01 / readme.dat
//Operative Dossier
Eight years across engines. Started at a strategy-game studio in Munich, survived a stint at a Finnish AAA house, went solo in 2023 and shipped my first commercial title at 41,000 units and 94% positive on Steam. I care about the seam between rendering and gameplay — the places where the shader decides whether the player feels the scene.
Currently building my second title (codename Halcyon) in parallel with the "raymarched" newsletter. Reviewed for two indie publishers, mentoring two students through Global Game Jam, and giving a talk at GDC 2025 on solo-dev render pipelines.
call signNiko Voss
primaryGame Developer & Shader Artist
hqBerlin, DE
engineUnity HDRP · Unreal 5
ideRider · RenderDoc · Houdini
since2016
3
titles shipped
41k
Steam units
1.2M
WebGL sessions
4.2k
newsletter subs
02 / career.log
//Field Runs
2023 – Presentv1.3.7Berlin · Remote · solo studio
Lead Gameplay & Rendering
>> Chromatic Stasis (self-published)
Solo-shipped a 12-hour narrative shooter to Steam with a Very Positive rating (94% of 2,800 reviews). Wrote the custom deferred-renderer post-stack — volumetric fog, TAA, CRT aberration — and designed every gameplay system. Break-even at 18,000 units, currently at 41,000. Second title in pre-production.
impact:41k units
2020 – 2023NorthlightHelsinki, FI · full-time
Senior Technical Artist
>> Remedy Entertainment
Rendering strike-team on Alan Wake 2 — authored the flashlight-volumetrics stack, the vegetation sway system, and two of the UI post-effects. Shipped on PS5, Xbox Series, PC. Credited as senior technical artist. Three GDC internal workshops on Northlight rendering.
impact:shipped AAA
2018 – 2020Unreal 4.27Remote · Leipzig · contract
XR Engineer
>> Paravel Studios
Contract work on two Quest 2 titles and one WebXR installation for an art biennale. Responsible for the render pipeline and hand-tracking layer. Title "Astria" shipped to 240k installs and won IGF VR Innovation honourable mention 2019.
impact:240k installs
2017 – 2018Unity 2018Munich · full-time
Graduate · Gameplay Programmer
>> Mimimi Productions
Gameplay programmer on "Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice" expansion. Owned the save system and two of the companion AI loops. Shipped on schedule with zero day-one patches. Chosen for the internal graduate mentor scheme.
impact:shipped expansion