Andrew Aye



    I am currently working at Obsidian Entertainment as lead technical engineer in the core technology group. My duties are fairly diverse and focus on engine design and implementation. I am involved with the game teams for general discussion, and at times for fire-fighting and optimization. I helped out the NWN2 team for the last eight months of production to get the game ready for shipping. While I did perform many fire fighting tasks, my focus was on getting the walk mesh, and the rendering time into a shipping state. Previously, I have worked at Terminal Reality (collision and physics), and Sunstorm Entertainment (engine). Shipping games that I've worked on include Neverwinter Nights 2, Aeon Flux, and Bloodrayne 2. Technology that I built was used in Spy Hunter 3, and in Airport Tycoon 2. In terms of low budget/arcade titles, there were a couple that I worked on for Real Arcade, versions of breakout, mahjong and a pointifex clone (bridge builder). In addition to the above, I spent a year free lancing, and had a few short-term jobs through out university (co-op program) and during high school. I took my undergraduate degrees at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
    My career focus has been on engine technologies. I have spent over nine years working in that area and I am looking forward to taking on new challenges, particularly in the application of physic technologies to the generation of render content. I have personal interests in programmatic animation, hair and cloth animation and rendering.

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    My pet programming project is on the left, what I call the Talina Gaming System.  Started in 2002 I have started to post parts of it as I pretty-print it. My primary focus right now is pushing out a new collision library.  I have personal issues with most of the publicly available collision systems available on the web and hope to fill in a few gaps that currently exist.  Its a slow process, so patience will be required.