Curriculum Vitae
My name is Anton Le Prevost-Smith. I'm a software engineer and game programmer with 3 years of industry experience working on "Flintlock:The Siege of Dawn" at A44 Games. I also have a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering (Game Programming) from Media Design School.
I love working with other people to solve problems and make some pretty cool things - such as games!
I'm experienced in using C++, Unreal Engine, and Unity. I also have experience programming graphics, physics, networking, multithreading and AI projects.
This is my portfolio for some of the programming and game development work I have done during my degree.
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/antonlps
Flintlock is the best work of my career as a software engineer and game programmer thus far. I have worked on it for 3 years under exceptional expertise and have contributed significantly to the project. (If you are a recruiter you are welcome to ask about the details of my involvement in this project as I can share them in private)
In this game the player embarks out on a hunting expedition and aims to clear a challenging test called the Hunter Trials.
It is being created by Overdew, a team of 5 people (4 artists, 1 programmer - me) who are creating this game in their final-year game production class at Media Design School. We started working on this game in December 2020 and finished our gold build in July 2021.
I am the main programmer for the game but Nick (who is our tech-artist/unreal-generalist) has also been mainly working on Gameplay functionality and implementation. We have a Technical Design Document which details some of the technical systems we have for our game.
Our game currently features:
• Fast paced interactive combat.
• 3 different types of weapons, each with 4 upgrades.
• Per trial upgrades bought through a shop.
• Permament player upgrades.
• Many different mobs.
• 3 Bosses.
• 12 Levels/Areas.
All features / techniques showcased are:
• Procedural terrain generation by using noise to generate a 4K heightmap texture with CPU multi-threading (at load time).
• Dynamic terrain level of detail using a tessellation shader that samples new height points from the 4k heightmap texture.
• Varying grass level of detail on the terrain using the tesselation shader + geometry shader.
• Particle system that can render millions of particles using compute shaders.
• Mouse picking and 3D vector collision for objects (Spheres, Cubes, Terrain).
The program can be configured to use C++ CPU Multi-threading or GPU fragment shaders using the OpenGL graphics API.
This can be seen in a video here: Mandlebrot Fractal video.
Radiant shores is a Pre-Alpha wave defense game created in Unreal Engine.
The game is about stopping pirate chickens from attacking your settlement, you can use cannons for defense and the platforms/jump-pads to traverse water. This game was made by Team Radiance - A collection of 3 artists and 3 programmers from Media Design School.
One Page Press Document of Radiant Shores - Details an overview of the game and the members in the team.
For this game I worked on the platform highlight and placement system that allows us to place platforms and cannons in the world, I also worked on the functionality for the autonomous cannons, and general tasks such as bug fixing, UI and gameplay.
Noir is a 2.5D platforming game created in Unreal Engine.
You play as a soul trying to pass on into the after life. You must stay within the light to not fade into darkness. Platform your way through a castle full of trials to be able to pass on into the afterlife. This game was made by Team Radiance - A collection of 3 artists and 3 programmers from Media Design School.
One Page Press Document of Noir - Details an overview of the game and the members in the team.
For this game I worked on the cat and its light based health system, the double jump, and other general work such as bug fixing, level design, and particle effects.
I collaborated in a team of 6 people to develop 4 different 1 week long game prototypes as well as, 3 different 2 week long game prototypes. I was one of the two lead programmers for all prototypes, as well as a designer. My design work was mainly towards game ideas and mechanics, and my programming work was mainly towards implementation of game mechanics and other general developement tasks such as code refactoring, bug fixing etc.
• Noir: Detailed Above (also worked on for another 4 weeks in a Mini-Production stage).
• Muchicken: A 3D golf game that required the player to swich the seasons of the weather to clear the path of the ball.
• Mu: A 3D, platforming game where the player uses a grappling hook to swing across the level to the goal.
• Radiant Shores: Detailed Above (also worked on for another 4 weeks in a Mini-Production stage).
• SousChef: 3D monster hunter game with simple combat, this game is about a chef that hunts monster vegetables to cook.
• Beastiary: A 3D Cooking/potion-brewing game about experimenting with monster ingredients to discover potion recipes.
• Robot Rush: A 3D party combat/racing game, where players have unique constantly changing abilities that mess with other players.