I am an engineer with a passion for games, a mature attitude and solid industry experience over the full lifecycle of critically acclaimed AAA title Dead Space: Extraction (82% metascore), from pre-production through to release. I am proficient in C++ and have the communication skills needed to make my technical skills useful in a team environment.
I graduated from the University of Derby in 2010 with a First Class BSc (Hons) degree in Computer Games Programming.
“Henry integrated with the team fantastically… [He] has an excellent work ethic, plans his work thoroughly and embraced the code design process we use… The standard of [his] code is excellent and he works extremely quickly and efficiently. I was able to assign very complex systems for Henry to design and implement with confidence.”
Gareth Clarke, Lead Programmer, Eurocom (via LinkedIn)
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Demos (C++)
- AI Demo – FSMs, steering, A* pathfinding and GOAP.
- Advanced 3D Graphics – Three projects demonstrating a HLSL water shader, skinned mesh animation and ragdoll with DirectX and large scene rendering with DirectX.
- Software Renderer – Featuring Gouraud shading, morph target animation and post-processing effects.
- Videogame Middleware – Designing, implementing and integrating middleware.
- Definite Integral Calculator – Code snippet I did for a side project that has become very popular with blog visitors.
- Simple SAPI – A simple wrapper around a complex speech recognition and text-to-speech API.
Employment/Industry Experience
- Dead Space: Extraction – I spent over a year working on this game at Eurocom in 2008/2009
- Published Article on GameCareerGuide – About my experiences on placement
- Derby Games Studio and BBC Blast – A two week project in 2008 creating a game for the Derby big screen.
Academic Success
As well as achieving first class honours in my degree, I was recently awarded The Brett Butcher Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Graphics and the Microsoft Award for Best Overall Performance in Stage 3 Computing. I also came 3rd in a national competition to highlight promising Games Programming graduates.
My dissertation/applied research project is available on this site.
Postmortems
I have tried to make a habit of writing postmortems of significant projects I undertake.
- Pie-Parazzi – The BBC Blast game I project managed in 2008
- Newton Inversion – Space Trading game (C++/Gamebryo) team project from 2008
- Birds – Extra-curricular XNA team project from 2006. Since then I have done two 3D iterations of it for my own amusement.
