CookBrite consumer cooking app

• Worked on back-end server team, writing a wide variety of REST APIs across a number of servers;
• Dealt with many aspects of scalable cloud infrastructure including deployment, performance and continuous integration;
• Wrote several iterations of a cooking scheduler to combine multiple cookbook recipes into a single set of instructions.

MetalStorm: Aces

iOS

• Authored a wide variety of iOS client modules in Xcode including a Lua-based behavior tree system and obstacle avoidance AI;
• Added support for various features to Java/Scala cloud-based server (using IntelliJ IDEA);
• Worked on a number of supporting tools and shell scripts such as a browser-based developer interface written in jQuery connecting to the client app using a Mongoose web server;
• Handled interaction with 3rd party libraries including: UIKit, C++ Standard Library, Lua, Scaleform, OpenGL, Bullet Physics and Mongoose;
• Wrote unit and invariant tests for client code;
• Used Apple Instruments to optimize app for speed and size, focusing on compiler settings, memory management systems and individual engine speedups;
• Employed C++11 variadic templates to write automatic Lua function binding system.

This is Vegas

PC/PS3/XBox360, WBIE

Lord of the Rings: War in the North

PC/PS3/XBox360, WBIE

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

PC/PS3/PS4/XBox360, WBIE

• Worked on various aspects of gameplay, specializing in AI;
• Designed and implemented a team-based aggro system.

TraXion

PSP, (unpublished)

• Designed data-driven GUI library for PSP
• Wrote front-end and all other out-of-game interfaces including mp3 catalog/playlist editor

Black & White 2

PC, Electronic Arts

• Working on maintaining all aspects of B&W Creature AI system whist adding new modules
• ALife-inspired physiological system
• Selection system to drive creature attention

Battle of the Gods

B&W2 expansion pack, PC, Electronic Arts

• Assumed full responsibility for creature code
• Worked closely with art, script, design and tools developers on additions to the creature

Intel IT Manager Game

Macromedia Flash, Promotional, Intel

• Assisted web development team in designing their first major interactive title
• Designed object oriented data model for ActionScript game code and formalised game-play rules

A Sound of Thunder

PC/PlayStation 2/Xbox, (unpublished)

• Worked with CA's The Thing engine to add a variety of game-play features such inventory items, weapons and NPCs
• Built on an existing AI system to introduce new character behaviours and strategies

Alone in the Dark 5

PC/Xbox, Atari (unpublished)

• Applied in-game I.K. system to player character weapons aiming

Tidejackers

PlayStation 2, SCI (unpublished)

• Programmed Halo-style assistive aim system for player character
• Wrote a dynamical systems-inspired movement pattern for in-game fauna

Prototype Projects Team

PC/PlayStation 2/Xbox, Internal

• Headed up programming on a small team dedicated to pitching new ideas at publishers
• Rapidly converted existing projects into prototypes with unique content and game-play features

DJ: Decks & FX

(completed at off-shoot studio, Relentless Software), PlayStation 2, SCEE

• Researched and coded a number of audio filters
• Built a context-sensitive help system

Shogun: Total War

PC, Electronic Arts

• Responsible for most of the battle-mode code including soldier/platoon-level AI (flocking, state system, combat system, navigation etc.), networking code (sockets), user interface (all menus, icons, buttons and mouse/keyboard control using DirectInput) and general game code (10,000+ character war engine)
• Designed and wrote game-wide audio system (DirectSound)
• Added substantial number of in-battle graphical features such as volumetric fog, snow, rain, sky-boxes, seas/rivers, and wildlife (Direct3D)
• Created tools such as game launcher and built-in map editor (later to feature in Medieval: Total War)
• Shogun: TW went on to win numerous awards and was nominated for the BAFTA for Best PC Game

The Mongol Invasion/Warlord Edition

Shogun: Total War expansion pack/special edition, PC, Electronic Arts

• Continued the work done on the first Total War title by adding new unit types, maps and other content
• Improved overall performance and reliability of the Shogun engine, releasing patches and a combined Shogun/Mongol Invasion SKU which won Creative Assembly its first BAFTA (for best music)

Medieval: Total War

PC, Activision

• Added game-side support for many extra factions and unit types
• Created system to handle many new permutations of weather conditions and terrain types
• Rewrote core networking system to reduce bandwidth

Standards Proposals for SG6 - Integers

(Copresented with Robert Ramey)

P0037

Fixed point real numbers

P0381

Numeric Width

Formal Computational Skills; Introduction to Computer Science; Artificial Life; Adaptive Behaviour in Animals and Robots

Adaptive Systems; Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour; Neural Computation; Development in Human and Artificial Life

Dissertation: Morphogenesis in the Evolution of Control Architectures for Autonomous Agents

Neural Networks, Artificial Life, Logic and Prologue, Knowledge Engineering, Lisp, POP11; AI Techniques; Recursive Search; Natural Language Processing

A selection of AI-related topics including: Language and Thought; Visual Perception and Consciousness of Mind

A year working for Intelligent Research Ltd. (see above)