Jean Simonet, Developer in Rockville, MD, United States
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Jean Simonet

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Developer

Location
Rockville, MD, United States
Toptal Member Since
April 8, 2019

Jean已经在游戏和互动媒体领域工作了15年, initially in large studios and now as an independent developer. Jean是Unity开发专家，拥有从移动游戏到VR/AR再到物理设备的许多项目. 他编写奇特的着色器就像编写AI算法或设计有趣且引人入胜的益智游戏一样轻松自如.

Unity ShadersUnity3D PathfindingC++Embedded C++WindowsC#Oculus RiftArtificial Intelligence (AI)MultithreadingShadersVR Platform.NETJSONiOSGitPerforce

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Adobe Photoshop, C++, C#, Unity, Windows

The most amazing...

...thing I've created is fully deformable planet engine. 这需要一个结合了CPU、计算和几何着色器的强大架构.

Work Experience

Founder

2016 - PRESENT
Systemic Games, LLC
  • Developed a small puzzle game teaching kids electronics.
  • Built a Bluetooth-enabled playing die from scratch. This involved many disciplines, 从电子和电路板布局到c++中的固件代码，再到Unity和c#中的移动3D应用程序.
  • Created several assets for the Unity Asset Store.
Technologies: Embedded Systems, iOS, C#, C++, Unity

Senior Architect and Research Engineer

2017 - 2018
Adobe
  • 在一个未公开的研究项目中，领导了特定发动机部件的设计和开发.
Technologies: Shaders, Adobe Photoshop, C#, Unity

Contractor, Senior Game Developer

2017 - 2017
PluralSight
  • 开发了一款名为“剑与铲子”的演示游戏，旨在向用户(PluralSight是一个学习平台)介绍Unity中的专业视频游戏开发.
Technologies: C#, Unity

Contractor, UX Developer

2016 - 2016
Oculus VR
  • 探索VR的新型用户体验，包括新型触摸交互和语音识别.
Technologies: Virtual Reality (VR), C#, Unity

Contractor, Programming

2016 - 2016
Elliptic Games
  • 为游戏引擎开发类似prolog的语言和运行时. 该语言用于执行复杂的过程生成，因此还需要支持一些定量谓词. 这使得底层搜索/生成器系统相当复杂.
Technologies: Artificial Intelligence (AI), C++

Contractor, Programming

2015 - 2015
Skyborne Games
  • 为像《欧博体育app下载》这样的手机游戏开发技术和玩法组件.
Technologies: C#, Unity

Founder

2013 - 2015
Year Seventeen, LLC
  • Helped develop a game called Fireborne.
  • Wrote several assets for the Unity Asset Store, 最引人注目的是非常流行的P4Connect Unity集成.
Technologies: C#, Unity

AI and System Programmer

2005 - 2012
Bethesda Game Studios
  • Contributed to the development of Oblivion, Fallout 3, Skyrim and Fallout 4 as part of the AI and Systems group.
  • 为工作室的大型项目设计并实现了基于navmesh的导航系统, constantly-streaming worlds. Between writing tools to generate the navmesh, 处理角色在世界中未加载部分的移动, and animating movements, I handled all locomotion concerns.
  • 为引擎执行生物系统(例如《欧博体育app下载》中的蝴蝶和鱼). 这是为了创造一个完全由脚本控制的低冲击生物系统, 艺术家们可以在闲暇时定制并放置在世界上.
技术:动画，Unity3D寻径，人工智能(AI)， c++，电子游戏

Programmer

2003 - 2005
Terminal Reality
  • Shipped my first game: BloodRayne 2. I also worked on an Aeon Flux game, based on the 2005 movie.
  • 为几个游戏系统做出了贡献，很快就专攻FX编程. In fact, 我为《欧博体育app下载》重写了公司的粒子引擎，并以我在前一款游戏《欧博体育app下载》中的角色命名.
Technologies: C++, Video Games

P4Connect

I wrote P4Connect back in 2013. (Back then, I called it UnityP4.)它后来被Perforce自己慷慨地接管了, and you can now download it for free!

GPU-Accelerated Terrain Deformation

http://youtu.be/LhkyYBFkMas
这是我在游戏《欧博体育app下载》中执行的行星变形系统的简短演示. Most of the processing happens on the GPU.

