Who am I?

a GPP who will get you a result wherever you put me

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Main Quests

Archetype Entertainment (UE5) - Senior Gameplay Engineer

Exodus <in development>

• Feature Lead for World gameplay systems, Crowd AI, and IC for player systems

• Ambient AI & Crowds, Player Camera Assist technology, Diegetic Media, In game narrative systems like Companion-Player-Communication and lightweight cinematics

• Time Dilation technology

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Ubisoft: Red Storm (Snowdrop C++ engine) - Senior Gameplay Programmer

XDefiant <release May 2024 PC/Xbox/PS>

• AI (Tactical behavior through spatial reasoning and objective influence)

• Performance

The Division: Heartland <beta June 2023 PC/Xbox/PS>

• Melee Combat

• AI Systems (stealth, combat, navigation)

• World Systems (universal weight, progression, crafting, peer-to-peer mailbox)

• Intention based Input

• Animation and UI Support

• Matchmaking

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Iron Galaxy Studios (UE4) - Systems Programmer

Rumbleverse <release Aug 2022 PC/Xbox/PS>

• Dynamic Loot Spawning

• Character Customization

• AI bot navigation Support

• Battle Pass and Progression Systems

• Data Persistence and Stat Tracking

• Achievements

• Ecommerce

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Side Quests

Freelance Programmer (GameMaker Studio 2)

The Tarnishing of Juxtia <release July 2022 PC>

• Led development for 2D projectile physics which was utilized in various bombs, arrows, and other throwables

Design / Gameplay (C++ SFML)

Gauss <release May 2019 PC>

• Created this game because of my love for side scrolling bullet hells featuring a space shooter with upgrades, power-ups along with ship skins and 3 game modes.

• 3 different modes each offering the player a unique experience; Campaign, Infinite Invasion, and Cosmos.

• Built a grid based level editor which allowed me to build and save levels for the campaign which allowed me to build the campaign in encapsulated levels.

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Design / Gameplay (GameMaker Studio)

Algebro

• Led development for how the player moves, interacts with the world, and combat including transferring from 3D to 2D (visually) each with their own unique mechanics.

• Designed 3 unique enemy AI taking inspiration from Pac-Man where each enemy has their own movement behavior and motivations on reaching the player

Design / Gameplay (Unity)

Thunderpaws

• Couch co-op passion project in Unity inspired by what my cat would be if he were an 80's action hero

• Levels created using a Sprite level editor tool “Tiled” to create the levels and import them into unity.

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Skill Points

• C++ / C# / Scripting (Bash, Cmake, Lua, Python…etc)

• UE4 & UE5 / SFML / GLFW / Proprietary C++ / Unity / GameMaker

• AI systems - Proprietary & UE (Blackboards, Behavior Trees, EQS, StateTrees...)

• Visual Scripting (Blueprints, Material and Anim Graphs…etc)

• Linear Algebra, Influence Mapping, Fuzzy Logic

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Achievements

• I met Bjarne Stroustrup at CppCon 2019 and he signed my A Tour of C++

• Completed 2 Triathlons

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Contact

If you want to connect professionally then head over to Linked In!

or via email: [email protected]

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Oh also I cosplay for fun at cons or ren faires

left to right top down: classic Silco (Arcane), Mario warfare, casual Thanatos (Hades), Kakashi (Naruto), Young Link, beach ep Silco (Arcane)