End-Point Assessor for Level 7 Game Programmer apprentices.

Hexahedra released May 2024! An open-ended programming puzzle game. Design and program factories to produce cubes, the galaxy's most important commodity, and help a tiny octopus with a nightmare family visit. https://s.team/a/1248420

- Working in the team responsible for the game engine, servers, and support services for both RuneScape 3 and Old School RuneScape.- Primarily involved in bringing OSRS to mobile, both Android and iOS.- Rewriting large parts of OSRS to support both desktop and mobile.- OSRS Mobile FCL on 30th October 2018. 1M+ installs on each store in the first week.

- Tasked with designing and building a completely new tech stack (supported by another developer after a few months) for a greenlit prototype.- Architecture designed in collaboration with our Ops team to make best use of the live datacentre setup.- Built in C# with a Unity client, running under Mono on the live Linux infrastructure.- Highly parallelized asynchronous server architecture, with each server instance running hundreds of games simultaneously.- Involved in live operations, including being on-call for out-of-hours support.- Provided code design support to other team members.

Part of a small team working in Unity and C# to produce a prototype for a new IP. Produced the bulk of the work on the game server and networking to allow several players to interact in a test environment.

- A year as part of a small team implementing an HTML5 RS3 game client in JavaScript and WebGL, working on a wide range of client features - asset loading, gameplay features, UI, animation systems, camera control, code obfuscation, basic shader work.- Also time spent working in the main RS3 engine team, in Java. For part of that time, embedded into a content team working directly with engine users and providing a quick turnaround on requests.

- Began as an investigative project to build a Travian-style game in a proprietary, Java-based language developed at Jagex, with an HTML/JavaScript frontend.- Designed and implemented the server architecture to support the supplied game design, as well as implementing gameplay.- Bringing incoming team members up to speed on code structure and the language, and providing code design support and feedback.- Post-launch, performing live operations and on-call support.

- Working in Java to produce games served as Java applets within the browser.- Carried out a redesign and update of strategy game Shattered Plans.

Working in Java to produce systems that support Jagex's games business, such as billing systems, information services for players, and staff-side systems needed for Customer Support or internal reporting, all with webpage-driven interfaces.