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Dirty Bomb Dirty Bomb
Splash Damage Nexon
Splash Damage Nexon

Dirty Bomb

Dirty Bomb

Dirty Bomb is a fast-paced free-to-play objective-based shooter that was developed by Splash Damage and published by various partners including Nexon, DDestiny, and Axeso5. The title was distributed through Steam.

The backstory of the title is set in a near-future London in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion in the centre of London. Multiplayer maps featured in the game include iconic locations that can be found around London. Play as one of the available mercenaries for one of the two available opposing sides: Jackals and the CDA.

Responsibilities

The title was developed over a 5 year period, and my responsibilities in the development of the game often varied dependending on needs.

Localization Tooling

  • Tooling for importing, exporting, and managing localized strings and content.
  • Pipeline for insertion of new strings, and QA or producer approval.

Build Systems and Continuous Integration

Anti-Cheat Heuristics and Telemetry

  • Backend services for monitoring player behavior through telemetry.
    • Identification of potential cheaters.
  • Generation of daily reports outlining players who are considered to be cheaters based on a rating.
  • Support for Easy Anti-Cheat backend services (reporting and banning).

Automated Performance Testing

  • Web applications for navigating hotspots with connected game client, and visualizing captured historical performance data.
  • Automated nightly tests on submission of new builds to create daily comparisons against machine specification, and performance budget.

Crash and Error Reporting Solutions

  • Client and server multi-platform crash reporting (Linux and Windows).
  • Web applications for visualizing collated crash reports inserted on a nightly basis.

Standalone Launcher

  • Win32 application written in C++ that leveraged CEF3 for rendering its UI.
  • AngularJS framework used for creating a frontend framework.
  • Game content updates and patches distributed with LibTorrent.

Game Content Tooling

  • High-performance shader map baking software (normal, ambient occlusion etc.).
  • Custom tooling for enabling designers to create in-game items.
In-game screenshot of Phoenix and Rhino confronting each other on one of the in-game playable maps, "Underground". In-game screenshot of Phoenix and Rhino confronting each other on one of the in-game playable maps, "Underground".
The credits screen for Dirty Bomb. Displaying my attribution as "Luc 'LoveDuckie' Shelton" under "Tapir Troopers". The credits screen for Dirty Bomb. Displaying my attribution as "Luc 'LoveDuckie' Shelton" under "Tapir Troopers".
The marketing covert art for Dirty Bomb that was originally produced by Nexon, when the game was operated by them. The marketing covert art for Dirty Bomb that was originally produced by Nexon, when the game was operated by them.
Nexon marketing material for some of the mercenaries that are featured in the game. From left-to-right, the characters are Proxy, Arty, Aura, Fragger, Vassili, Sawbonez, and Hammer. Nexon marketing material for some of the mercenaries that are featured in the game. From left-to-right, the characters are Proxy, Arty, Aura, Fragger, Vassili, Sawbonez, and Hammer.
Marketing graphic for three mercenary characters featured in the game: Aura, Fragger, and Vassili. Marketing graphic for three mercenary characters featured in the game: Aura, Fragger, and Vassili.

Technologies:

Unreal Engine 3 AngularJS TeamCity MSBuild Buildbot WPF XAML Chromium Embedded Framework Flask Apache jQuery Bootstrap Perforce Subversion MongoDB .NET Framework Microsoft Visual C++ Easy Anti-Cheat Fireline DeltaDNA PostgresSQL LibTorrent LibCurl

Languages:

C++ C# JavaScript Python UnrealScript

Platforms:

Steam Windows