Benjamin Callaway Email & Phone Number

Long Beach, Ca, Us

Long Beach, Ca, Us

Compton, California, Us

Moorpark, California, Us

I joined Mass Media at the beginning of a project, porting Jak and Daxter, Jak II, and Jak 3 from the PS2 to the PS3.All three Jak games were written in a proprietary language, based on LISP, called GOAL (Game Oriented Assembly Lisp). I was one of three people on the team who learned this language, and I was tasked with making changes to the original game code, such as updates to the menus and removal of code that was no longer necessary, such as guard band checking. I also set up the saving and loading system, trophies, and performed localization tasks.

Short Lived Studios represented my Full Sail graduating class during our final project, which was the creation of a complete game in five months. My nine-person team consisted of seven game development students, a game art student, and a producer working towards a masters degree. We pitched, designed, and built Four Seasons Sprint over that time, with teachers acting only as external producers.Contributions:• Voted Technical Lead by my team.• Worked closely with the producer to organize programming tasks.• Ensured that all programmers used their time as effectively as possible.• Assisted with most game systems, especially collisions and animations.• Designed the system architecture.• Created a stacked state system for menus and an event system for object communication.• Created a texture streaming system in order to cope with memory limitations.• Created Maya exporters for game asset creation.