Jason Emery

On the social strike team. We were tasked with rapidly developing a social API layer for implementing friends, friend vs friend challenges, chat, and other features in time to ensure Heroes shipped with them on worldwide launch.

Notably this used Strange IOC.

As an embedded engine tech developer I helped see the game to completion. Worked on text rendering system, Facebook, push notifications, as well as numerous smaller issues.

Main implementation programmer for most of the project cycle. Heavy focus on AI and User Interface systems.

Roundtable project bringing together all of the main programmers in the studio in order to meet an incredibly short timeline (9 grueling weeks, IIRC).

Built memory and shape-drawing mini-games. Co-built systems for score and flair effects, online unlock codes, math library enhancements.

Lead Programmer
& Creative Writing / Design

- Notable for its giant scrolling maps in 16-bit high color mode, unusual for the DS.

I was writing this shareware series of Ultima-like tiled adventure games on my HP48 calculator when I was a teenager. Somewhere around 1993 or earlier, but I have no good way to verify now. Certainly not my first product but the only one I can still locate online. Direct interlacing with the faster Bios code made for an interesting hybrid of code.

I was brought in to assist with network communication, menus, and analytics to get the game ready in time for Alpha. The team was greatly appreciative that I helped them make it.

An early childhood education game that teaches musical concepts with the cast from Sesame Street.

Programming Lead

One of Griptonite's first Gameboy DS titles.

I fondly remember getting letters from kids who loved this game. I consider it one of the highlights of my career.

Ironically this was one of my favorite projects. It was a fun little side scroller, though we packed in lots of little secrets and content.

This was a really fun and strangely challenging project.

While I did a lot of the various pieces of this game, I am especially proud of the four-stage 'Alert' AI system. The enemies could follow you around the entire map using pathnodes (until their anger timers ran out), would somewhat realistically see you using a visibility cone, etc. A lot of emergent and fun behaviour ensued.

Boy, this title brings back memories. It was a great Diablo-style game on the GBA.

I know I did more but I definitely can recall implementing the pathfinding system for the AI helpers. They needed to be able to follow and find you even if the path became impossible.

I assisted with the tail end of this project. Helped with a lot of bug fixing and finishing up.

This project never saw the light of day. It was an attempt by a group of us scattered across the country to restart the Jazz Jackrabbit series, but the economic climate at the time was pretty unfavorable and we couldn't finish it on our own.

Ironically this was my first project at Griptonite. I was responsible for implementing a software 3D engine, stadium, physics, and a bunch of the gameplay code.

For various reasons outside our control this project was actually shipped years after it was complete.

Created object finding gameplay logic and DS specific art pipeline tools.

Assisted with scripting and database system support.

Internal name for an ambitious multiplayer RPG which never saw the light of day.

An interesting piece of trivia is that we created a 2D engine before being talked into using Unreal and remaking numerous 3D assets.

Assisted this project near the end to release.