Official website: www.crowfall.com

Link to Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crowfall/crowfall-throne-war-pc-mmo

Crowfall is an MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) developed by ArtCraft Entertainment. Crowfall is a PVP (Player versus Player) open-world game described as a “Throne War Simulator”. ArtCraft Entertainment ran a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign which ended March 26th, 2015.

I joined ArtCraft in the summer of 2016 as a Gameplay Programmer intern. I was offered a full-time position at the end of the internship and worked as a Software Engineer until Summer 2020.

Here were some of my responsibilities at ACE:

  • Wrote client and server components for new gameplay systems in C#/Node JS
  • Created tools to improve art and animator workflow, wrote data exporters and object inspectors
  • Implemented UIs for navigation and menu systems
  • Implemented a web socket based chat system, integrated 3rd party solutions and worked on social features
  • Worked on Metrics reporting for game events
  • Provided support for audio feature requests
  • Added new features to the AI system and prototyped new NPCs with designers
  • Fixed bugs related to powers, VFX and gameplay systems
  • Implemented player HUD improvements