Nigel Morgan

Current

• Programmer at United Front Games

Past

• Senior Software Engineer (Lead) at Backbone Entertainment
• Game Developer (Lead) at RainJester Entertainment Inc., Canada
• Game Developer at Magellan Interactive, Canada

see less...

Education

• AuldHouse Computer Services
• University of Waikato

Recommended

3 people have recommended Nigel

Connections

87 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website

Nigel Morgan’s Summary

Worked in the games industry for 8 years, 11 years developing software and over 4 years as a team lead, with 12 published titles.

Nigel Morgan’s Specialties:

C/C++, GBA/DS, Brew, Lead, PC, PS2, Java

Nigel Morgan’s Experience

• Programmer

  United Front Games

  (Partnership; Computer Games industry)

  September 2009 — Present (4 months)

• Senior Software Engineer (Lead)

  Backbone Entertainment

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  February 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 8 months)

  Lead two mid size programming teams though the full development cycle.
  
  Skills: VC++, DS, Wii, PS2, Xbox360, Perforce, Leadership, frame work design & architecture, Tool & Pipeline/Build process development, AI, Task estimation.
  
  Published Titles: Shadow born (Shelved at Beta, NGage), Monster Lab (DS & Wii), Diner Dash (XBLA, PS3)
  
  Duties:
  • Pre-production work, including game engine assessments & selection, game requirements, TDD construction (programming/tools/pipeline etc).
  • Designed & oversaw construction on a cross platform database, tools & pipeline process.
  • Team lead on the largest Nokia cell phone title ever developed, involving tamagotchi style creatures interacting with the NGage (Faking incoming text messages, Alarms & other interesting features!).
  • Lead Developer duties, including working with managers & clients, accurate task estimation, assignment & follow up.
  • Designed & implemented the resource pipeline & automated build process. Proactively insured smooth development with minimal broken builds.
  • Designed & built an automatic testing system for QA.

• Game Developer (Lead)

  RainJester Entertainment Inc., Canada

  (Computer Games industry)

  March 2004 — December 2004 (10 months)

  Designed, implemented and tested wireless cell phone games under brew & Java platforms for international markets.
  
  Skills: VC/VC++, Java, Brew, Source Safe, Leadership, Game Design, Game Engine Design & Development, Tool Development, AI.
  
  Published Titles: BlueStreak 2210 (Brew), Toque GT (Brew)
  
  Duties:
  • Worked on every aspect of the game development life cycle, from concept to quality assurance, including game design.
  • Coordinated developers, management meetings, progress reports, staffing issues and other lead developer duties.
  • Wrote very efficient, compact and fast code due to the memory constraints & speed of the hardware.
  • Developed tools, including compression/archive utilities, level editors & palette managers.
  • Engine design & development, including tile maps, image scaling/rotating, palette manipulation & AI techniques (A* path finding algorithm)

• Game Developer

  Magellan Interactive, Canada

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  February 2000 — December 2003 (3 years 11 months)

  Responsible for designing and programming educational children’s games, using propriety in-house and 3rd party cross platform game engines.
  
  Skills: VC++, Java, Source Safe, PS2, GBA, Mac, Direct X, RAD Games tools (Miles, Smacker & Bink), Lithtech (3D), Renderware (3D), IET Engine Development.
  
  Published Titles: Barney On Location (PC), Disney Trivia (PC/Mac), MatchBox – Cross Town Hero’s (GBA & PS2/PC), DragonBall Z – Collectible Card Game (GBA), Clifford – Cliffords Word Carnival (PC/Mac), Scooby Doo – Case File #2 The Scary Stone Dragon (PC), Swashbucks (Web/Online), Hooked On Phonics (PC), Veggie Island (PC).
  
  Duties:
  • Designed, implemented and tested children’s games using both 2D and 3D game engines on a variety of platforms including PC, MAC, PS2 and GBA
  • Acted as the Lead Programmer on various projects while communicating and coordinating responsibilities amongst fellow developers, project managers, artists and publishers in order to ensure the timely completion of projects
  • Worked in a high-stress environment involving tight deadlines for well-known companies such as Hasbro, Nickelodeon, Nintendo and Walt Disney Interactive
  • Prepared and tested solutions to localisation issues, such as multi-byte languages, in order to provide easy and efficient after-release localisation
  • Created a traffic control system for a GTA 3 style game (MatchBox – Cross Town Hero’s), including NPC AI, intersections, spawning etc.

Nigel Morgan’s Education

• AuldHouse Computer Services

  Programming in Microsoft C++ 1995 — 1995

• University of Waikato

  BSc , Computer Science , 1992 — 1995

Additional Information

Nigel Morgan’s Websites:

• My Website

Nigel Morgan’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch