Sam is a British programmer with a Bachelor of Science in Computing, specializing in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Leeds, England. He has 14 years in the videogame industry (2 in England, 12 in LA and Seattle), 10+ years developing console and PC games in C and C++. He has worked on 2 multiplayer Flash games for Facebook, has written 10+ games for Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo 64, XBox. Lots of experience with languages from assembly language to flash and Java, PlayStation 2 renderer microcode.

He is a generalist developer whose ideal job is working with creative teams, developing creative engineering solutions for user-oriented design problems. His other interests are reading, watching baseball, traveling, bike-riding, camping and exploring nature with his family including his 2 kids.

Unlike most Artefact employees, he doesn’t like soccer or sci-fi and holds no patents (and doesn’t even want one!)