A game to make your custom minis shine.

• Rapid prototyping of several game ideas
• Design and implementation of
  • Browser based core engine
  • Binary asset pipeline, using ViteJS as a foundation
  • Core Gameplay Systems and Tooling
  • No-Code script system

• Leading a team of half a doyen engineers, including Scrum Master duties
• Interdepartmental communication
• Implementation of several Gameplay Systems

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• Port from Flash to Unity WebGL
• Leading a small team of engineers
• Repository and Build System maintenance

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I supported IO Interactive by porting core engine systems of the Glacier 2 engine over to Google Stadia.

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• Joined late in production
• Release stabilization
• Integration of localization
• Platform support for GoG and Microsoft Store

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• Joined early in production to work on AI, mainly agent awareness and behavior
• After the release worked on rebuilding the studio AI solution, mainly focusing on navigation and decision making systems

• Joined early in production
• Prototyping of several Gameplay Systems
• Design and Implementation of BehaviorTree runtime in Valhalla engine
• After switch to Unreal Engine 4, refocusing on AI:
  • Perception and Awareness Escalation
  • Faction Behavior
  • Cover Based Combat

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After shipping Robinson: The Journey I moved to the Hunt team to help with various player related gameplay systems.

• Implementing systemic weapon recoil
• Prototype player jump
• General maintenance of the inventory and weapon systems

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I joined the team early in its production phase as a generalist game programmer, primarily focusing on AI. My tasks included the following:

• Taking over major parts of the ‘interest system’. The system gives input for agent’s idle behavior as well as providing designers with an ability to setup scripted sequences.
• Maintenance of the Boid technology (/flock animals).
• Changes to the pathfinding, including rules for handling of positions outside the navigation mesh and selection logic for AI Paths.
• Implementing aspects of ‘pet-like’ agent behavior.
• Implementing handling of AI-Systems related game pause logic (including refactor of low level engine timing).

The C++/CLI experimentation lead to a more versatile script layer using Mono and SWIG code generation. Internally referred to CE# this experiment grew into a core engine feature. My contributions to the project were

• Implementation of the embedded Mono runtime on engine side
• Creation of a workflow to automatically generate wrapper code from the common layer of the engine, using a modified version of SWIG
• Implementation of Monodevelop addins to handle engine specific path discovery and project setup as well as supporting debugging of code running inside the embedded Mono runtime
• Development of a framework layer (called ‘Core’ framework) on-top of the generated wrapper code, to allow easier access to engine functionality – for example the easy creation of entity classes and automatic exposure to CRYENGINE Sandbox
• Creation of VR Editor implemented in C#. The VR Editor was displayed at GDC2016. Twitter link

Die C++/CLI-Experimente im Zuge der EXUP-Projekte führten zu der Entwicklung einer vielfältiger einsetzbaren C#-unterstützenden Skiptszstems. Das Systeme verwendete eine Mono Laufzeitumgebung und nutzte die Systeme der CryEngine durch eine SWIG-generierte Codeschicht. Intern als CE# bezeichnet wurde das System schließlich voll in die Engine übernommen und auch externen Lizenznehmern zur Verfügung gestellt. Als einer der anstoßgebenden Entwickler habe ich an folgenden Teilen des Systems gearbeitet:

• Implementierung der Mono Laufzeitumgebung als Teil der Spieleengine
• Ausarbeiten und Aufsetzen der Arbeitsabläufe (und Werkzeuge) für die automatische Wrapper-Generierung.
• Entwicklung von MonoDevelop addins um die Entwicklungsumgebung besser in die Spieleengine einzubinden und um Live Debugging zu ermöglichen.
• Entwicklung eines ‘Core’ genannten Frameworks, welches zwischem dem generierten Code und dem Nutzercode sitzt. Hauptzweck des Frameworks ist es eine ‘C#-typischere’ Entwicklererfahrung zu bieten und nutzerstellte Klassen leichter im CryEngine Sandbox Editor zur Verfügung zu stellen.
• Erstellung eines VR Editors in C#. Der VR Editor wurde auf der GDC2016 präsentiert. Twitter link

The team was founded to serve non-gaming customers of CryEngine. I joined shortly after its inception and worked on projects ranging from three-dimensional data visualization over promotional demos to simulators. Technical achievements include:

• Maintenance of a C++/CLI based script layer
• Integration of Speech Recognition using MS Speech API – including support of a non-stock language through custom phoneme-mapping
• Experimental integration of Steering Wheels (Direct Input GameController devices)
• Experimental integration of DBOX Motion hardware
• Input-Output-Streaming sending rendered frames using Nvidia GRID cards to lightweight ffmpeg based clients. Client platforms were: Windows, Linux, iOS, Android
• Implementation of project-related UI (C# WPF) and application logic

The projects also included marketing demos, like the Audi VR Experience, for the A4 Quattro (B9), displayed during the International Motor Show 2015 in Germany. Vimeo Link

I joined the team several years after the original steam release, in order to maintain the game. Aside from the usual bug fixes and optimizations, I worked on a general UI-overhaul and several game-play features, including:

• A new capture-point based game mode
• Stealth mechanic for space vehicles
• Hit indicators

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Siebenwind is a German hardcore roleplay Ultima Online freeshard. I used to play on the shard from 2001 on and at some point in 2007 I joined the Staff and helped in various capacities. Starting with world design, over player support I finally ended up spending most of my time on the technical side of things. Developing tools to make it easier to edit the game world and the files, as well as writing server side scripts.