Christopher Dabney Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tn, Us

Mountain View, Ca

San Jose

Project Pirate Maidens - Card strategy game licensed from Japan, ported for the American audience by Aeria, targeting iOS platform. My responsibilities included working closely with localization and production teams to translate database contents, hard-coded literals in source, and graphics from Japanese to English while porting events and campaigns from original source. My responsibilities also included bug fixes and feature updates/additions according to local design teams.Project:… Show more Project Pirate Maidens - Card strategy game licensed from Japan, ported for the American audience by Aeria, targeting iOS platform. My responsibilities included working closely with localization and production teams to translate database contents, hard-coded literals in source, and graphics from Japanese to English while porting events and campaigns from original source. My responsibilities also included bug fixes and feature updates/additions according to local design teams.Project: Armygeddon - turn-based strategy game Implemented using C# in the Unity Environment, targeting the iOS platform. My responsibilities included C# Development, integrating 3D models into the game, handling the menu systems, writing AI state machine, writing core game logic, and generating deliverables in XCode. Frequent iterations with design, art, and qa teams, process managed by scrum/agile sprints & standups. Show less

Palo Alto

Project: Gold Fever - Educational desktop game using Adobe AIR flash actionscript & pureMVC framework. My responsibilities included researching optimal platform, designing and implementing the database, designing and implementing each feature of the application in the client, writing proper queries for front-end-back-end communication, researching & implementing licensing support and purchasing processes.Project: Lunar Lander - Developed a casual version of Atari's classic Lunar Lander… Show more Project: Gold Fever - Educational desktop game using Adobe AIR flash actionscript & pureMVC framework. My responsibilities included researching optimal platform, designing and implementing the database, designing and implementing each feature of the application in the client, writing proper queries for front-end-back-end communication, researching & implementing licensing support and purchasing processes.Project: Lunar Lander - Developed a casual version of Atari's classic Lunar Lander game implemented in a Flash PureMVC framework client & LAMP Stack with Php Zend Framework on the back end. My responsibilities included porting Isometric Framework developed during Music Tycoon (see below) for the base station and working on a 2-man team to develop the Lunar Lander minigame, including planet rendering & scrolling, dynamic platform generation, & physics management for rocket. Worked with art, design, & qa in rapid iterations to deliver milestone builds. Worked closely with the Atari Teams for platform protocols.Project: Music Tycoon - Social Networking Avatar Flash Game targeting Facebook Platform. My responsibilities as a Lead Game Engineer included designing and implementing the technical aspects of many features in the game, as well as writing an isometric framework from scratch and integrating 3D avatars into a 2D platform. I used Dijkstras pathfinding algorithms and sophisticated layering techniques to reduce draw calls and optimize performance, and did extensive research to track down memory leaks and develop patches in the PaperVision3D Collada model support.Project: EGO City - Social Networking Avatar Flash Game. My responsibilities included porting Flash Application SWFs to Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, & Friendster, as well as researching each of these platforms to unlock their REST APIs for viral marketing, and customizing scripts and sharing features to reach a maximum possible audience. Show less

San Mateo

My responsibilities included porting J2ME mobile applications to a spectrum of handsets including LG, Samung, Nokia, BlackBerry, Sony Erickson, & Motorolla. Learned to consider device issues & device limitations, write dynamic code to consider differences like screen sizes and network handling. Exposure to J2ME API.

Education record

Bachelor'S Degree Of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Mathematics