Resume

Name: Stephane Roncada
E-Mail: ronronmx@gmail.com
LinkeIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephaneroncada
Speaks: English (fluent), French (native)

Shipped Games: I have shipped a total of 15 games since 2001.
Making Games: 12+ years of experience making games.
Creating Art: 14+ years of experience creating environment art, 8+ years of experience creating and texturing models/props.
Writing Code: 4+ years of experience programming tools (3ds max, Photoshop, Unity3D), writing game logic and fixing/updating existing code.
Building Websites: 14+ years of experience building websites, 6+ years of experience with WordPress, HTML, CSS, PHP, JAVASCRIPT.
Leading / Managing: 5+ years of experience with leading and managing a mobile game project, from beginning to end.

Lead environment artist, in charge of creating and overseeing the levels.
Lead UI integration artist, in charge of turning Photoshop UI mock-ups into fully functional in-game UI screens.
Lead AI tuner, in charge of making the AI racers competitive, but still beatable.
Lead technical artist, tool creation and maintenance to improve artist workflows and task automation.
Lead web designer, in charge of building and maintaining company websites.
Games Shipped: 2XL ATV Offroad, 2XL Snocross, 2XL MX Offroad, Ricky Carmichael's Motocross Matchup, Capital City.

Still at 2XL Games, we created our first mobile game on iPhone/iPod.
Lead artist and track designer, in charge of designing the race tracks, the props and the environments.
Lead AI tuner, in charge of making the AI racers competitive, but still beatable.
Started learning and playing around with MaxScript and C#.

Retired from professional racing to join the video games industry full time.
Joined 2XL Games to be one of the Track Designer/Environment Artist for BAJA: Edge of Control.
Worked directly with the environment artists to create race tracks that would be challenging and fit within each environment.
Moved up to level designer, in charge of designing the race tracks and the world around them.

Did more part-time work for Rainbo Studios over the years (while I was still racing professionally).
Shipped some of their most successful Off-Road racing games: MX Unleashed, MX vs ATV Unleashed, MX vs ATV Untamed, ATV Offroad Fury 1 & 2.
Created over half the racetracks for those games during that time.

Worked part-time with Rainbo Studios and Microsoft to create realistic Motocross & Supercross racetracks for the PC Game "Motocross Madness 2". Back then I was still a Professional Motocross racer so I had a special relationship with Rainbo & Microsoft, which allowed me to create tracks when my scheduled allowed it. This is also the year I learned 3D modeling & texturing.

I am 100% self-taught. I am a fast learner, and can learn anything when I put my head down.

Take a concept to a finished and functional in-engine game asset.
Find and overcome workflow bottlenecks, production challenges and problematic assets.
Reverse-engineer bugs, working with artists and engineers to find the best solutions and resolve problems quickly.
Seek out new technologies and finding better ways to achieve our goals, implementing new tech into the workflow to speed-up production.
Listening to what artists need and delivering tools that they want, not tools that I think they want.
Managing projects in an efficient way, with discipline and organization, to prevent future headaches.
Coming up with innovative and intelligent solutions to any challenges that arise during production.
Can wear many hats, and switch between them at any given time.

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