Jonathan Palmer: Passionate Game Designer Seeking Full Time Employment or Internship
Jonathan Palmer: Passionate Game Designer Seeking Full Time Employment or Internship
Jonathan Palmer: Passionate Game Designer Seeking Full Time Employment or Internship
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Work Experience Instructor, Kids on Campus at RIT (Summer 2013 & 2012, Full-time) Taught 10-12th grade students core programming concepts Covered C#, XNA, Unity 3D, basic Kinect, scripting, and component architecture Software Developer, RIT Innovation Center (Winter 2012-2013) Developed features for EDGETable, a networked collaborative workspace Ran regular regression and connection testing for prototype EDGETable Selected Projects Peripheral Void, a 3D Puzzle game made with DirectX 11 (March 2013 - Current) Vision mechanics based around where the player looks Developed 3D graphics pipeline and culling algorithms Project Manager to a team of four Designed levels to engage players while teaching game concepts Scandinavian Fishing Conspiracy, 1st winner in Microsoft rapid development competition (Dec 2011) Scandinavian Fishing Conspiracy is a 2D top down fishing game written in C# Fish populations on each level affect the next level depending on how much the player overfished Designed the game mechanics to convey the dangers of overfishing Organized our efforts in group of four as Project Manager CTF_ForsakenComplex, a Team Fortress 2 capture the flag map (2008-2009) Constructed in Hammer Editor as a personal project Destructible environment changes the game play over time Designed areas and game play routes to maintain class power balance Skills & Interests Proficient languages: C#, C++, ActionScript 3.0 Familiar languages: C, Java, Javascript, Python, PHP, Ruby, SQL Passions: Level Design, Psychology, Physics, Tabletop Games Microsoft Visual Studio Excel & Word Direct X Team Foundation Server (TFS) Miscellaneous / SDK - Hammer Editor - Unreal Editor - Unity - Git 3D Modeling Autodesk Maya Autodesk Mudbox ProDesktop CADkey Adobe - Flash - Photoshop - FlashDevelop