About Me

Hello There!

My name is Jaqueline and I currently live in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Currently I am working on my own Indie Game. A cosy life sim, set in the beautiful Austrian Mountains. Before that I have worked from Junior Gameplay Programmer up to Senior Animation Programmer at Ninja Theory from 2018 till 2023.

I graduated as Bachelor of Science in Game Development & Augmented Reality from the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg in Austria.

My experience so far heavily lies in story-rich, visually realistic single player games, making sure characters move and behave believably. I also have some decent experience in making VR Games.
On a technical side, most of my experience lies within Unreal Engine. However, I have some experience in Unity and a little bit with custom engines also.

My Skills

Game Programming

C++ & C# & Blueprint
Unreal Enigne 5 & Unity

VR Experience

HTC Vive, Oculus, GearVR

Game Art

Hobbyist experience with Blender in Modelling, Rigging and Animating. Krita & Quixel Mixer

Project Management

Mentoring & Running small teams & Jira & Confluence & Hansoft & Git & Perforce

My Resume

  • Work Experience

  • Indie Solo Developer

    SneakySeahorseGames - Oct 2023 - Now Full-time

    Working as a all-in-one solo game dev studio on my cosy life sim set in the Austrian mountains.
    More information can be found here.

  • Senior Animation Programmer

    Ninja Theory - Jul 2022 - Oct 2023 Full-time

    In my position as Senior Animation Programmer at Ninja Theory I am taking on a whole host of responsibilities:
    - Pushing the limits of our animation systems forward; researching and implementing innovative ways to achieve our animation goals and make our characters come to life.
    Some examples include utilizing motion matching for realistic body animations and a system to allow seamless transitions between gameplay and cutscenes.
    - Leading a team of members from various disciplines to achieve high quality and realistic character animations and behaviour.
    - Working cross project with a wide range of disciplines and support each projects unique needs.
    - Mentoring and teaching more junior members of our team.

  • Animation Programmer

    Ninja Theory - Nov 2021 - Jul 2022 Full-time

    My work was mostly focused on character animation at this point. Taking over and further developing a house intern Motion Matching system for example and developing other systems aiding in character believability.

  • Gameplay Programmer

    Ninja Theory - Jan 2020 - Nov 2021 Full-time

    Working on different gameplay systems in Unreal Engine eg. Character AI, Async Loading Ressources.

  • Junior Gameplay Programmer

    Ninja Theory - Apr 2018 - Jan 2020 Full-time

    Unreal Engine & C++
    Working on Vader Immortal Episode 1 - a Star Wars VR Game. Supporting ILM in their development.
    Vader Immortal

  • Game Developer

    GoodCatchGames - September 2017 Full-time

    Game Developer - working with Unity and C# to create engaging games

  • Game Programming Intern

    ForceFieldVR - July 2016 - December 2016 Full-time

    Unreal Engine & C++
    Part of Pitches&Prototypes Team - developing several experiences and games for VR Devices. Including: HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Touch, Google Daydream and GearVR
    Development of tools to allow artists recording the trailer for ForceFieldĀ“s Landfall


  • Education

  • Bachelor of Science - BSc

    University of Applied Sciences Salzburg - 2014 - 2017 Graduated with Merit - 22th June 2017

    Major: Game Development & Augmented Reality
    University with special regards to practical application of learned knowledge
    Development of 4 game projects
    2016 - Scholarship for academic excellence
    2016 - Technical scholarship for academic excellence

  • Higher School Certificate with vocational education

    Secondary Technical Vocational College and Institute for Technology Hallein - 2009 - 2014

    Department of Operating Computer Science and Industrial Engineering
    2013 - Scholarship for academic excellence

Work

Skills

C++
Unreal Engine
4 & 5
C#
Animation
VR Game Development
Blender
Unity
Git & Perforce
SDL