Logan Hobbs

Assassin's Creed's first venture into VR. My experience inlcudes creating tools for Level Designers and Cinematics to make the use of particle Vfx simpler and more performance friendly, aiding the Online and Social team with achievments and boot flow, and helping close out the Mission Tech team with game flow and continue flow bugs.
As my first industry project, there were a lot of challenges transitioning from college to AAA. Despite these challenges, I have been able to receive high praise for my work from seniors and feel like my work is making a difference across the entire project and team.

My first experience working on a Live Service game. I was able to contribute to the Physics and Character teams by working on Projectile Ballistics and other character interactions. While the project was shut down shortly after joining, I able to gain a lot of knowledge about the live service game execution and adapted quickly to the fastpaced environment and delivery structure.

Rainbow Six presented an opportunity to take lead on a major tech-debt area: Testing. Working specifically on improving the Autotesting Framework, I worked on creating the Epic and LoQs for task planning. By keeping in constant contact with the QA Analysts working on creating the test plans, I worked to refactor the existing framework to work on our live gamemodes. I utilized that refactor to aid the testing of our Events modes by having them be more data driven, so that QA could make the tests without needing a programmer every time an update was needed. Tackling this debt with my team has brought praise from all over the project as we are completing something that had been needed for a long time, and are directly aiding at preventing game-breaking submissions from making it into the game.

Mythic Quest was a TV project involving the creation of a VR game and an Animal Crossing style game, highlighted in episode 5. For VR, I delveoped a cooking simulator modified to fit the scene's script. This involved working with trigger volumes, animations, asset importing, and even recording the scene in engine myself. While it was developed in a familiar engine, the face-pased schedule of TV presented it's own challenge. I was also mentoring an associate developer so that they could get more used to the environment and work.
On top of the simulator, we also created a small multiplayer world where the player models could interact with one another. This included changing models and controlling the mouth movement through both voice and a trigger pull.
For the Animal Crossing inspired game, I was able to work on different world design and NPC interactions. This game was much smaller as it as mostly used for some quick video segments to highlight mechanics.

For The Summer I Turned Pretty season 3, I worked on a mobile platformer for iPhone. This was created from the ground up and deploy through Apple's Developer Process. It functions similarly to Jetpack Joyride as it is an endless runner wil obstacles, enemies and power-ups. I got to work with sprite sheets to create animations and fine tune the physics to have everything line up properly. Amazon was very specific about what they wanted for the app and made several changes during development. This was a welcome challenge to adapt to and required several refactors to achieve their goal. At the end of the project, the team was congratulated by Amazon's producers for delivering months ahead of their schedule.