Jak Barnes

Hi, I'm Jak Barnes!

I'm a Senior Engineer, currently
working at Radical Forge.

Welcome to my ✨ portfolio! ✨

Commercial Games

Under NDA

Bee Movie Ya like jazz?

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

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Unreal Engine
PC
Xbox One

Sea of Thieves a pirate simulator

Whilst working on Sea of Thieves I helped ship a wide range of content, most notably A Pirates Life and Season 7: Captaincy. Additional support included new gameplay features, performance optimisations & accessibility improvements.

Sea of Thieves: A Pirate's Life was in collaboration with Disney to make a "Pirates of the Caribbean" themed adventure.

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Unreal Engine
PC VR
Mobile VR

Spaceteam VR a chaotic, cooperative party game

Released on all major VR platforms. I worked on almost every aspect of the game, including gameplay, AI, tools, systems & localisation.

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Unity
PC
Xbox One
PS4
Nintendo Switch

Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure a 3D platformer

I implemented a bunch of core gameplay features, with a heavy focus on AI.

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In-House Engine
Android
iOS
MonkeyX

New Star Manager a mobile football management game

A football management game for mobile, released in 2018. I worked on integrating 3rd party SDKs and core engine functionality.

Hobby Projects

Moss a custom scripting language

Moss is a dynamically typed, interpreted scripting language. Designed for integration into other personal projects, like Sloth

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qcppu a C++ frontend for qcpu

qcppu (or qcpu++) is a C++ fork of the original qcpu, it provides an interactive debugger, display spec & integrated IDE.

qcpu is a fictional 16-bit CPU designed and written in node.js by my buddy @cesque.

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Sloth a custom C++ game engine

A cross-platform C++ 2D/3D game engine written using modern C++ utilising open source libraries.

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PICOPSP a PICO-8 emulator for the Sony PSP