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Sumit Mehra GAME
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CAREER
OBJECTIVE
To lead a team of designers, artists and engineers and create
finest games
EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
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8+
years of game development experience
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13
Published Game Titles (PC, Web, Mobile)
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Strong
Logical, Analytical and Problem Solving skills.
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Strong
Visualization Skill.
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Lead
Programmer - one of India's best* 3d Game – Battledust: The Championship. [*GameForce
Magazine (pdf file)]
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Represented
Reliance
Infocomm and
gave a presentation to Shri A. B. Vajpayee - Former Honorable Prime Minister of
India on Reliance Mobile Entertainment. - 27th Dec 2002.
EXPERIENCE
-- 1st June 2008 – Present (2 Months)
Organization: Microsoft
Designation: Program Manager –
Windows Game Experience.
-- 12th December 2005 – 1st June 2008 (2 years, 6 months)
Organization: Microsoft Casual Games
Designation: Program Manager –
Carbonated Games.
Uno Rush - Annouced at E3 - 2008, one of the first games to include the new Party and Avatar features of Xbox Live Arcade.
-- 5th September 2005 – 2nd December 2005 (3
Months)
Organization: Jamdat
Mobile (Now EA Mobile)
Designation: Project Manager -
Engineering.
My Responsibilities: Creating Project Plans, setting project
priorities and facilitating development interactions with company’s global
studios.
Highlights
Ported Doom RPG onto T-Mobile’s Sidekick (device)
Also worked on game ports for titles like Tetris, Madden NFL,
Lemonade Tycoon, Yahtzee Deluxe
-- 2nd April 2001 – 31st August 2005 (4
Years, 4 Months)
Organization: Paradox-Studios Ltd. (Now
called Jump Games)
Designation: Development Manager. (Started as a Programmer in this
studio)
My Responsibilities: Game Design and Project Management.
Highlights
As a Development Manager:
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Planned
and designed the complete pc game development pipeline.
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Co-designed
and developed a prototype for 3D Naval Simulation War Game with TIL Defense Systems. I was stationed in Tel
Aviv, Israel with the core development team, a great project which never saw
the light due to political and budgeting issues.
As a Game Designer:
1. My first game design - Bomberbabe.
1.
It
clocked over 100,000 downloads.
2.
It
also won a special jury award at the BAF awards 2005.
3.
It
was localized into Italian. Dynamite Baby, where it sold more than 8000
copies.
2. The Lost Astra: 6 months of pre-production – Wrote the story
and designed the game mechanics of a 3rd Person Action Adventure
Game. The game demo was built using Ogre and was greatly admired but failed to
lock publishing deal. The Game’s Cinematic video also became the part of Autodesk
3ds Max’s presentation video for their 3ds Max 8 launch at Mumbai.
3. 3d Animated Chess: Shatranj (Indian word for Chess)
Released in Italy.
As a Programmer:
I was the lead programmer for BattleDust: The Championship, a 3d one-on-one fighting
game. Although it was a complete rip-off of Mortal Kombat 4, It got lot of
critical acclaim, and is still considered to be the best* PC Game Developed in
India. It was the first time for an Indian Game Development Team to build and
publish a FULL PC Game Title. India's veteran Rock band Pentagram did the
complete sound track. A full motion video of the game was aired on MTV and
Channel V. This game was also released here.
(* Reviewed and rated by Game Force Magazine)
The game demo won 3rd prize in a German Game Contest in 2003.
News coverage (links) of the game.
-- 12th Jan 2000 – 2nd March 2001 (1
Year, 2 Months)
Organization:
Netillennium Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Designation: Web Programmer.
My Responsibilities: Design and Develop an Online Gaming Portal - Passion4Games
and a Match making software for facilitating online play.
INTERVIEWS
1. Indian Gamer
(Web Page)
2. Game Force Magazine (PDF File)
3. Indian Express Newspaper (JPG File)
CREDIT
LIST - GAME TITLES
UNO® (MSN Messenger and MSN Games) - Multiplayer
Online version of the classic family card game – Producer
Sudoku Too (MSN Games) - Two player version of Sudoku –
Producer.
Chess (MSN Games) – Multiplayer Chess game – Producer
Shatranj (PC) - 3d Animated Chess
(Single Player and Multiplayer) - Game Designer
Bomberbabe (PC) - (3d Modification of
the classic Bomber man with 4 modes of game play) - Game Designer
Battle Dust: The Championship
(PC) - (one-one fighting game - 8 characters) - Lead Programmer
Velocity (PC) - (3d arcade style
space race) - Game Designer and Programmer
Ten Pin Terror
(PC) - (3d bowling with physics) - Programmer
Aakraman (PC) - (3d battleship) -
Programmer
Call Of The Hawk
(PC) - (3d puzzle game) - Programmer
Crypt Of Confusion
(PC) - (3d escape the maze game) - Programmer
Chamber Of Trials
(PC) - (3d matching color puzzle) - Programmer
Psimora's Den
(PC) - (2d casino game - Video Poker, Slot Machine and Black Jack) -
Programmer
HOBBY
CREDITS
SoDoKo Board game: Here you play against SoDoKo, the Space
Robot Dog on a 6 x 6 grid. In the outer galaxy there are 7 different lots of
space bits. The first player picks 3 space bits for the other player to place
on the grid. He places them and he, in turn, picks 3 space bits to give to his
opponent to place. The game goes on thus. The winner is the one who, by placing
on the grid, completes a row, or column, or a 3x2 block of 6 different space
bits.
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Sciences. Fergusson College, Pune
University.
Final year project: Nibbles (2 player game written in C++) (1999)
PERSONAL
DETAILS
Favorite Games till date:
Contra, Lunar Pool, Bomber man, Guitar Hero, God of War 1 and 2, Age of empires
2 – conquerors, Onimusha 3, Need for Speed: Underground 1 and 2, Half-Life one
and NOT two, Unreal Tournament Series, Mafia, Portal, Crysis…the list goes on
Career Motto: Passion can never be bought it can only be
surrendered.
Life's Motto: Constantly Adapt to change, as change is inevitable.
Hobbies:
Mixing and Listing Trance Music, Meeting friends over beer and engaging in
arguments, collecting, playing and creating board games.