Stumble Guys

Working as part of a large team (200+) on a massive live service game with millions of daily active players. The game is cross platform available on all major platforms including PC, Console, Mobile and Web. Part of the project evolution pod doing full-stack development making game quality improvements e.g. UI overhauls, LiveOps tools, Quality of Life features and Bug/Security fixes. A rapid release cycle of every 2 weeks, ensuring new content and features were available every patch for the players. Regular tech release ownership responsibility, ensuring releases go smoothly with minimal issues, along with reviewing incoming changes, minimising risk and maintaining clear communication with all other departments.

Contributions:

• Client Programming
• Server Programming
• UI Programming
• Localisation
• LiveOps Tool Development

Stumble Guys - Levels

Later working as part of the gameplay cluster to create new levels, game modes and mechanics, working closely with art and design to build new gameplay experiences for a huge and varied global audience of players. Rebuilding the game architecture to be more extensible, maintainable and performant whilst keeping the same game feel across all platforms. Constantly improving the game performance to support the low spec devices as the levels endlessly improve in graphical fidelity and complexity. Mentoring coworkers through running workshops and 1:1 sessions to improve technical understanding of the game and surrounding development processes.

Contributions:

• Client Programming
• Gameplay Programming
• Architecture Design
• Optimisation
• Mentoring
• Tech Release Ownership

Project Diablo 2

Live service mod for Diablo 2 maintaining the original feel of the game whilst improving to modern standards. In the release season we achieved a concurrent player base of 12-15k players and over 120k accounts and maintained 10k+ players to this day. I designed many of the classes, bosses and game system changes and additions as well as implementing the full range of features and fixes, collaborating with the rest of the team.

Contributions:

• Reverse Engineering
• Class, Enemy, Item and System Design
• Encounter Design
• Gameplay Programming
• Game System Programming
• Anti-Cheat
• Bug Fixes and Stability

Tag Games

Working as part as a small team on an unannounced live service game in Unity. I started on the project from the initial stages building and designing fundamental mechanics and systems, iterating on playtests and liasing with stakeholders to improve the game experience and direction and to build as much of the game as possible for a short deadline

Contributions:

• Gameplay Programming
• Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer
• Game System Design
• Game System Programming
• Combat Design
• Level Design
• Optimisation

Path of Building

Open-Source community driven build planning tool for Path of Exile that allows players to easily plan their characters in detail and calculates offensive and defensive values staying accurate to the game's mechanics even as they frequently change with updates.

Contributions:

• Feature Updates
• Calculation Accuracy
• Bug Fixes

Roguelike Shooter

Top-down procedural dungeon crawler where the player has a large arsenal of possible weapons that spawn throughtout combat creating varied and adaptive gameplay. Built with a custom made Java based engine to handle physics, state, AI, procedural generation etc.

Contributions:

• Team Lead
• Engine Development
• Gameplay and Systems Design
• Gameplay Programming
• Enemy and Weapon Programming