Games Programmer
When I first joined FireSprite, I was placed on a graduate team that was creating a tool and app to create and interface with digital comic books, art books, soundtracks and preview content respectively, on the PlayStation 4. The tool to create the content was a Windows application developed in C#, the app that displayed …
After my work on the map client, I moved onto the Nintendo Switch port of The Persistence. This meant adapting the VR functionality to work on a flat screen. There was also the additional challenge of working with the Switch, they were new to the studio and had limited hardware. During this project, I managed …
Caught in the inexorable pull of a black hole, and with the crew mutated into horrific & murderous aberrations, it’s down to you, a clone of security office Zimri Eder, to save the ship and make the jump back to earth. Every time you die, you print a new (and potentially improved) clone of yourself. …
With our experience working with the Switch version of the game, we were tasked with making an enhanced edition to run on the new consoles, I worked on the PS5 and PC versions. This involved adding ray-traced global illumination, reflections, and shadows, as well as Nvidia DLSS to the PC version. This was quite challenging …
One of my responsibilities at FireSprite was to upgrade the companion app for The Persistence. The Persistence is a VR horror title for consoles and PC with a couch co-op element. The companion app is a mobile app that can communicate with the main game, for example you can click on a door in the …
Recently I discovered the potential of bots for myself. Little programs that inhabit IRC (or any chat application for that matter) channels that do the bidding of their users. I am against bots being used maliciously or deceptively – a bot should always identify itself as a bot, never a human. But that does not …
The ray tracer in the student projects section was given to me completed, all I had to do was parallelise it. This ray tracer I wrote entirely myself following Peter Shirley’s tutorial book series. Peter’s Blog When I started noticing decreases in performance, I decided to parallelise this one too. Last time I split the …
This was my first 3D graphical project. It used a framework similar to one that can be built by following the tutorial at Learn OpenGL. It used a height map as an input to generate geometry from a mesh of quads. Then I used another map of my own making that dicatated the location of …
Having written a program in my spare time at University that allowed users to write and view shaders in real time, whilst using the program to create a normal map style shader I found that the resulting normal map was inaccurate. As a result, for my final year project I decided to create a tool …
During my final year of study, I was tasked with optimising a CPU-based ray tracing program. Prior to this I worked on optimising a program that calculated Pi using the Monte-Carlo algorithm. I made an attempt on the CPU using the standard thread library and an attempt on the GPU of my own making*. I …