Hello, welcome to my website. Since late 2002/early 2003 , I've been a Computer Games Programmer in Liverpool. I worked on the PS2 version of "The Cat In The Hat" and "Stuart Little 3" . More recently I've worked on a game containing a selection of jungle animals... Parts of Buzz Junior: Jungle Party that I was responsible for: Minigames: Monkey battle, Whack-a squirrel, Splat!, Wheel running, totem pole Rewrite of EE side interface to buzz controller module to make better use of parallelism and save frametime. Prepared the demo build for OPS2 magazine. (December 2006 #77) Buzz Junior: Jungle party screenshots Jungle party official website Parts of Stuart Little 3:Big Photo Adventure that I worked on: Eyetoy support, motion detection and minigames. Texture effects (washable graffiti) Script engine for Cutscenes. Cutscene scripts. Minigames. Stuart little 3 screenshots Stuart little 3 Official website Parts of Cat In The Hat that I worked on: FMV player Polygon Clipper and environment mapping code written for the VU (Vector Unit,PS2 ) Loading screen - implemented pre-emptive threading so the existing level loading function would run during the frame time that wasn't been used for rendering the cat floating with his umbrella. The lense flare and occlusion glare. Cat In The Hat screenshots I've also dabbled in Homebrew PS2 development (not using the linux kit, using NapLink and a console 'modified' purely for the purpose of homebrew development), getting as far as loading and rendering a 3DS model of a textured face, moving an image of a boobah around the screen and audio mixing on the EE (couldn't get tool chain set up to properly compile IRX modules so wrote a mixer that ran on the vblank and plays the result as a PCM stream). I started programming in BASIC when I was seven years old. At around 14 I started programming in assembly language for the 6502 microprocessor . I've since programmed in assembly language for the 68000 (Atari ST, Amiga), ARM(Acorn Archimedes), and MIPS/VU (Playstation 2).Also Pascal (Turbo Pascal over DOS and Borland Delphi 5),C,C++, and a little Occam at college. I've been involved in internet related programming since 1999. This has included use of HTML, javascript, PHP, MySQL, ActiveX, VRML, C. I subscribe to developer newsletters from Nokia, Vodaphone and Ericsson. My other website SouthportNews.com has been providing SMS and location based services to members of the site since October 2001

The books on my bookshelf: Game Architecture and design C++ For Game Programmers Creating Games in C++ 3D Game Programming with DirectX 9.0 The CG Tutorial Thge Complete Effect and HLSL Guide RealTime Rendering, SE Moller/Haines Black Art of 3D game programming, LaMothe Direct3D Professional Reference, Stein,Bowman & Pierce Programmers guide to PC &PS/2 Video Systems, R.Wilton Programming the 80386, Crawford & Gelsinger Inside WAP, P.Niskanen Building Professional websites with the right tools, J.Greenberg & J.R.Lakeland Teach yourself Web publishing with HTML 4 in 21 days, L.Lemay Teach yourself Java in Cafe in 21 days, Joshi, Lemay & Perkins How to program Java, P.Coffee Mastering Java with Visual J++, T.Swan Suse Linux 7.0 the Handbook Red Hat Linux unleashed, D.Pitts,B.Ball Using Caldera OpenLinux The Joy of Work, S.Adams, Every Issue of OPS2 magazine since #30 Feb 2003

Computers I've had Commodore Plus/4 Commodore Vic-20 Commodore PET 2001 (2 of them) Dragon32 BBC Micro Model B Atari ST Amiga A PC

* "Eyetoy" refers to the "EyeToy USB Camera for Playstation 2"