Kian Bashiri (born in 1987) is a

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video game developer and programmer, best known for the IGF Innovation Award-nominated

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'' You Have To Burn The Rope'' released in 2008. He started making

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s in 1999 and continued to play around with the software for many years before deciding he wanted to be a professional games developer. Bashiri attended Stockholm University and the School of Future Entertainment where he studied computer game development. Beyond ''You Have To Burn The Rope'', he developed and released other games independently, such as ''Metro: Rules of Conduct'' (2008) and ''Swarm'' (2008), the latter which won him a Swedish Game Award for Best Mobile Game. After graduating, however, he joined the small Stockholm studio

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as Lead Game Programmer for the game '' Pid''. As of 2021, he was working as the Lead Animation Programmer at Ubisoft Stockholm.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bashiri, Kian Living people 1987 births Video game developers Stockholm University alumni