James Foster Email & Phone Number

Culver City, California, Us

One of the lead engineers on Monopoly GO, top grossing app in the App Store, August 2023 - present.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Was working on unannounced mobile title when the studio was closed.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Lead Gameplay Programmer on ‘Dragonvale World’, prior to that I was one of the primary gameplay and backend programmers. Created several key systems used throughout the project and spent time with design and production to improve processes and efficiency.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

One of the two primary programmers on mobile game 'Spellfall', Editor's Choice in August 2014, and Apple's iPhone 'Game of the Month' for August 2014. I've also worked on the localization tech used by Backflip at that time for various games. My primary focus with Spellfall was gameplay, UI, and tools and processes to help the design and art teams get content into the game quickly using the company's proprietary game engine.

I started an open-source 3D game engine to run on Microsoft XNA. The project ended up with about 60,000 downloads before XNA was cancelled. The goal of this project was to create a simple to understand game engine that would run on the XNA framework. The engine architecture is similar to that of Unity, however the engine was far from a complete game engine, lacking major features like a level editor.Project was moved to https://github.com/nfoste82/quickstart_engine after its original location at CodePlex shut down.

Denver, Co, Us

Server-side gameplay logic (using Scala and Java) on Pokemon Online TCG and Elder Scrolls TCG.

Billund, Dk

I was a Gameplay Programmer on LEGO Universe for just over 4 years. I created or collaborated on a majority of the fundamental gameplay systems and interactions that players got to see, including the interaction system, moving platforms, bounce pads, pets system, input system, player controls, camera system, icon indicators system. I also worked closely with the content designers and level designers to make sure they could easily implement the type of gameplay they had envisioned, I helped them know the restrictions of the engine, exposed parts of the engine to the scripting system, identify potential issues and helped track down and fix hundreds of bugs. I worked with the designers to find the things that were taking up a lot of their time so that we could find solutions to increase their efficiency. I also created numerous tools that the entire development team used to gather information about the in-game world which made fixing bugs and developing content quite a bit faster and easier. I was also often involved in finding performance issues with the game and helping to fix them.My employment with LEGO ended when they shut down the entire Studio and closed down the project I was involved in. I am proud to say I was part of an excellent product that reached millions of kids and pushed the boundaries of what people expected from an MMO.

Louisville, Colorado, Us

I was a Gameplay Programmer at NetDevil working on LEGO Universe. I worked on a handful of key gameplay systems (controls, cameras, platforming, quickbuilds, system that let players use an in-game programming language on their own LEGO models), and tools to support design's content creation.In 2011 LEGO Universe was purchased by LEGO Group and that is how I ended up leaving -- moving from NetDevil to LEGO Group.

Bachelors Game Software Development, Programming, Mathematics

Mathematics, History, Biology

Diploma