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Hey gamedev Twitter, tell me about your job/role! I'm teaching a class in the near future about game industry roles (in big and small studios) and I want to show students what people do in their own words RTs appreciated!

Hey! I started as a gameplay programmer at EA Tiburon, on Superman Returns. We used C++. After it shipped, I was moved onto the internal "ION" UI team, which authored UI using Adobe Flash and ActionScript 2.0, for consumption by our internal Flash-alike UI library, APT. (1/?)

After helping ship NCAA '08 and Tiger Woods PGA Tour '08, I left in late 2007, and signed on at Vicarious Visions, an Activision subsidiary, as apparently being a Guitar Hero fan - having written a 2D engine for GH1+2's note tracks in my spare time - was interesting. (2/?)

At VV, I did gameplay, UI, and graphics coding on the Wii versions of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, World Tour, 5, Warriors of Rock, and Band Hero. I also worked on the cancelled DJ Hero 3DS, and did remote work for FreeStyleGames optimizing DJ Hero 2 on the Wii. (3/?)

After what I call the "Great 'Hero' Layoff of 2011", when ATVI laid off 500 people across the entire publisher, and a third of the staff at VV, I spent a year trying to make an indie company work with my fellow laid-off friends. (4/?)

We shipped one Xbox Live Indie Games title (using C# and XNA), and we had one more planned and working, but the garbage collector performance was too poor to reasonably ship it. We also shipped a companion app for a board game using Objective-C, on iOS. (5/?)

During that time, I also taught myself Java in order to mod Minecraft, a game which I was rather enthusiastic about, and still am. In early 2012, our collective savings ran out, so I took a position as a senior graphics programmer at Autodesk Scaleform. (6/?)

There, I used C++ with a smattering of Objective-C, as I primarily helped maintain the console and iOS frontends, as well as fixing core rendering bugs. However, in mid-2013 Mojang came knocking, and so I uprooted my life in the US and moved to Sweden to work for them. (7/?)