PS3

This was the first game that I professionally contributed to as a games developer. I remember reading the PlayStation 2 reference documents. It describes the PlayStation 2 developer boxes as “A Playstation on steriods”. Paraphrasing of course. The PlayStation 2 developer boxes were huge compared to the one that fit under the tele. I learnt a few things about variable constraints and font rendering. Always apply upper and lower bounds checking when incrementing or decrementing variables Pre-render lots of text to a texture instead of rendering every glyph Anyway, this game never got to see the light of day....

Footbal games My Football Club (PC) My Football Club, GoFC (PSP) This Is Football Manager (Zeus) Mobile games QuizQuizQuiz, QQQ Xmas, Quiz Plus (PC, iOS, Android, Mac?) Updates, ports, expansions and bug fixes. Tic Toc Body Pop (iOS, Android, PC) Achievements… International Cricket Captain 2011 (iOS, Mac) Once, I released this to the app store and it would crash immediately. Luckily I was able to fix the issue and have it released while out for lunch with the team....

I think this was a port from the original Xbox. How it was architected was interesting; DLLs used as separate modules. This caused some issues as the DLLs automatically clears out static variables which wasn’t evident when reading the original source code. I remember implementing 3d audio positioning by creating a sound cone. It wasn’t a feature for the Playstation 3. A sound cone was needed so that the volume could decrease when it was around the player but not when it was in front....