Alden Higgins Email & Phone Number

California, United States

-Overseeing and leading the game development team at Liquid-Building out the team: hiring and facilitating growth in our personnel-Ensuring successful execution of projects-Fostering innovation, researching new technology, and knowledge sharing internally/externally-Driving Liquid's overall gaming strategy-Helping to spread the joy of gaming :)

Greater Los Angeles Area

My main duty right now is to create VR experiences, mostly revolving around 360-degree renders created by the team, to highlight real estate projects.I've also created a few apps for iOS and Android that feature building walkthroughs rendered in real time as well as aggregating some of the other types of content we create (videos, 360 renders, branding).I'm also responsible for R&D and creating prototype VR experiences mainly revolving around walking through environments rendered in real time.I've been working pretty evenly in both Unity and Unreal.

-Helped develop Black Ops 3-Collaborated with designers to add desired features to AI toolset related to animations-Improved usability of animation test level-Started the development of a new tool to view AI events in-game-Scripted my own game mode in Treyarch's in-house scripting language-Added new AI features-Used Perforce for version control, coded in-engine in C++, developed new tool/functionality in QT5, and got experience sending information across processes with JSON-Participated in an interview series with members from different teams across the studio and learnt about the challenges and got some high-level overviews of what goes into making a AAA title

Worked on the re-launch of beverlyhillschairs.com by implementing new features to the website as well as reformatting existing pages.

Checked investor accounts and produced trade reports in Excel as well as doing odd-jobs around the office.