Jake Simpson
Associate Lead Programmer
Jake Simpson is an Associate Lead Programmer at Tanglewood Games that has been in the industry for 6 years, working with Tanglewood Games on a variety of Unreal game projects across gameplay, platforms and optimisation.
Jake has recently worked on leading small teams through a variety of in-development projects as well as helping to release Quidditch Champions on Gen 8 consoles in 2024. Jake also presented a talk at Unreal Fest Prague, titled Optimising the Game Thread.
Events featuring Jake Simpson
Games Talk 8 - Practical tips for standing out to recruitment
From a programmers perspective we will talk about what stands out to us when we recruit and showing how polish and planning can help with this.
We will show some practical tips around Dos and Don'ts, Optimisation, Technical designs and more from first hand experience working on games from Indie to AAA.