Procedural Mountains

Another project related to my game Fireborne, procedural mountain generation was a very interesting exercise. Good art helps a ton, of course, 但想出一个满足我们要求的算法(在区域之间创建山墙，同时看起来不重复)真的很有趣!

Planetary Fog System

http://youtu.be/9piL9Eeoz_g
这是我为我们的游戏《欧博体育app下载》制作的行星雾系统演示. 雾半程序地变形，并使用自定义着色器来实现最终结果. The atmosphere also uses its own shader to complement the effect.

Faceted Flight

《欧博体育app下载》是我的朋友Matt Scott在The Department of Silly Stuff设计的一款vr游戏. I helped him on a few different areas of the game, mainly creating a hard-edged, 将在VR设备和多人游戏原型上运行的面状地形系统.

Fire Effect Shader

http://youtu.be/xq7U5TN72PU
A demo of the UV Remap shader I wrote for our game Fireborne. 主要效果不使用粒子或动画表(余烬和发光球)。, just a custom pixel shader.

Low Poly Terrain

http://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/terrain/low-poly-terrain-46528
Low Poly Terrain is a simple-to-use asset for generating faceted, hard-edge, low-poly terrains in Unity.

FEATURES
•从您最喜欢的生成/绘画工具导入高度和颜色地图.
• Full collision support.
•实现一个正确的多面外观，默认地形系统不能.
•动态生成和管理LOD水平，保持低多边形计数.
• Low CPU and GPU usage, taking advantage of dynamic batching.
• Place trees or other objects procedurally on your terrains.
• Ideal for high-performance environments such as VR.
• Works with PBR or legacy/custom lighting models.
• Full source and shader code included.

Back Button

http://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/back-button-50892
后退按钮在Unity中增加了对后退和下一步导航按钮的支持，并添加了全功能的历史记录和收藏夹系统.

Fireborne

《欧博体育app下载》是一款将RTS元素设置在奇幻世界中的优秀游戏. Guide the Fireborne and her people, the Yin, 在一次将他们的家园从可怕的生命形态中解放出来的旅程中.

I was able to create many cool systems for the game, a fully deformable planet, an automata-based water simulation, behavior graph AI for the characters, optimized pathfinding, 还有很多很多的着色器，用于所有的特效和游戏的独特视觉效果.

Sci-fi Adventure Game

http://youtu.be/wY9ATbe_jO8
这是一个科幻冒险游戏项目，显然受到了《欧博体育app下载》的启发. Although the project didn’t end up getting greenlit, 制作一款带有有趣摄像系统的冒险类游戏是一段有趣的时光, scripted scenes, and a nonlinear story.

Pyroclastic Donut

http://youtu.be/zgT507jkzT8
A donut-shaped pyroclastic effect.

我所做的大部分工作是修改光线投射方程来处理不同于球体的形状.

Unity BLE Plugin for Windows

http://github.com/jeansimonet/UnityBLEPluginForWindows
我通过开发一个自定义的本地插件，在Windows平台的Unity中实现了蓝牙低功耗(BLE)支持. This add-on seamlessly interfaces with the Win32 Bluetooth API, 在Unity应用程序和启用ble的设备之间实现有效的通信和数据交换.

Procedural Terrain Generation on Spherical Hex World

As part of the development of my game Fireborne, 我创造了一种有趣的程序方式来生成世界并填充它.
2002 - 2003

Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, GA

1998 - 2001

电子与计算机科学工程硕士学位

ENSEEIHT - Toulouse, France

Libraries/APIs

Standard Template Library (STL)

Tools

Visual Studio 2019, Photoshop CC, Perforce, Adobe Photoshop, Blender, Illustrator CC, Git

Frameworks

Unity, .NET

Platforms

Windows, Oculus Rift, iOS, MacOS

Languages

C#, Embedded C++, C++, JavaScript, Python

Storage

JSON

Paradigms

Data-driven Design

Other

Video Games, Unity3D Pathfinding, Navigation, Unity Shaders, Optimization, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Shaders, Multithreading, Graphics, PCB Design, VR Platform, Embedded Systems, Virtual Reality (VR), Animation

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