Anton Debner

Ice skating quiz

I was asked to help study for an ice skating exam. After helping manually, I proposed and implemented an automated version in 30 minutes. The project is extremely simple, but...

A Trip to Virornus (Finnish Game Jam - 2020)

A Unity game project made with a team of coders, artists and a sound designer during a single weekend. GitHub Repository Playable demo Game Jam theme: Repair Project duration: ~3...

Soundstew (Games Now Game Jam 2019)

A Unity game project made with a team of three great coders during a single weekend. This is a local multiplayer game for 1-4 players, designed to be played with...

Turno Notturno 2019

Turno Notturno 2019 Third and by far the largest project of my Game Design studies. Lightweight horror game about a night shift in a modern museum from the guard’s perspective....

Pää Kolmantena Jalkana 2018

Pää Kolmantena Jalkana 2018 Pää Kolmantena Jalkana is a game that takes place on a faraway island in the ocean. You have one minute to collect your limbs, build your...

Nuka Cola Space Race 2018

Nuka Cola Space Race 2018 This was made as a warmup project during my master’s level Game Design studies. A modernized clone of a popular 2D-game from 1980s. GitHub Repository...

3 & 4 Seasons (Games Now Game Jam - 2017)

A Unity game project made with a team of two coders, one artist and a sound designer during a single week. GitHub Repository Playable demo Game Jam theme: Age Project...

JS tank game 2017

Two player JS tank game 2017 A 2d topdown tank game designed to be played with two players. GitHub Repository Playable demo Theme: Learn JavaScript Project duration: ~1-2 weeks of...

Old Website 2016

Old website 2016 Theme: Create a simple portfolio website Project duration: ~1 weekend of coding Team size: 1 My task: Everything (solo project) NOTE: This post is about my old...

Simple JS Pong game 2016

A simple JS Pong game 2016 Theme: Learn JavaScript from a tutorial (+ add extra stuff) Project duration: ~1 week of coding Team size: 1 My task: Everything (solo project)...

Quadcopter 2015

Quadcopter 2015 Arduino based quadcopter, controlled with an Xbox 360 controller GitHub Repository Theme: Create quadcopter from scratch, with as little help as possible Project duration: Several months Team size:...

Mobile 2D car game (First coding project 2014)

Mobile 2D car game 2014 Theme: Prove that I can make a game similar to a very popular Android game (+ learn to code) Project duration: several months or years...

About me

I got my PhD in Computer Science from Aalto University in 2025 with research focus on intelligent agents, deep reinforcement learning and game engines. Got my Master's degree in Computer Science from Aalto University in 2019, with Game Design as my minor. I enjoy solving logical problems, which makes programming perfect for me. I find joy in figuring out more elegant, faster, modular and easily understandable solutions to problems. I like creating things from scratch, without using plugins created by others. This is why I rarely give up when facing difficult problems.

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Skills

Unity and C# (70%)

Python (70%)

Unreal Engine 4 (30%)

c / c++ (30%)

Java / Scala (30%)

JavaScript (30%)

Pytorch / TF (30%)

Blender (10%)

Experience

Jan 2015 - July 2019

Teaching Assistant

Aalto University

Jan 2017 - July 2019

Research Assistant

Aalto University

July 2019 - October 2025

Doctoral Researcher

Aalto University

Education

2025

PhD

Aalto University, School of Science

- Major: Computer Science

- Minor:

2019

Master's degree

Aalto University, School of Science

- Major: Computer Science

- Minor: Game Design

2017

Bachelor's degree

Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering

- Major: Information Technology

- Minor: Computer Science