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    A Lifetime of Innovation

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    THE CATTERY

    The online portfolio of Jeff Kesselman (Cyberqat)

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    Game Developer

    The Horde
    Titan Wars
    GEX
    Blazing Dragons
    Dark Sun Online
    Duke Nukem3D
    Project Darkstar
    Camp FU
    Zooo Kingdom
    Retroworld
    WorldWizards Project
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    EDUCATOR

    In addition to a 25 year industry career, I also have extensive experience in undergraduate and graduate education.

     

    CODE PROJECTS

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    C#

    TwoD Engine

    TwoDEngine is a scenegraph based 2D game engine written in C# and Monogame. As such it should port to any platform supported by the Monogame project. It has currently been ported and preliminarily tested on IOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, OSX, Windows (OpenGL), and Windows 8 Store.

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    C++

    SceneGraph3D

    This is an example C++ scenegraph written ontop of OpenGL that I wrote to go along with a lecture  on Scenegraphs.

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    WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

    Full Time Faculty

    Intro to the Game Production Process
    Critical Game Analysis

    Immersive Media  (AR/VR)

    Hardware Intrfacing
    Artificial Intelligence for Games

    Game Engine Design

    Advanced Technical Game Development
    Advise Capstone and Graduate Thesis Projects

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    NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

    Taught and consulted on program redesign

    Artificial Intelligence for Games

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    DANIEL WEBSTER COLLEGE

    Consulted on course redesign and taught full course load

    Introduction to Videogame Hardware
    2D Game Development
    3D Game Development

     
     

    Videos

    A show reel of small projects

    The first 12 minutes of an impressionist video project illustrating an original story in the late Victorian style of H P Lovecraft

    A video of a programmatic peice that decomposes images into their component shapes and animates them.  (see pdf for more info)

    Decomposition Description.pdf
    Decomposition Description.pdf
    The Guitar from Space part 1_v2

    The Guitar from Space part 1_v2

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    An attempt to capture childlike

    play...

    "It is very rare in my academic or professional career where I have called
    someone a genius. Jeff is one of the very few for whom I maintain that word."

    NIcholas Fortugno
    CCO PLaymatics LLC

    Prof. Game Design at Parsons The New School for design

    "As a professor, Jeffrey worked closely with the other faculty members in preparing materails for his courses.  I have visited his class and have been impressed by his effectiveness with our students,  His lectures are well planned and thorough and his knowledge of and enthusiasm for the material are obvious."

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    Dean Nicholas Bertozzi
    Dept of Engineering
    Daniel Webster University

    "Jeff came to us at Blue Fang to lead the technical side of transforming our 10 year old traditional game company into a modern online game company.  

    He designed the entire online stack for what was intended to be an online destination site and then turned on a dime to repurpose the design as a massively multiplayer facebook game.  Our first such game, Zoo Kingdom, shortly after launch was the second fastestgrowing game on Facebook.

    The systens Jeff designed and managed the construction of behaved flawlessly under exceptional usage and were more secure then those of our number one competitor. (Zynga.)"


    Hank Howie

    VP of Worldwide Development

    Disruptor Beam

    "Jeff was one of the best Lecturers I've had at Northeastern. Even after class had ended he would stay in class to answer any questions I had. He was a wealth of knowledge in any aspect of Computer Science. I would Recommend any class that he teaches regardless of the topic."

    Zachary Fand
    Semior Engineer Zynga

    Authorship

    Co-Author

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    Java Platform Performance

    Book on Amazon

    Chapter 7:  LAN networking for Java games

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    Practical Java Game Programming

    Book on Amazon

    A poem of academic interest inspired by the movie Jurassic Park

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    The Maven

    Read this poem

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    A Fateful Meeting

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    An experiment in non-linear story telling.

     
     

    An attempt to catch my inner child at play...

    Stills Gallery

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    EarlyBird

    EarlyBird

    A symbolic aphorism

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