NForget.com
Nathan Forget
(Pronounced for-zháy.)
3520 Fairway Ln. Orlando, FL 32804
n@nforget.com (757) 581-7135
Game Development Experience:
  • Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy @ UCF (August 2006 - December 2007)
  • Assistant Lead Programmer, Master Plan
    • Designing, architecting, and implementing game features and pipeline tools, especially in-game vehicle editor
    • Building C++ game engine atop Ogre and ODE
  • Data-driven Xbox/Windows Game Engine
    • XML-driven 3D game engine
    • C++, Xbox XDK, DirectX 9, HLSL
    • Fully object-oriented, implementing several design patterns
    • Designed and implemented custom scripting language
  • Programmer, Death River Adventure
    • Action game, developed in two weeks with one other programmer
    • C++, OpenGL
    • Ported game to the Xbox
  • Programmer, Torque Game Engine
    • Built three 3D game prototypes, each in two weeks
    • Used Torque Game Engine and Torque Shader Engine/TGEA
    • Worked with teams of artists and producers
  • Programmer, Flash Games
    • Programmed three game prototypes, each in two weeks
    • Highlights include fighting game AI, strategy and puzzle game logic, and a lightweight shooter game
Other Experience:
  • Web Developer, Trader Publishing Company, Autoextra.com (July 2005 – August 2006)
    • Implemented server-side (PHP) and client-side (Javascript/DHTML) features on a site serving nearly 1.5 million pages per day
    • Took initiative to expand site architecture to enable development of AJAX/DHTML features
    • Bug finding/fixing
    • Wrote and tuned SQL queries for accessing an Oracle database
Skills:
  • Preferred Languages: C, C++, Python
  • Proficient Languages: C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Actionscript, 68000 Assembly, SQL, XHTML, Javascript, CSS, Torquescript
  • Development Tools: Visual Studio, Perforce, CVS, Subversion
Education:
  • 2006 - Present Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy at UCF, Orlando, FL
        M.S. in Interactive Entertainment
    • Cumulative GPA: 4.0
  • 2001 - 2005 The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
        B.S. in Computer Science
        Secondary Major in Psychology
    • Cumulative GPA: 3.44
    • Computer Science GPA: 3.72
  • Monroe Scholar, Golden Key Honor Society, National Merit Scholar Semi-Finalist
Interests:

    I enjoy games of all kinds: electronic, paper and pencil, miniatures, card games, and especially board games. I also enjoy soccer, reading, and politics.