About Me

I have a passion for creating quality, believable gaming experiences that offer depth and replayability.

I am currently based in Australia, where I have been working as a programmer for several years, doing game modding in my spare time.

Contact me via email

Software

• Level Editors: UnrealEd (Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament 3), Aurora Toolset (Neverwinter Nights, Neverwinter Nights 2), Hammer (Half-Life 2)
• Art Tools: Photoshop, 3DSMax
• Other Software: Visual Studio .NET 2003/2005/2008, Microsoft Office, Tortoise SVN

Skills

• Terrain Creation and texturing
• Entity Placement
• Writing (Dialogue, plot, setting)
• Quest Creation and Design
• Design and project planning documentation
• Level and game flow planning
• AI/Event Scripting (Neverwinter Nights 2)
• BSP Block-out
• Lighting
• Scripting: Perl, Python
• Programming: C/C++, C#, .NET

Game Experience

Module Designer - Fate of a City (Neverwinter Nights 2)
Jan 2008 - Oct 2008

• This solo project is a professional module offering 10-15 hours of gameplay
• Created design documentation, setting and plot
• Created and populated over 50 areas
• Developed custom AI script routines for weather, population and enemies
• Wrote over 200 scripts and 140,000 words of dialogue
• Planned and created over 25 in-game cutscene sequences

Education

University of Tasmania, 2000 - 2004
Bachelor of Computing (First Class Honours)