Gareth Falkingham
Verified Expert in Engineering
Game Developer
Gareth从事专业游戏制作已有10年, with a core focus on building robust systems and maintainable architectures for Unity3D C# game titles. 他对c++有很深的理解, which has helped when working with native platform code and building plugins for Unity projects. Some of Gareth's notable work experiences include working on Disney projects such as Club Penguin and Rival Stars: Horse Racing, a successful mobile title.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
JetBrains Rider,手机游戏开发,手机,游戏开发,Git, c#, Unity, Lua
The most amazing...
...我参与的项目是《欧博体育app下载》, 非常成功的移动多平台(PS4), Xbox One, Switch, iOS, Android) project.
Work Experience
Senior Engineer
Playmake
- 开发核心经济和进程系统(gacha), offers, missions, 提高盈利和用户粘性指标.
- Analyzed the data of released features to determine their value and success for future products and decide whether to keep or cut them.
- 开发分析收集工具,以整理和提供比较分析, 将我们的游戏与顶级平台游戏进行比较,看看我们的增长是否更好, worse, or equal.
Unity3D Developer
Curious Creators Co.
- 协助团队学习Unity引擎的复杂性.
- 为虚拟现实打造了一个世界空间镜子,让玩家可以看到自己的化身.
- 编写优化指南并实现优化, leading to a 50% performance increase and allowing the team to continue to develop optimally.
Technical Manager
PikPok
- 管理来自不同背景的6名技术团队成员, seniority, projects, and skillsets.
- 为初级游戏程序员设计并提供培训材料.
- 协助面试过程, candidate screening, technical screening, and onboarding of new staff.
- 对一名表现不佳的员工进行绩效管理, 从而提高员工的敬业度和绩效.
- Supported under-represented groups and provided them with the tools to elevate issues and see their progress.
- 参与了一个小型任务小组,致力于改进整个工作室的敏捷过程.
Senior Game Programmer
PikPok
- 带领由8名程序员组成的团队在Xbox One上发布了《欧博体育app下载》, PS4, and Switch, and continued to lead the team for its release on Android and iOS as Rival Stars: Horse Racing, with >100,000 DAU.
- Wrote a native voice chat plugin for PS4 that supported eight-player star topology peer-to-peer multiplayer. This is available on the Playstation developer forums and is being used by other Unity developers.
- Built a tutorial system for Dungeon Inc that is flexible and now exists in four projects. 这是在新西兰游戏开发者大会上发布的教程系统.
- Built a limited-time offer system for Rival Stars: Horse Racing that allows game designers to create custom offers on the fly and deliver them via server payloads.
- Designed a robust architecture for Rival Stars: Horse Racing in order to support offline builds for consoles and server-authoritative builds for mobile devices.
- Developed an optimized logging system that will produce zero allocations in release builds and allows different log levels per category, 哪些当前存在于多个项目中.
- Developed a prototype augmented reality mode for Rival Stars: Horse Racing that is now a fully-featured part of the released game, 增加社交渠道的参与度.
Unity Client Developer
Goodgame Studios
- Refactored the tutorial system in collaboration with the original developer to ensure its continued flexibility.
- Worked closely with VFX and SFX teams to develop a tool that allows them to add their effects quickly and easily. VFX和SFX团队都使用相同的系统.
- Optimized the skill system code by refactoring the third-party code for the Node-based editor to reduce frame delays.
Game Programmer
CerebralFix
- 用c++为《欧博体育app下载》创建基于lua的教程系统, 允许通过内容下载将教程更改传递给客户端. This allowed us to improve our new user funnel rate by 10% without deploying a new binary.
- Developed a C# TCP server for real-time asynchronous gameplay in Primal Rivals and deployed it to AWS.
- Developed a Club Penguin minigame for Disney in C++ that had good responses from user testing and the Club Penguin community.
- Optimized the scripting in The Good Dinosaur: Dino Crossing to completely remove noticeable frame drops due to garbage collection.
Experience
Murder Party
http://www.roblox.com/games/5611648039/Murder-Party竞争明星:赛马/帕尔圈:赛马挑战
http://pikpok.com/games/rival-stars-horse-racing/I was the technical lead on this project and was responsible for architecting the multiplatform nature of the codebase. 我专门为PS4/XboxOne编写原生主机代码, such as voice chat, multiplayer, and user management. For the mobile version, I worked on assorted features, from prototyping the AR mode now available in the game and building the limited time offer and tutorial systems.
Dungeon Inc.
http://pikpok.com/games/dungeon-inc/Heroes Realm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF0ovPiKQygPrimal Rivals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWQfZojGrNcGood Dinosaur: Dino Crossing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23BKLg7-LE4企鹅俱乐部的Pizzatron小游戏
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H10hPHGcyQSkills
Languages
Lua, C#, C++, C++98, C++11, Python 3, ActionScript 3, Flash ActionScript, Objective-C, Curl Language
Frameworks
Unity, Unity3D, Photon Unity Networking(双关)
Tools
Git, Subversion (SVN), JetBrains Rider, Mercurial, Perforce, Google Sheets, cURL Command Line Tool
Paradigms
敏捷,管理,手机游戏设计
Other
Game Development, Mobile Game Development, Games, Unity Game Assets, PS4, Leadership, 3D, Game Design, Unity3D原生插件接口, Mobile Payments, Unity Networking & 局域网,塑料SCM,虚拟现实(VR),增强现实(AR)
Platforms
Xbox, Android, iOS, Oculus, Mobile, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Libraries/APIs
SQLAlchemy, Google Sheets API
Education
软件与信息技术学士学位
林肯大学-基督城,新西兰
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