Personal Awards and Major Competitions

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Game Jams

Game Maker Community Jams

New GMCJam 3 - 3rd + best presentation
GMCJam 20 - 2nd
GMCJam 19 - 1st + best presentation
GMCJam 15 - 1st + best presentation
GMCJam 14 - 3rd
GMCJam 13 - 3rd

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Other Jams

BYOG 2015 - Finalist

GameJolt Jams

Together Jam - Best Mashup
Indies Vs Gamers Jam - 2nd
GDC Jam 2016 - 3rd
Glitch Jam - 3rd (audio - 1st)
Chaos Jam - Honorable Mention

Ludum Dares

LD42 - 20th (Overall)
LD38 - 11th (Mood)
LD29 - 4th (Mood)

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Miscellaneous

Coverage

• Times of India (November 2013)
• Pewdiepie, Markiplier etc. (for Sushido)
  
• Retro Gamer Magazine (issue 117)
• Tech In Asia
• MCV UK
• AnimationXpress India

Others/Experiences

• Was a founder, and continue to help grow the Kolkata Game Developers Association (from my hometown).
• Unity Certified Developer.
• Was a council member of NASSCOM Gaming Forum (East), where I was responsible for hosting gamedev related meetups/events in eastern India - which eventually morphed into the Kolkata GameDev group.
• Was awarded the Tom Calvert Software Engineering Award for best portfolio during the MDM application process.
• Spoke at Casual Connect Asia 2013 on "Reversing a cliche".
• Spoke at NASSCOM GDC 2014 on "Constraint-based game design".
• Spoke at NASSCOM Bangalore on "The importance of game jams".
• Hosted "Intro to Game Development" classes at university during my undergrads.

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Reviews

Minecraft Legends

• "Minecraft Legends is gaming at its best - fun, welcoming, evolving, easy to play but endlessly difficult to master." - Daily Star (5/5)
• "Minecraft Legends is approachable, captivating, and just a really good time." - Game Rant (4.5/5)
• "Minecraft Legends is an engaging strategy game that does a great job streamlining a notoriously complex genre without sacrificing the ever-important element of choice and consequence." - IGN (7/10)
• "Minecraft Legends is a charming portmanteau of genres that manages to simplify the RTS formula while still demanding a fair amount of concentration and strategy." - Polygon
• "This is so clever, so well made, and such a joy to play through... There's something special here." - Skill Up! (Recommend)​ ​
• "Legends is a blast!" - ACG (Buy)

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MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries

• "MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries checks most of the boxes I would have asked for out of a modern revival of the series. " - IGN (8.1/10)
• "If you're here for a mech smashing simulator, this is the best new mech smashing simulator around." - PC Gamer (80/100)
• "Once you assemble your crew, jump into mechs you want to play as, and the story picks up, it starts to feel like old MechWarrior again." - Destructoid (8/10)
• "It’s bloody excellent." - Rock, Paper, Shotgun
• "I always returned, wanting and eager. Always under the prospect of "just one more mission." And then a mission after that, and a mission following that. Always "just one more." It's in this mantra that MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries excels." - Attack Of The Fanboy (8/10)
• "MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is a return to form." - GamingTrend (85/100)