Alex Forsythe

Hi, I'm Alex Forsythe. Here's some stuff I've done.

Personal Projects

• Unreal Videos - a series of free videos about programming in Unreal Engine.
• Rosewood, a.k.a. "Scrabble FPS" - mashup of a multiplayer FPS and a tile-based word game. Incomplete; just a fun diversion to provide fodder for potential tutorials... and an excuse to implement a C library that solves Scrabble boards.

Commercial Projects

• Alien: Descent VR (Outlets at Orange, 2018) - UE4 game programming, LBE operations (described below)
• Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Multiplatform, 2016) - Tools development, CI and build automation, developer support
• Benno's Great Race (Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, 2016) - UE4 game programming
• Justice League: Battle for Metropolis (Six Flags, 2015) - UE4 game programming, ride system integration, perspective shift
• Monkey King (Wanda Wuhan Movie Park, 2014) - UE4 game programming, ride system integration
• iYoga Premium (iOS, 2012) - Extensive production pipeline automation for animation, compositing, and rendering
• The Amazing Spider-Man (Multiplatform, 2012) - Maya / MotionBuilder tools for animation pipeline
• The Black Eyed Peas Experience (Xbox 360, 2011) - In-engine VFX and cinematics work, automation of offline rendering

Unreleased Work

I've also worked on several cancelled and unannounced projects – how mysterious!

Outside of my direct contributions to individual projects, I've also done a good bit of R&D on internal tools. In recent years, my focus has been on backend systems for location-based entertainment: supporting the installation, operation, and maintenance of site-based multiplayer VR games, with tools and services to facilitate:

• generating, publishing, and installing game builds
• deploying new game builds across multiple Windows and Android devices
• remotely launching and monitoring output from running game processes
• monitoring and collecting device health metrics
• managing game sessions and groups of players
• tracking scores and displaying post-game rankings
• integration of optical motion capture systems for tracking and IK
• 1:1 alignment of tracking space to virtual environment
• use of AR markers to inject ground truth into inside-out tracking
• “pulsing,” i.e. controlling the flow of overlapping groups of guests through a shared space
• integration with third-party haptic controllers
• automated control of external hardware: fans, heaters, transducers, motorized doors
• testing and iteration in multiple contexts: on-site with full tracking, vs. in-HMD, vs. in-editor; single-player vs. multiplayer
• profiling and optimization, including on mobile VR

Several years back, in the days long before Live Link, I also worked on some early virtual production tools, including a camera capture system and a framework for streaming real-time animation data from MotionBuilder to UDK.

Old College Projects

• Vestige - Senior team project (ITGM Studio II); a UDK first-person puzzle game
• Shotgun Spartacus - Senior solo project (ITGM Studio I); a UDK single-player FPS level
• You Can't Eat Your Cake and Have it Too - Personal project, for the SA GameDev V competition
• Pirate Raymond and the Great Fornelius - UDK single-player FPS level with an extremely serious story

Hobbies

• Owning a dog
• Photographing the dog
• Favorite Games: Daggerfall, System Shock 2, Deus Ex, X-COM, Dark Souls