Gavin Whitlock

Work History

• Technical Director

  NetEase Montreal

  July 2022 - Present
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  Lead Programmer (CPI)

  Ubisoft

  October 2013 - July 2022
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  Lead Programmer (Online Multiplayer)

  Ubisoft

  March 2012 - October 2013

  Lead of online and network area.
  Line management 7 people
  Development steering, recruitment, scheduling, cross-studio collaboration
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  Principal Programmer

  Codemasters

  March 2008 - October 2011

  Bodycount (PS3, Xbox360) : Metacritic (53)
  Gameplay Lead: Line Managing 9 programmers; Recruitment; Appraisals etc.
  Build: Code publish system; Perforce branching strategy and management
  Gameplay: Gameplay rule system, Tutorials, Missile guidance system, Camera bob, Mini-map, Breakable object serialisation.
  Animation tool for twin video capture during mo-cap.
  Physics: Gameplay component; Ray-cast framework.
  Five-O (working title) (PS3, Xbox360, PC)
  Physics and animation group lead.
  Detailed planning and prototyping.

  
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  Programmer

  Electronic Arts

  July 2003 - March 2008

  Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix (PS2, PS3, Xbox360, Wii) : Metacritic (68)
  Head of animation tech.
  Two-bone foot and arm IK system –integrated to Havok and rewritten from scratch.
  Lip-syncing pipeline and in-game systems.
  Prototype gesture recognition.
  Prototype combat system.
  Harry Potter Goblet of Fire (PS2, Xbox, NGC) : Metacritic (68)
  Steering and threat avoidance system.
  Design of AI, piloting, navigation, agent and shot systems.
  Mentoring and assesment of graduate recruits, interviewing potential employees.
  Miscellaneous game systems support.
  Code and memory optimisation, refactoring sections of PoA codebase to Renderware and Renderware Studio.
  Collaboration on coding standards.
  In-game interface to Havok.
  Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban (PS2, Xbox, NGC) : Metacritic (70)
  Navigation solution.
  Babble Manager (for in-game speech).
  Upgrade of duelling system.
  Maintainance of collision system.

• Senior Programmer

  Rage Bristol

  April 1999 - February 2003

  Team SAS (XBox) : IGN Article, Jan 2003 - 5 page Article in Official XBox Magazine
  Enemy and team AI, scripting, animation interface.
  Game editor – including visual scripting and logic representation.
  In-game cameras including cut-scene scripting.
  Memory management layer.
  Main game loop.
  Weapons, including aiming and recoil.
  Player controls.
  B17-2 The Mighty Eighth (PC) : GameSpy Review (90), Metacritic (82)
  Multiple engine management simulation with governing AI.
  3D Aircraft cockpits – instrumentation, human interface, simulated pilot head-movement, and aircraft start-up sequences.
  External aircraft details (flaps, slats, ailerons, onions etc)

• Senior Programmer

  Dangerous Games

  2003 - 2003

  Team SAS (XBox) : IGN Article, Jan 2003 - 5 page Article in Official XBox Magazine
  Continuing enemy AI and visual scripting.
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  Lead Programmer

  Psygnosis

  February 1995 - March 1999

  G-Police Weapons of Justice (PS1) : IGN Review (8.5), Absolute PlayStation (88)
  Lead programmer.
  Programming schedules and complete game design.
  Co-ordination and assignment of programming team.
  Visual effects programming (missiles, explosions etc).
  Mission editor – compiled mission scripting.
  Overlay handling and resource management.
  G-Police (PS1 / PC) : IGN Review (8.0), Absolute PlayStation (9/10)
  Design, planning and scheduling of complete non-rendering area of game. Mission scripting and traffic simulation.
  Enemy flight and navigation AI.
  Assault Rigs (PS1 / PC) : IGN Review (6.0)
  Potentially Visible Sets, 3D Front-End Design and Code (Memory Cards etc). Profiler interface.
  Assault Rigs Jpn (PS1) :
  Localisation for Japanese sku.