Josh Watkins Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Generalist gameplay engineer with a focus on animation for multiple titlesAge of Empires 4 - Combat and Animation Programmer- Worked on the gameplay team from Prototype to Ship- Overhauled the studio's animation to support root motion- Worked closely with combat designers to implement and support features- Worked closely with animators and tech artists to troubleshoot and implement features, both in-game and in-pipeline- Worked as part of a strike team to overhaul the structure of the studio's simulation- Worked as part of a strike team to overhaul Age of Empires pathfinding systems- Worked as part of the optimization team to improve game performance for 18 monthsCompany of Heroes 3- Joined the project during Finaling to fix animation and gameplay bugs- Worked closely with animation and gameplay leads to triage and prioritize issuesUnannounced projects- Worked as part of small teams to prototype multiple new projects- Worked to prototype and implement new features quickly including new input schemes and a loot-drop system- Worked to research and document an overhaul of the studio's animation system

Marvel Battlegrounds for Disney Infinity 3.0 - UI Engineer- Worked as the only UI Engineer for the majority of the project- Implemented new screens and HUD elements in Flash and Actionscript- Built on existing functionality in the Infinity Octane engine- Worked closely with the project's UI Artist to design and implement all of the game's UISmash+Grab - Live Games Platform Engineer- Was brought on to help the server team ramp up to launch- Improved and maintained the game's automatic smoketesting system- Owned a large project to create a crash-reporting system for the live game- Deployed the game platform to various environments- Gained useful experience working with AWS, Javascript, SQL databases, C#, HTML and live opsSleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition - UI Engineer- In charge of all the game's UI tasks- Worked to bring forward all of the game's UI and various other systems ( save/load, wardrobe ) from last gen to current gen- Worked in a large, complicated, proprietary existing game engineVarious other projects- Brought in to help fix bugs and make games ready for release

Canada

EA Sports 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil – EA Sports Canada Game Modes Software Engineer• Gained valuable experience working in a triple-A environment during every step of a project from Pre-Production to Finaling • Owned the stability of both Tournament-based modes ( World Cup Finals and Road To The World Cup )• Handled the creation, destruction and navigation of various game states between and inside of all of the game’s modes• Built front-end screens with various functions such as game options screens, game bootflow and screens designed to display large amounts of data• Collected back-end data and sent that data to the front end screens in an organized and extensible manner• Interfaced with many different programming disciplines ( Online, Presentation and Rendering, Systems ) to solve problems in their areas and my own• Worked with Interface Designers to solve visual issues on front-end screens

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Game Development

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