Jakob Schmid Portfolio

From 2008 and forward I have been lead programmer on several projects at Tonic Games. I am currently leading a small team of programmers in Cairo during an outsourcing project with the Egyptian company MegaMedia. Tonic Games largest current project is Musica, a music learning game implemented in the Unity game engine.

• Free Roaming:
  • Third-person rail camera
  • World may be interactively changed from dark and withered to green and lush
• Several puzzles:
  • A rhythm puzzle was designed and implemented by me
  • A score puzzle was designed by me
• Challenges:
  • The complete game architecture was designed and almost all of it implemented by me in C#. (The Unity C# scripts consisted of over 14000 lines of code.)
  • Writing several Cg shaders, including a terrain shader and a shader, which extends a texture-change wave from a single point
  • A high-performance Unity Midi/sound-plugin was designed and implemented by me in C++
  • Pathfinding AI

At 2009-04-26, I did a talk on Shorouk Academy about getting started with game development. The slides are here.

During my employment at now defunct Pollux Gamelabs, I mainly worked on a satirical RTS game prototype with the working title 'Spin Wars'. My main working areas were game logic and graphics.

• Game logic:
• Code structure revision
• Adding new design features and changes in game rules
• Graphics:
• Implementation of new features, e.g. capture flags, sheep
• Graphics concept ideas, e.g. player avatars, building animations

At Pollux Gamelabs, I also worked on the sci-fi 4X title 'Lost Empire: Immortals', which was released in 2008. I assumed the role of music programmer, music composer and sound designer.

• Music and sound programming:
• Randomized replay routine to ensure ever-changing ingame music
• Seamless fades between different parts of the game, e.g. starmap and battle view
• Music:
• Spacy 80's synth main theme
• Atmospheric ingame music
• Spooky battle view ambient drones
• Catchy nu skool breaks track for ingame trailer
• Cinematic music for storyline trailer
• Sound Design:
• Battle view sounds (weapon sounds, engine roars, and explosions)
• UI sounds

Simple molecular dynamics simulation written in Ruby using OpenGL

Raytracer written in C++ with PNG or ascii art output