Tech Programmer at Raven Software
Madison, Wisconsin Area
- Current
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- Tech Programmer at Raven Software
- Past
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- Programmer at Tales 2 -> Hammerhead Ltd
- Programmer at Heartland Enterprises Ltd
- Programmer at Interactive Technologies (UK) Ltd
- Programmer / Sole Trader at Tech Noir
- Programmer at Linel AG
- Programmer at M.C.Lothlorien Ltd -> Tudor World
- Programmer at Software Creations Ltd
- Programmer at A&F Software -> Icon Design Ltd
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- Industry
- Computer Games
Ste Cork’s Summary
Over 23 years in commercial games programming. Have written games on the 8-bit machines like ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Tatung Einstein, MSX family, worked with the 16-bit ones like Amiga and Atari ST when doing PC ports from them back in the '80s, then onto consoles and/or support tools for them up to present day.
Experienced with either writing entire games myself, working as part of a team, or being completely outside the game coding by working on tools and utilities ( as at present ). Have developed with Quake & Unreal engines. Lived / worked in UK, Switzerland and US.
Just don't ask me to draw anything...
Ste Cork’s Specialties:
Z80, 6502, 68000, x86 ( plus extensions ), C/C++ ( +MFC & STL ), distributed background asset-building, ingame asian-language support, Perl, PHP, HTML/CSS and SQL.
Almost all my time nowdays is on asset-building and utilities, I haven't done gameplay coding for years now.
Ste Cork’s Experience
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Tech Programmer
Raven Software
(Public Company; ATVI; Computer Games industry)
November 1998 — Present (11 years 1 month)
Finally, a large / stable / successful company for a change ;-)
Worked on:
Wolfenstein (2009)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Uncaged) (2009)
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (2006), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Quake 4 (2005), Activision Publishing, Inc.
X-Men: Legends II - Rise of Apocalypse (2005), Activision Publishing, Inc.
X-Men: Legends (2004), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Call of Duty (2003), Activision Publishing, Inc. ( special-thanks-to for util work )
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy (2003), LucasArts
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix (2002), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast (2002), LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC
Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force Expansion Pack (2001), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Soldier of Fortune (2000), Activision, Inc.
Soldier of Fortune (Gold Edition) (2000), Activision Publishing, Inc.
Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force (2000), Activision Publishing, Inc. -
Programmer
Tales 2 -> Hammerhead Ltd
(Computer Games industry)
June 1997 — October 1998 (1 year 5 months)
Offshoot company formed by ex Traveller's Tales people, renamed itself to Hammerhead Ltd after a few months.
This was the first company I'd worked at as a team-programmer, not just doing the whole game myself as in the earlier days
Programmer on "Shadow Master" ( Psygnosis, PC & Playstation 1 )
Plus I wrote various inhouse tools/ editors for "Quake 2" ( Activision, Playstation 1 ) -
Programmer
Heartland Enterprises Ltd
(Computer Games industry)
November 1996 — May 1997 (7 months)
Another crappy little UK development house with less than a dozen people. Was working on a game entitled "Of Light And Darkness" for Interplay when it all collapsed. Wages owed. Waste of time. Final game made by another team and was nothing like ours.
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Programmer
Interactive Technologies (UK) Ltd
(Computer Games industry)
January 1996 — October 1996 (10 months)
This company was a complete joke. About 6 employees, wages problems, and a paranoid manager that we eventually took to court ;-)Wrote a German-only soccer-manager game called 'Der Coach', publisher unknown ( if anyone even bothered ), plus started an RTS prototype before the company collapsed.
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Programmer / Sole Trader
Tech Noir
(Computer Games industry)
January 1990 — January 1994 (4 years 1 month)
Just me working from home for a few years, doing ST/Amiga conversions to the PC. Sole programmer on:
Game, Publisher, Machine:
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Obitus, Psygnosis, PC
OverKill, Epic Megagames, PC ( Own IP )
Armour-Geddon, Psygnosis, PC
Last Action Hero, Psygnosis, PC
Stable Masters, ESP Software, PC ( horse-racing section only ) -
Programmer
Linel AG
(Computer Games industry)
March 1989 — October 1989 (8 months)
Spent 6 months or so in Switzerland writing this. Learnt enough German to scrape by ;-)
Sole programmer on:
Game, Publisher, Machine:
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NeverEndingStory II, Merit Software, PC -
Programmer
M.C.Lothlorien Ltd -> Tudor World
(Computer Games industry)
January 1988 — February 1989 (1 year 2 months)
( Company changed names )
Sole programmer on:
Game, Publisher, Machine:
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Psycho Pigs UXB, US Gold, MSX
Nebulus / Tower Toppler, Hewson Consultants, PC
Xenon 1, Melbourne House, PC
Never Mind, Psygnosis, PC
Chuckie Egg, Pick and Choose, PC
Terrorpods, Psyclapse, MSX ( Ported from someone else's ZX spectrum version )
Additional games written at home with employers' knowledge / consent:
Deadzone, Alternative Software, ZX Spectrum
Deadzone, Taurus Computing, Tatung Einstein
Starbase, Taurus Computing, Tatung Einstein
Canyon Warrior, Virgin Mastertronic, ZX Spectrum -
Programmer
Software Creations Ltd
(Computer Games industry)
May 1987 — January 1988 (9 months)
Sole programmer on:
Game, Publisher, Machine:
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Psycho Pigs UXB, US Gold, ZX Spectrum
Star Paws, Software Projects, ZX Spectrum -
Programmer
A&F Software -> Icon Design Ltd
(Computer Games industry)
April 1986 — April 1987 (1 year 1 month)
( Company changed names )
Programmer / sole coder on:
Game, Publisher, Machine:
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Wibstars, A&F, ZX Spectrum
Colony, Mastertronic, ZX Spectrum
Rescue, Mastertronic, ZX Spectrum (home project)
Sector 90, Argus Press, ZX Spectrum
Elephant Polo, Argus Press, ZX Spectrum
Additional Information
Ste Cork’s Groups:
Activision
Ste Cork’s Contact Settings
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