I got recruited straight from my college portfolio show.I started Game Mechanics in North Hollywood at early January 2015. I began working from Mobile Apps, Google TV and Amazon TV Apps. Then soon after we moved on to VR. I had early prototype access to the Vive, PSVR, Rift, nearly 2 years before it even released the consumer version.

Im a software engineer at Game Mechanic Studios, I am involved in Game play programming in multiple on going projects. I must make rapid iteration to solve any problems quick to always hit my deadlines. There nearly inst any project that i haven't been involved in at the studio since i started.

I now live in North Hollywood happy with my wife, my new dog and 2 cats

I have worked on many several VR projects, however I am not at liberty to mention them, since Game Mechanic Studios doesn't own the rights to these projects.

Here is  a vague description on what they were

Winter 2015, I began to porting over Game Mechanics own High Flyer Death Defyr game from IOS to               Google Play TV and Amazon TV.  

Spring 2015, I started on on a VR game based on a scary movie. 

October 2015, I was Lead Gameplay programmer on a scary VR experience that launched a Demo Booth In many Movie Theaters Nationwide along side the Move Debut.

March 2016,  I altered an Alpha version of the game to make a Demo for GDC2016. It was one of the most Scariest Games IGN has ever played. 

I continued that project until Late Summer of 2016, for reasons I am not allowed to expose.

October 2016,  I did 1 month straight crunch on TBD VR title based off the PC game Dead Realm.

Fall of 2016, I was doing a VR experience involving the Haptic company Immersion.

Winter of 2017, I started the Tree Demo Experience for the Sundance Festival

Spring of 2016, We finished a VR Demo Experience for Immersion to show at GDC
I continue on supporting the Tree Project for upcoming Film festivals.

Summer of 2017, I am working an exciting app, that involves the Cineworld brand.
I continue on supporting the Tree Project for upcoming Film festivals.
I continue on working Immersion for an enhanced E3 Demo.

When you graduate you are expected to pick up and go. Be confident and rely on your training.

Learn to adapt quickly. If you don't know, learn and do so quickly.

​Be open to do a task at multiple times. Its not done till its done at least 3 times.

Communicate problems early, miscommunication is nearly the majority of most problems.

Don't write unreadable code, Someone else is going to have to read that crap, and you will be judged. 

Don't ever underestimate a simple task. Even the most simplest of tasks go horribly wrong.

This is going to a Hybrid of an authoritative frame work. Nearly all the game logic, is going to be handled on the Host.


A.I. scripts on the remote Client's are turned off. 

                                            Network Relationship

CLIENTS to HOST
Clients are going to RPC to the host if the "Shot a Zombie "(8/29/14- Change to Logic to the Host)
Clients are going to RPC to  the host "Threat Changes"(8/29/14- Change to Logic the on Host )

Broadcast to ALL CLIENTS(8/29/14- Change )
ALL Clients are going to RPC to everyone when they are Shooting for visual Purposes(However All Logic is going to be on host)
No LONGER  NEEDED : ALL Clients are Going to RPC when  a Zombie Dies, 

 Most A.I. Logic run on the Photons Client Master , Including Spawning, Most State Changes,

• Sync Pos, Rotation
• RPC State Changes

Its a little wrinkled because it was in a envelope folded in my backpack. I Didn't know it was a an award, I assumed it was a large tuition bill.   

My Objective 
    To create a FPS Game using Raknet networking and then expand on both gameplay and networking  for future projects.

Blockers
     A change in plans on using the Unreal 4 engine. Do to hardware limitations in both my home computer and Campuses Computer's. I couldn't run the Unreal 4 Engine in a steady productive environment. Hopefully in the near future I will be able to.
      
    MyBlocks

• Slow Compile Times, 2 mins for 1 additional script.
  
• Low Frame Rate, even at low environment settings.
• No syntax highlighting, no auto complete.
• My  computer Specs ; Graphics: GTX 460, Ram: 6 GB, CPU: I7 960 Quad core 3.20 GHz.
  

     I knew hardware was going to be a challenge but I didn't think it was going to be the main obstacle. That being said, I still believe that the U4 is still a great engine and I plan on learning the U4 using personal time.

    I am now using the IRRLICHT engine. Its a very light and Optimized C++ engine. Its an open source low level engine that handles scene management by wrapping around a selection of graphics drivers to choose from. So far it has been absolute pleasure to work in.

Future Potential Blockers

• Lobby System: The method on which players connect to one another
• How to broadcast existing game objects to new players
• How to broadcast new game objects to existing players
• How to broadcast deleted game objects to existing players
• How to create and destroy objects dynamically as the player moves around the world
• How to allow the client to create objects locally when this is necessary right away for programming or graphical reasons (such as shooting a bullet)
• How to update objects as they change over time
• Extensive Debugging

Schedule
      
    I'm set back 3 weeks do to the problems with U4, I'm moving in Lightspeed mode. I should have been in at the point where I would be displaying a GUI Text of the available Game Rooms, and Joining them. However I just have completed the GUI start menu and a skeletal framework of the lobby system. I wanted to do a Authoritative Server, However It may just be a peer to peer using as Raknet's test Proxy server to host a connection. Luckily theres a simple demo example of this and I just may have to extend it from that.

• Week 5: Lobby System
• Week 6: Game Creation
• Week 7: Gameplay, Serializable data  
  
• Week 8: Gameplay, RPC Calls, Create and Destroy Objects
• Week 9:Custom Game Assets import (Map, Player, Gun, GUI), Debugging 
• Week 10: Polish
• Week 11: Present