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Games<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Witness – Thekla<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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I was the first programmer hired at Thekla and worked there for 10 years. My work on The Witness is one the accomplishments that I’m most proud of. I developed the engine from scratch without using any third party engines and very few support libraries. I contributed to practically every aspect of its development, but was primarily responsible of the overall rendering architecture, asset processing pipeline, tools, general infrastructure, and OSX and iOS ports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Company of Heroes – Relic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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At Relic I only worked for less than a year, but in that short period I developed a special effects engine to render particles, explosions, and other effects, based on the venerable Homeworld 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I’ve worked on at least 4 additional games and many other personal projects that were never released. Failures don’t get much recognition, but they offer valuable lessons and are paving stones to success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texture Processing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My interest in DXT compression started with the search for an unencumbered compression algorithm in order to open source the popular NVIDIA Texture Tools<\/a>. Around that time Simon Brown published the first version of squish. I adopted his implementation, contributed many improvements, and ported it to the GPU using CUDA. Recently I released this compressor as a standalone single header library (ICBC)<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While at NVIDIA I also had the honor to collaborate with Jan Paul van Waveren on the research of real-time DXT compression algorithms. We published our results in these two papers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n