- Sims 2 Console (Engineer, worked on Create-a-Sim)
- Sims 2 Pets for Consoles (Engine Lead, mainly worked on optimization)
- Sims 2 Castaway for PS2 and Wii (Technical Director - worked on LOTS of stuff, but primarily Create-a-Sim, Back-end Database tools, and the in-game weather system)
- Moved to Stormfront Studios for a while (just before they shut down, unfortunately) and worked on Spiderwick Chronicles (Senior Engineer, worked on Load/Save mostly since I came onto the project so late)
- Decided I didn't like Stormfront, so moved back to EA (SF announced they were shutting down a week after I gave notice...ironic)
- Worked on Sims 3 (Senior Engineer, worked on overall game optimization and then spent the rest of the time on path finding)
- Sims 3 World Adventures (Senior Engineer, did a brief stint and worked on routing in basements and on bridges)
- Sims 3 Wii (Technical Director, weird project - mainly I talked to a lot of people in the the development company that actually did the work and ported a bunch of code from another internal project to their code-base to help them. Definitely not a role I think I was very good at or want to do again)
- Sims 3 3DS (Senior Engineer, came in right at the end of the project and helped do some bug fixing for a month or so. It's now been announced as a launch title (at least in Europe) for that platform, so I can publicly say that I think the game kicks ass. That dev team rocks)
- Current Project (Senior Engineer, unannounced project so I can't say anything about it, but what I'm working on is path finding and unlike on Sims 3 where we were forced to make some sub-optimal choices based on time (though, despite the severe roadblocks we faced, I think the final product was pretty good...and if you disagree, you should have seen what we had to start with and how long we had to fix it!), I have some freedom to do path finding from the ground up and do it right this time...or at least better
)So that's my gamedev career highlights up to the current point in time. I re-read some of the old entries in this journal and I have to laugh about how nervous I was about interviewing at EA originally. I'm much more relaxed and confident now - having a couple games under my belt helps
At any rate, I think I'm going to start writing in this journal again as I'm starting work on a very interesting problem and it will be fun to blog about it a bit and get some advice from the many smart people here on GameDev.
