Experience

Development and maintenance of image quality features within rendering. Formalised the de facto transfer from April 2019.

Projects

• Battlefield 2042 (2021) for Win/XBSX/PS5/XB1/PS4
• Future Frostbite-based games

Development and maintenance of rendering systems. Transitioned to the Image Quality cell of the Frostbite Rendering team as of April 2019.

Projects

• Star Wars Battlefront II (2017; live service) for Win/XB1/PS4
• Battlefield V (2018; live service) for Win/XB1/PS4
• FIFA 21 (2020) for PS5/XBSX
• Future Frostbite-based games

Somewhat accidentally ended up in ownership of engine stability. Unreal Engine 4 throughout.

Projects

• OVERKILL's The Walking Dead (2018) for Windows
• Project Crossfire (TBD)

Herding the code hogs at the Kraków branch of the company for a yet unannounced project. Engine/renderer programming on most days; mentoring and recruiting on others. Unreal Engine 4.

Projects

• Space Punks (2021) for Win (before the game had received this name)

Hacking the Unreal Engine 4 renderer to meet performance targets, and the needs and wants of our artists. Miscellaneous engine-side work as well.

Projects

• The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (2015) for PS4/Win (Redux version)/VR

Linux ports and other generalist programming.

Projects

• Darksiders port for Linux/Mac (Nordic Games)
• Deadfall Adventures & Painkiller Hell & Damnation ports for Linux (contracted by The Farm 51)

Generalist programmer. Started in gameplay, then took on shaders & engine. Unreal Engine 3 used throughout.

Projects

• Deadfall Adventures (2013) for Win/X360
• Painkiller Hell & Damnation (2012) for Win/X360/PS3/Linux
• Alien Fear (2010; cancelled) for Win/X360/PS3

Selected Skills

Education

Majoring in Interactive 3D Graphics. Thesis subject: Parallelization of Existing Game Logic Code (impl. 2 techniques in the Quake III codebase).

Majoring in Computer Graphics and Software. Thesis subject: High-Performance Particle Effect System (modular, retargetable back-ends, sample back-end for JIT x86/64 assembly).

Publications

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, with its rich visuals and a graphics workload somewhat uncommon for Unreal Engine 4, has been a difficult case for attaining VR perf targets. This is a story of scraping off frame render time, microsecond by microsecond.

Ever since the advent of SteamOS, interest in game development for Linux has seen an increase. This lecture aims to address some more advanced issues encountered by programmers on this platform, beyond the very basic Linux setup, and drawing from over a year and two and a half games of experience in the subject. The areas discussed will be:

2013 was the year in which Linux finally got the attention of game developers; it was also the year in which my first two Linux/SteamOS ports were released. This talk will cover the learnings of one year of porting work from a programmer's point of view: DOs and DON'Ts and issues both expected and unexpected.