Full Sail University

Bachelor of Science Game Development

GPA: 3.79 (Valedictorian of the Class)
GPS: 101
Attendance: 100%

Winter Park, Florida

2008 – 2010

Twisted Lands: Origin (PC)

-Second game project in Alawar Stargaze, third project for the Game Industry.

-Scripted 4 game scenes, using the Stargaze Quest Editor and other internal tools.

-Scripted all the actions in those scenes and their respective mini-scenes by working closely with designers and other programmers and scripters.

Snark Busters: High Society

-Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure Game for Alawar Entertainment and Big Fish Games.

-Programmed 6 mini-games in C++, using the Stargaze Framework.

-Worked closely with designers, artists and internal testers.

Princess Isabella – A witch’s curse (iPad)

-Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure Game for Gogii Games and Big Fish Games.

-First professional project for the Game Industry.

-Worked on gameplay programming, bug fixing, and adding different types of features. Some of these included gameplay features or features for outside the game, like creating a separate version of the game (freemium) with an in-game store for upgrading the app, implementing the libraries for Big Fish Games, etc.

-Made in Objective C using an in-house engine from Beast Studios.

#1 in Adventure Games (iPad) on Jun 30, 2011
#7 in Top Games (iPad) on May 9, 2011
#8 in Top Apps (iPad) on May 8, 2011

Cosmic Mischief – Multiplayer Third Person Shooter

-Third person shooter game made by 8 programmers and 3 artists over the course of 3 and 1/2 months.

-Physics programmer: implemented 3D collisions using moving spheres and rays against a collision mesh, partitioned this mesh with a spherical BVH, and implemented the rest of the game physics and spherical geometry functions using Vectors, Matrices and Quaternions.

-Made in C++ using DirectX and Wwise sound API.

Speckt (Demo) – 3D platformer

-3D platformer game demo done by 8 programmers and 4 artists in 2 months

-Created collisions using moving sphere to triangle, implemented an AABB BVH, physics and gameplay.

– Made in C++ using DirectX and Wwise sound API

3D Pac-man

-Solo Project done as an AI research. Emulated the pac-man AI and added an A* path finding algorithm for the ghosts.

-Multi-threaded project made in C++ using the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT).

Robocode Bot

-Solo Project done as an optional assignment.

-Made in java using robocode API. Won first place in two school tournaments (single and team death match). Won “best robot” award in the AI class.

Halloween

-Solo Project done in OpenGL with shaders, multi-textured and scripted first person camera movement in C++.

Nothing Is Sacred – 2D platformer

-2D platformer done by 3 programmers in one month and a half.

-Performed the roles of Lead Programmer and Gameplay programmer by creating the game engine and implementing gameplay and physics. Made in C++ using DirectX.

Revenge of Monkey – Horizontal Shooter

-Solo Project. Created all assets, built an engine from scratch and was voted one of the top 3 games of the class.

-Made in C++ using DirectX.

To learn more about these projects, visit http://www.miguelcasillas.com/portfolio.html

Skills

C/C++

C#/XNA

Java

OpenGL

DirectX

X86 Assembly

LUA

ARM7

Linear Algebra

Physics

Calculus

3D Collisions

Native level Spanish and English speaker

Intermediate level Romanian/Moldavian and Russian speaker

Basic level French and German speaker

Software

Visual C++/C#

Eclipse

Alienbrain Source-Control

Tortoise SVN

Maya

RenderMonkey

VTune

QT Creator

MS Office

Hobbies

Making Music, visiting museums, learning languages