About Me

My name is Alex Hartley, and I am an American expat living in Malmö, Sweden. I have extensive experience in video game graphics and design, and 2D and 3D art.

Work Experience

2017-Present

Kedlin Company, Kedlin Screening International

For the past few years I have began working full time as an independent contractor for this tiny startup and we have made games and enterprise products.

• Airport Scanner 2 (Game Design, Art, Audio)
• Various Projects

2015-2017

Lllusion Labs

For two and a half years I worked with an incredibly talented group of people at this small, but very well regarded game development studio where I helped to create several games for Apple platforms.

• Nono Islands (character modeling and animation, UI design.)
• Touch Grind 2 (bonus level design and bonus level artwork.)
• Mr. Crab 2 (level Artwork, level design, character design, character Animation)
• Bacon Escape (level artwork)

2012-2015

Kedlin Company

During this period I was working part time at a small design firm named Color Monkey while I also designed and co-created two iPhone games with a tiny startup called Kedlin Company. One of those games, Airport Scanner, went on to become the #1 free app in the US app store for a while.

• Airport Scanner (game design, art, audio)
• Meter Maid City (game design, art, audio)

Color Monkey

• Animation, design, and game development

2011

Smudgy Games

• Various Projects

Freelance

• Consulting

2009-2010

Smudgy Games

I spent a couple of years as one half of a small games company and we developed a few games of our own and did some consulting.

2000-2008

Atod AB, Warthog Sweden, Gizmondo Studios Helsingborg, Eidos Studios Helsingborg.

I got my start at a small game studio in Helsingborg, Sweden called Atod AB. This studio worked primarily on racing games, and would change name and ownership several times. I spend the first 8 years of my career there.

• Art, Level Design, UI design
• Art Direction
• Game Design

Software and Skills

I am an expert in the following content creation software packages:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe After Effects
• Lightwave 3D
• Unity 3D

I am reasonably proficient in the following content creation software packages:

• Autodesk Maya
• Blender
• Adobe XD
• Apple Keynote

I am also comfortable with the following types of "supplementary" tasks:

• Spreadsheets (Google Sheets, Excel etc.)
• Basic scripting
• Documentation

Education

• The Cooper Union for The Advancement of Science and Art. New York, New York B.F.A. 1999.