Thomas O'Connor Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Founder of a bootstrapped video game startup focused on platform co-development. Current role is as Studio Director focusing on our partnership relationships, business development, production management, operations, human resources, and administration. Also doubling as an Executive Producer for many projects by supporting project scheduling and milestone planning, submissions, and Live Ops.

Seattle

Organizer, board member, and Treasurer of the Seattle Indies, a 501(c)(3) organization that is dedicated to fostering a vibrant and inclusive community of independent game developers in the greater Puget Sound area.

Redmond

Redmond, Wa

http://www.pce.uw.edu/courses/server-based-game-development/downtown-seattle-winter-2013/Course I teach at University of Washington's Professional and Continuing Education. It builds on the foundations of gameplay in HTML5 to have students develop an increasingly complex game. It also introduces a new set of technologies in networking the game client with online services.Duties include giving lectures and providing code samples so students develop their own game engine using HTML5 technologies, expanding upon it with advanced gameplay, and extend it with online services through writing their own server application.My class lectures site: http://html5.playeveryware.com

Hybrid is an innovative multiplayer 3rd person cover-based shooter for XBLA using the Valve Source Engine. Primarily worked on gameplay systems, audio integration, UX through Scaleform/Flash, and XBLA systems.Weapons, Abilities, Game Modes, Special Effects, various HUD and Menu elements.

Mixed programming roles, taking on several lead and senior engineering responsibilities, for the XBLA title "Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet", released Summer 2011. Animation systems, Bullet physics integration, Lua integration, Script systems, Resource and data formats/pipeline/run-time management, wxLua based Level Editor, Build tools, debug systems, publisher submissions, XBox 360 Live Arcade (xcontent packages, profile/guide integration, save files, achievements, leaderboards, trial mode, TCRs).Worked on a very small programming team to build a game engine from scratch to meet the very demanding requirements of shipping a 60fps xbla game in time for Summer of Arcade. Worked closely with artists and scripters to define, implement, and support features that meet their needs with the game engine and tools. Worked with an external test team to deliver builds and fix reported issues.

Unreleased music based shooter "Aleph/Transcend" for XBLA, based on the IGF 2008 Student Showcase winning game "Synaesthete"° Programming: Integration with Bullet and PhysX; physics component editor; character controller and contact responses; Lua system debugging, performance and memory management° Gameplay: Beat-matching; player feedback; UI/HUD; prototypes° XBox 360: profile management; leaderboards; achievements; guide integration; trial mode

DigiPen game that covered my junior and senior years. My work was split across C++ and Lua, focused on Architecture, Physics, Networking, and Gameplay. Also managed a development wiki for tracking production progress.

Customer Service for pro-rated PC and Console game rentals. Tracked Arcade machine consignment income, organized game tournaments, developed software applications (Excel, VBScript) to track client usage and simplify PC management duties. Also worked on employee schedules and licensing agreements.