Author: James Munro

Publications

You can find a list of my recent publications below. I look forward to working on further exciting research in the field of games programming and technology in the future with the aim of attending more games-specific conferences.

Papers-in-progress

  • I am working on a journal article with an extended set of results from my MSc.

Published Papers

  • James Munro and Patrick Dickinson. Real-time Load Balancing of an Interactive Multiplayer Game Server. Proceedings of GAMEON 2010. Leicester, United Kingdom. November 2010.
  • James Munro, Andrea Capiluppi and Cornelia Boldyreff. Architectural Studies of the Quake Family of Games Engines. Proceedings of The First International IEEE Consumer Electronics Society’s Games Innovations Conference 2009 (ICE-GIC 09). Imperial College, London. August 2009.
  • Cornelia Boldyreff, Andrea Capiluppi, Thomas Knowles and James Munro. Undergraduate Research Opportunities in OSS. Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Open Source Systems. Skövde, Sweden. June 2009.

Magazines

  • The UROS CODEX project was featured in the British Computer Society ITNOW magazine (January 2009). Article extract.
  • iRis AG was featured in the University of Lincoln’s Bullet Magazine. The article featured an interview with me and a positive review of the game itself (7/10).

Curriculum Vitae

A brief web-formatted version of my resume is available on this page. A more thorough/complete version will soon be available for download in a number of different formats. The web version visible on this page contains elements relevant only to game development.

Education

  • Currently studying MSc Computer Science by Research (focus: parallelism in game engines).
  • Attended University of Lincoln (2006-2009) and received a First-Class Honours BSc in Games Computing.
  • Attended Trinity High School and achieved 5 A-Levels.

Notable Achievements

  • Awarded Faculty Prize for Outstanding Achievement in the Department of Computing and Informatics in recognition of academic achievement at the University of Lincoln.
  • Awarded The British Computer Society Prize (University of Lincoln) for Highest Mark on Final Year Project involving a Substantive Software Implementation for undergraduate dissertation grade.

Relevant Experience

I am now working as a freelance developer for the iOS platform (October 2010 – present):

  • Providing a design and development service of iOS applications.
  • Developing applications to client’s specification/requirements.
  • Working individually on a part-time basis.
  • My current client is Blueprint: Film.

I helped out as co-producer (non-paid) for Rogue Pirate Ninja Interactive, LLC (September 2009 – October 2010):

  • Involved in all aspects of design and production of ‘Tower Assault: Curse of Zombie Island’.
  • Contributed to marketing and online recruitment of new team members.
  • Performed many other miscellaneous roles.

Game Design workshop demonstrator for University of Lincoln (September 2009 – August 2010):

  • Helping students work through the unit and complete their Game Design assignments.
  • Level editing and mod development using Source SDK and Hammer World Editor.

I worked as a paid contracted developer for Rogue Pirate Ninja Interactive, LLC (May 2009 – September 2009):

  • Working with existing game engine codebase.
  • Using relevant software such as Subversion (SVN), Xcode IDE and associated debugging tools.
  • Working with other developers to complete 3D puzzle title ‘iRis’ for the iPhone OS platform.

Download Extended CV

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