#Infinifactory interface software#

#Infinifactory interface software#

“The moment when students say, ‘Oh, I get it!’ and I can see how I’ve changed the way they think about making this kind of gameplay system, or how they understand something like network programming - that’s incredibly rewarding,” Picioccio says.Īccording to Picioccio, software engineering is a discipline of creative problem solving. “I remember talking to her one day saying, ‘I’d love to guest lecture at DigiPen,’ and her saying, ‘You know, I can do you one better than guest lecturing - we’re actually looking to hire somebody right now!’” “When I finally managed to carve out some time for it again, I joined a local barbershop chorus and got involved in competing with them.” Through those competions, Picioccio ended up meeting and bonding with DigiPen Associate Dean and Principal Lecturer Jen Sward, a fellow game industry veteran who happened to compete on the women’s side of the same local barbershop scene. “I had been into chorus and musical theater in high school and college, and then I got really busy with my career,” Picioccio says. He’s also worked as an engineering leader at companies like Groundspeak, Glu Mobile, and most recently at Microsoft on the upcoming Halo: Infinite, where he contributed to the game’s campaign mode.Īlthough his nearly 20 years of game industry experience more than qualified him to teach software engineering and programming, Picioccio actually ended up becoming a DigiPen lecturer in 2016 thanks in part to his singing skills. Picioccio followed that up with work on DirectX, XNA Game Studio, Xbox, Kinect, and other technologies at Microsoft. He also implemented one of the first uses of SpeedTree - a vegetation programming and modeling software that would become a game and film industry standard, used most recently in titles like Ghost of Tsushima and Avengers: Infinity War. On Oblivion, Picioccio also worked on many systems, including character facial systems and procedural generation. Because of that, Picioccio contributed to a wide range of features on Morrowind, including working with artists to create the sky and weather systems, developing the magic system and all of its effects, and adapting the game to the then-new Xbox console. “Back then, we were a little bit more involved in the actual design and implementation of systems ourselves as programmers, something that’s gone away in the industry more recently as games have grown larger and more complex,” Picioccio says.

Fittingly, after earning his computer science degree in 2001, Picioccio would start off his career as a programmer on two of the biggest role-playing adventure games ever made at the time - Bethesda Game Studios’ classics The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. “I made little role-playing and adventure games written in assembly and BASIC on my Apple II,” Picioccio says of his earliest creations. Matthew Picioccio, senior lecturer in DigiPen’s Department of Game Software Design and Production, has been playing and developing games since he was just a little kid.

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Ps: Yes I said Peal Harbor, not Pearl Harbor :P Named after Colonel Jefferson Peal in honor of the sacrifice that lead to the end of _. What does a lifter look like sideways? (Ever play Talos Principal?)įull 3D orientation is for Infinifactory III -) Semi-full orientation of all parts (up down left right). Rosie the riveter it is time to save your planet!. It wasn't until the attack on Peal Harbor, the seat of the setting NIO (noob in office), that anyone paid any attention. One day young Nuke Skyblogger (his/her online name) was gazing into the _ powered telescope and realized it all was real. Together they set forth to avenge the (perceived) injustice done upon them. Determined to regain their pride (and their slaves) they joined forces with a similarly minded race of _ lifeforms. The Skip Drive and most of the tech brought back were depleted and reverse engineering was deemed a waste of time (given the more immediate issues of social upheaval).

We have not learned much from the alien tech as almost no one in authority believed it happened. Scenario - Earth a decade or so from the current story line. Search results have not shown any plans for development (I didn't search long.