Jared Merritt

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ABOUT ME

Lead Programmer at Dark Age Studios

Avid programmer and games developer, I have plenty of experience in games development on a professional level. I enjoy teaching developers both basic and advanced principles of games design, programming practices or even just introducing them to a new language!

English

London (+01:00)

Joined October 2018

EXPERTISE

5 years experience

I've been using C# professionally for the last 5 years on various freelance projects and indie video games. I currently lead a team of C#...

I've been using C# professionally for the last 5 years on various freelance projects and indie video games. I currently lead a team of C# programmers and am experienced in code review for both experienced and new programmers - feel free to ask me questions!

Unity

5 years experience

My main engine of choice, I have been working in Unity for the past 5 years. Flexibility and scope allow for Unity to become a powerful t...

My main engine of choice, I have been working in Unity for the past 5 years. Flexibility and scope allow for Unity to become a powerful tool for any experienced or budding programmer. I'm eager to help, so just ask for it!

Web Development

3 years experience

Most of my experience in website development is self taught, but I can introduce basic concepts such as HTML and CSS, database integratio...

Most of my experience in website development is self taught, but I can introduce basic concepts such as HTML and CSS, database integration via PHP and MySQL and Javascript for general utility, database and display functionality.

Unreal Engine

1 year experience

I'm relatively new to Unreal Engine, and as such my tuition on this topic will be mostly built off my experience from raw C++ work using ...

I'm relatively new to Unreal Engine, and as such my tuition on this topic will be mostly built off my experience from raw C++ work using OpenGL and DirectX.

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SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

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Community Posts

DEAD BY DAYLIGHT - A GAMEPLAY ANALYSIS

Analysis of Dead by Daylight and how the developers need to evolve to maintain their playerbase.

EMPLOYMENTS

Lead Programmer

Dark Age Studios

2017-01-01-Present

As Lead Programmer at Caveman Games, I have worked on the following: - Organised and effectively run a small team of programmers - Playe...

As Lead Programmer at Caveman Games, I have worked on the following: - Organised and effectively run a small team of programmers - Player Character (animation programming, IK) - All NPC's (rigging, animation programming, IK) - Limb based damage handling - Advanced 'player-like' AI (all aspects) - General gameplay programming - Contingent's Website (WordPress and then HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

HTML/CSS

Software Engineering

HTML/CSS

Software Engineering

Software Development

3D Modeling

Skinning / rigging

AI (artificial intelligence)

PROJECTS

ContingentView Project

Dark Age Studios

2018

Contingent is a realistic historical action role-playing (ARPG) melee combat game for windows PC set in 5th Century Britain with combat m...

Contingent is a realistic historical action role-playing (ARPG) melee combat game for windows PC set in 5th Century Britain with combat mechanics similar to titles such as Mount and Blade, War of the Roses and War of the Vikings. The game aims to combine striking emotional stories chosen from a control-tower meta-game with highly immersive and intense action controlled with a 3rd person character. Intelligent group behaviour will give the player the ability to handle masses of AI units that will be used to represent large scale dark ages combat as well as playing as a single fighting unit within that group.