Hello! I'm Rasmus!

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Rasmus Rønn Nielsen

I am a 26 year old game creator. I've been self employed for more than 5 years. This makes me proud and grateful.

I love:

• Good games
• Learning
• Discipline
• Single-tasking
• Ambition
• Simplicity and minimalism
• Thoughtful design
• Iterative design
• The web
• Open source software
• Ruby
• Coffeescript

My games

I focus on making games I'd pay for myself that exploits technology I'm passionate about. I like web based games that are easy and fun to learn, challenging to master, and yield deep social experiences.

Virtual Manager

Virtual Manager is a multiplayer football game where you take charge of your own football club. You must trade players with other managers, set your tactics, train your players, and so forth.

The game has been profitable since we introduced "VM Premium" in 2006.

Go to Virtual Manager

Takeoff

In Takeoff you play the role as a CEO of your own airline. Your jobs include buying/selling planes that fit your job market, expand your airline by purchasing and upgrading offices around the world, buying/selling stakes on the stock market.

The game is fairly young and has a relatively small user base.

Go to Takeoff

Fargonia

Fargonia was a very ambitious attempt to implement a multiplayer real time strategy game using only web standards - especially considered development was started in early 2009. Unfortunately, Fargonia has until now not reached a playable state.

At the moment the project is on hold. I am not sure whether development will be resumed or not some point in the future.

History

I was born in 1986 in Aalborg, Denmark. I had a happy childhood in the small town of Aabybro.

As a young kid I drew mazes and created quiz books for my friends and family to solve. At the age of 13, I discovered computer programming and quickly learned how to combine this with my passion for game creation.

During my time at Aalborg Tekniske Gymnasium (technical college) I developed Virtual Manager – a football manager game. After graduation in 2005 I founded Playonic that was to drive and develop Virtual Manager professionally.

Being self employed already at the age of 19 and being able to spend all day with my hobby (software/game development) I felt very privileged – and still do.

In 2006 Freeway ApS acquired half of Playonic, which really sparked my fascination of online businesses.

My constant hunger for improving my life and professional skills has led me to an everyday filled with book reading and learning in general. Constant personal improvement and experimentation is a great way to get to excellence and thus filling my need to make a dent in the universe.

During weekends I often find myself behind a stack of keyboards alongside with the rest of my band, playing at different sorts of parties.