A Lifetime of Innovation
THE CATTERY
The online portfolio of Jeff Kesselman (Cyberqat)
EDUCATOR
In addition to a 25 year industry career, I also have extensive experience in undergraduate and graduate education.
CODE PROJECTS
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.
C++
SceneGraph3D
This is an example C++ scenegraph written ontop of OpenGL that I wrote to go along with a lecture on Scenegraphs.
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
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
Taught and consulted on program redesign
Artificial Intelligence for Games
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)
The Guitar from Space part 1_v2
All Videos
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."
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
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A Fateful Meeting
An experiment in non-linear story telling.
An attempt to catch my inner child at play...