Jake Rose

Indie Horror Project

unannounced

Gameplay Engineer [Contract]

Contract role working for a known designer, signed with a publishing company in the greenlight phase. Small team of contributors currently.

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Persona Platform (Bella Bot)

Persona AI (Acquired by Luma AI)

Working with industry veterans on a cutting edge AI Avatar. Cutting edge rapid AI state navigation with cutting edge Unreal rendering tech all streamed to a phone.

Unreal DevOps Engineer

Working on Avatar Client, AI model integration, pixel streaming, networking systems, devops + automation, UI, audio processing, and bugfixing.
Helped lead company toward acquisition by Luma AI.

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Alien: Rogue Incursion

Game Awards | VR Game of the Year Nominee

Survios

Alien: Rogue Incursion is a brand-new single-player action-horror VR game that immerses players in the world of Alien

Gameplay Engineer

Rejoined team through early production to the game going gold. Added pause world system, worked on quest systems, VO/Audio systems, gameplay objects/interactables, adaptive trigger support, and fixing large bugs.

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Cancelled FPS Title

Deviation Games

Sci-Fi Multiplayer FPS with AAA quality comparable to Call of Duty. Led by ex-Treyarch leadership. In partnership with PlayStation.

Gameplay Engineer

Worked on the weapons and player mechanics team during our CCC hardening up to vertical slice with our pod carrying a large amount of production momentum. Prior to that worked on metagame UI systems, as well as R&D enemy AI technology.

I went down with the ship.

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Creed: Rise To Glory
Championship Edition

Quest Store Top Seller

Survios

A port of one of the most played VR games of all time.
Now on Quest 2/3 and PSVR2.

Associate Software Engineer

Ported original game from heavily modified UE4 to UE5, including switching physics engines. Worked on updated statistics system.

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Alien: Rogue Incursion

Game Awards | VR Game of the Year Nominee

Survios

Associate Software Engineer

Worked in pre-production on foundation VR Interaction systems such as hand magnetism, hand animations, grab points, aim-assist, and player/npc synced animations; all made it in game. Got switched onto the Creed Championship engine upgrade.

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Junkpunk Arena

Champlain College

Create the robot of destruction you have been dreaming about, then throw it in the destruction arena. Build it up, Tear it down!

Lead Engineer / Network Engineer

Made game network stable from it being non-networked as we entered production, Managed three other programmers while maintaining our netcode stability and overall handling large chunks of gameplay implementation. Handled Steamworks webpage and uploading game using SteamTools.

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Five Finger Gunslinger

Champlain College

A third-person, online, arena-battle game where players compete against their friends to become the most popular kid in the west. Battle evil cactus-bandits and pelt your opponents with water balloons as you struggle for suburban supremacy!

Lead Engineer / Network Engineer

Ensured that we had very consistent and stable netcode as well as working on much of the gameplay and core systems. One of two engineers, acted as Lead. Handled Steamworks webpage and uploading game using SteamTools.

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bytejake storefront

bytejake llc

Self launch of my new company! Full self-made storefront option with a focus on portability, being lightweight, and ensuring user experience and safety. Made to support the launch of my new app for sound designers and music producers, samplore.
Visit bytejake.com to check out more!

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samplore

bytejake llc

a new way to organize and search your sample library.

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daplore

bytejake llc

the digital audio project explorer.
supports all the major daws, gives a nice breakdown of each project and various audio track names to help dig through large project stacks easier.

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Eclipse OS

open source, clean code for addressable led patterns

A lighting framework to bring a shader designer ecosystem into microcontrollers using a keyframe and generator based system design. Iterated and expanded code while developing devices for multiple events.

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Personal Website

Yes... this site. A modularly built, data driven website that uses static site generation to allow me to keep this page updated consistently with minimal work from myself.

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Skyscraper

A custom zombies map for Black Ops 3 Zombies.
Skyscraper was a three-month project using Radiant, the Call of Duty Development Tools.
With over 500 downloads and zero advertising, I say it was a successful first map release!

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The Jacket v2

The full vision of Eclipse OS

An upgraded jacket for Neotropolis. A significant upgrade to the library to allow the patterns to be 2D mapped and finish the Eclipse OS library.

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The Pendant

The hardware side of Eclipse OS v1

A generalist device used on multiple cosplay events. A centralized device with simple IO to allow easy navigation of a pattern state machine.
[ The Staff, The Jacket v1 ]

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The Scanner

An escape room experience, completely portable

A homebrew digital scavenger hunt game made to work at an outdoor camping trip. Modular gameplay system for future events and generalized compatibility. A great detail on creating a seamless LED sequence for a dynamically and uniquely themed scanning state machine.

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The Totem

A lighting structure designed to be a beacon for friends at large festivals and events. Created with WS2812B and written in C++. Seamless palette blending/cycling. 8+hr battery. Lasted four events.

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The Window

A lighting exhibit connected to SignalRGB. 2D led patterns with dynamic effects.

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