4 years 11 months
csharpmmloctavesongsc-sharp
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