Benjamin Lewis

• Designed and implemented an entirely new scripting language from the lexicon, parser and byte code generation to the runtime, stack-based interpreter. The system was an improvement of over 40% in byte code size from its predecessor.
• Created a tool chain to export camera paths and key frames from Maya and import them into the game as scripted cinematic events.
• Re-designed the menu system so that all menus are created at compile-time, compressed, and quickly re-created at runtime. Greatly reduced the code necessary to instantiate individual menus and further reduced the package size of the application.
• Implemented enemy behavior, general game play features, bug fixes and tool chain maintenance (Java Ant build scripts).

• Implemented the entire touch-screen menu system including a custom blitting toolchain that compressed images into texel runs at compile time. Also featured animations using the Nintendo Nitro APIs.
• Responsible for adding EA’s localized string compression/drawing.
• General game play features and bug fixes.

• Fixed and tracked bugs on four different versions of the title
• Responsible for mirroring any code changes between versions
• Set up build process for the low-end BREW port of the game and fixed initial game loading bugs

• Developed a 3D engine using screen capture registers for dual-screen 3D
• Created a bitmap tool to export DS-specific 16-bit color format binary files
• Features touch screen gamplay and stereo sound

• Half Life 2 Source project
• Created a new menu system using the VGUI library
• Implemented a new HUD system and in-game information elements
• Worked closely with both level designers and artists in creating the menu

• Unreal Tournament 2003 project
• Created a crossbow weapon with a unique charging mechanism and custom projectiles
• Constructed 'Guild Seal' and 'Guild Chest' objects in code for a variation on the capture-the-flag game style
• Modified the CTF game rules to accomodate the new style of play

• 2D game engine
• Custom blitting with alpha transparency and post processing effects
• Sprite animation
• 2D physics system

• Designed a grammar for a simple scripting language
• Wrote a parser, tokenizer and compiler
• The compiler was able to print token and line number error details
• Created a virtual machine in C++ that excecuted the Ignavus byte code and managed memory allocation

• Developed a dual API (DirectX / OpenGL) 3D rendering engine
• Height mapped terrain engine with quad tree subdivisions and multiple splat textures.
• Created a real-time editor to modify the height map and texture splat data.
• 3Ds Max exporter and custom engine importer that included 3Ds mesh, bones and quaternion interpolated animation systems.
• FX and assembly OpenGL vertex and pixel shaders for per pixel lighting and bump-mapping.
• BSP model importer and BSP node collision detection.
• Customizable particle system.
• FMod sound library support.

• Created interactive online applications for www.tires.com and associated Discount Tire websites using ActionScript, JavaScript, and Java Struts tags

• Professional Certificate in Digital Game Development, Software Development
• Current GPA: 3.6

• BS, Software Engineering, Cum Laude

• C++, C, C#, Java
• DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL
• OpenGL assembly and FX vertex / pixel shaders, HLSL
• Visual Studio.Net, NetBeans IDE, Eclipse, Photoshop CS, 3Ds Max, WinCVS, TortoiseSVN, UncodeX, Unreal 2004 Editor, MS Office, Word, Excel, Powerpoint
• 3D Linear Algebra - Matrices, vectors, quaternions, SLERP
• Hierarchical Animations
• FMod sound library