Unity, C#, 3ds Max, Maya, Maxscript

Worked on the Nintendo Switch port of award-winning game, Outer Wilds.

Through Tricky Fast, we partnered with Unity themselves to provide support and Unity Engine expertise to Mobius Digital, the developer.

• Developed editor tools for artists and designers to optimize original assets for the Switch.
• Made several integrations that would pass data back and forth between Unity and Digital Content Creation tools, and corresponding scripts in those tools.
• Also developed monitoring and reporting tools to keep track of statistics with regard to these optimizations.
• Worked closely with Unity's engineers as well as the original developers.
• Contributed to the technical design of further optimizations for the existing systems to accommodate the Switch, such as the unique challenges the planet system posed in object culling.

Unity, C#. Team leadership, architecture, and technical documentation. Spine animation, GameSparks.

• Was lead engineer on a team of 11 internal and client engineers.
• Performed code review and served as individual contributor.
• Worked closely with the client team to develop a new architecture for the game.
• Wrote and reviewed technical design documents for all game systems
• Designed robust character customization and animation systems.

Custom WebGL game engine, high-performance Javascript, Node

I worked with GameClosure in Tokyo (now Rakuten Games.) We ported an existing mobile game to extremely performant Javascript to be run inside Facebook's games platform in the web browser.

Unity, C#, Universal Windows Platform, Windows Store

Took on a port of a very mature cross-platform project for a port onto the Windows Store. This required complex build process interventions and wrestling with differences between the .NET Core API and Unity's version of .NET.

Was assigned to this project solo.

Unity, C#, Adobe suite

• Game reached #1 on the iOS App Store in Japan
• VFX and animation, emphasis on particle systems and companion scripts
• Ideation meetings, mockups, research and development, and other creative collaboration
• My time at Pokelabo also included collaboration with external partners like Gree, Square Enix, and Sega
• Work was conducted in Japanese language only

Tools I created in this role:

• improved mobile performance (standard framerate 30fps+)
• reduced artist hours spent on repetitive tasks, in some cases by a factor of hundreds
• provided automated human error prevention and correction, reducing bugs
• extended the capabilities of Unity for artists. In particular, I created an asset management system for sharing assets, comprising a Unity editor script, web frontend, and cloud database.

Autodesk Maya, Autodesk MotionBuilder

• Motion capture retargeting and cleanup
• Facial animation and lip sync
• Procedural animation
• Subcontractor for Harmonix

Unity, C#

• Core systems developer
• Editor tools for game designers
• Worked with small and very agile team through very public prototyping process (live play streams weekly)
• Fluid simulation and VFX
• This game is the brainchild of many of the original team behind World of Warcraft and Kingdoms of Amalur.
• Game homepage

• Technical design, blockchain
• Advised a team of our game designers and engineers on the technical aspects of blockchain integration. Wrote and reviewed technical design documents.
• Commissioned by Xaya for their blockchain.
• Game homepage

Unity, C#

• Config-based, event-driven state machine for games
• Core engineer
• Wrote technical documentation
• Created demo content for customers
• Released for sale on the Unity Asset Store

Unity, C#, Photon

• iOS / Android social app
• Live multiplayer motion capture, live voice streaming
• Development of new features for mature product

Unity, C#, AppleTV SDK with Xcode

• GUI dev team lead
• Made AppleTV client for home automation controls using Unity
• Architecture, technical design, hardware and camera integrations

C#, OpenAI GPT API, TypeScript, AWS Lambda

• Personal project. Chara.Chat website here
• Mod for Stardew Valley
• Extends the game to allow player to have open-ended chats with NPCs