Jonathan Courney's Resume Site
The Art of Game Design


   "There are not more than five primary colours; blue, yellow, red, white, and black, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen."    - Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"











   Welcome to my resume site. This site contains many samples of my work over the years, ranging from professional software to a wide variety of game mods and levels.

   I've been involved in the game industry for over 10 years, in both professional and independent game development roles. Professionally, I've worked on 4 shipped titles, and independently I've designed, programmed, and modded a wide variety of game genre.

   Outside of games, I've worked in a number of IT industries, ranging from Cellular data infrastructure for T-mobile, to my current position in programming support with Tempsys Inc.


Professional Games Experience:

   I've worked on 4 shipped titles: City of Heroes as a game designer for the PC MMORPG, Perfect Dark Zero as a test lead for the Xbox 360 FPS, and Crusin's world and Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball as a tester for N64.

   My specialties are in game systems design, such as working with mathematical models of game play ranging from combat systems to crafting systems. As a tester, I specialize in writing and managing full scale test plans for software releases.

Independant Game Experience:

   I greatly enjoy working in every aspect of game design, especially level design and programming. I have modded many games, and designed numerous Unreal Tournament levels ranging from Unreal 1 to UT3. Typically Blender, 3Dsmax, Gimp, and Photoshop are used for creating resources for my games and levels.

Programming Experience:

   As a programmer, I work in multiple languages, including C#, C++, C, VB, T-SQL, and web scripting. I've also worked with many programming platforms such as DirectX, XNA, OpenGL, Dotnet, and MFC. Over the year's I've experimented with many different languages and platforms, however I currently hold an AA in C++ programming and a certificate in VB/Sql server programming.

Augmented Reality:

   My current game projects are working with full immersion augmented reality systems. I have been programming games and rendering systems with ARToolkit to build an immersive multimedia system using VR glasses. This system enables users to see and interact with computer generated games as though they were right there in the room with them.