Robert Percival

Work History

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  Senior Programmer

  Sledgehammer Games

  August 2016 - Present

  Foster City, CA

  Call of Duty: WWII
  Singleplayer gameplay
  Especially vehicle implementations including:
  • First person tank
  • NPC tanks with cutscene<->gameplay transition
  • First person jeep driving and mounted combat
  • Train combat
  Also:
  • Support for rapid level iteration
  • Final pass scripting optimizations
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  Physics Programmer

  Rockstar Games

  August 2008 - July 2015

  Unannounced R&D:
  • Rapid iteration and design collaboration
  
  Grand Theft Auto 5:
  • Go to resource for physics engine knowledge
  • Champion of design goals within physics team
  • Technical guidance for scripters, tech art, and gameplay as well as engine coders
  • Involvement or lead in code and design interviews
  
  Max Payne 3:
  • Owner of massive ongoing codebase integration
  -- Coordination with physically separated teams
  -- Understand and communicate changing priorities and technology trajectories
  
  Red Dead Redemption:
  • Ownership of widely used script and spawning search feature
  -- R&D with early adopters
  -- Collaboration with outside teams
  -- Proactively pitched capabilities to new users
  • Developed dynamic loading for streaming LODed breakables
  • Ownership of breakable, weapon, and simple ragdoll tuning

  

  

  

  
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  Gameplay Programmer

  Insomniac Games

  2007 - 2007

  Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction.
  • Developed a support mindset
  • Picked up and ran with other's code, polishing to shippable quality
  • Reached outside department collaborate on added value