Adam Hensel

• Hired, managed, and led a development team of 20 artists, engineers, and designers building a multiplayer creature collecting RPG game in Unity.
• Crafted game systems leveraging AAA best practices, node-based workflows, and created core development pipelines to empower small teams to rapidly prototype and iterate.
• Built the Unity art pipeline including project architecture, naming conventions, inheritance best practices, shaders/material creation, and export tooling.

• Led technical development for League of Legends, supporting the entire organization with shaders and material development in Riot's proprietary engine.
• Led technical art development for Summoner's Rift Preseason 2020: Rise of the Elements and Preseason 2021: Mythic Items.
• Created and shipped player value across every discipline including modeling, texturing, rigging, animating, VFX, Shaders/Materials, Lighting, and Tooling empowering teams to hit ambitious milestones.

Generated thousands in revenue from "Instant Tanks" an automated tanks suspension project with modular weapon attachments sold in the Unreal Marketplace.

• Led enterprise virtual reality Unity development at Talespin, creating new training modules and sports simulation experiences for clients like Farmers Insurance, NFL, and Visa.

• CEO and Founder of Hydrant Games, an indie game development studio that built and released a multiplayer medieval shooter game called Overpower on Steam.

• Created 3D Characters for a startup gaming studio founded by previous Blizzard developers called Fireforge.