Sea of Thieves

What is it?

Game Details

Website: seaofthieves.com

Studio: Rare Ltd

Platforms:

Engine:

Release Date: 20th March 2018

Time working on Sea of Thieves

My work on Sea of Thieves

I have worked in Gameplay, Engine, and Rendering. This has given me a broad amount of impact on the project that touches on networked game features, audio, rendering, vfx, accessibility, performance etc etc etc. While working on Sea of Thieves I have contributed production code in C++, C#, HLSL, and Typescript.

Despite my contributions being broad, I tend to focus most of my time on our GPU particle system. Our particle system is based on Cascade but heavily modified to cope with the performance requirements that we have.

Selected Contributions

Calm water zones

System for mapping out zones where the sea should be calmed or angrier

VFX

I am the owner of the particle system in Sea of Thieves

Upgraded to C++20

Took Sea of Thieves from C++14 to C++20. Even gave a talk (or 2) about it

Character Fade

Inspired by the dithering fade used in Uncharted 4

Vote to Open or Close Crew

Want to stop randoms joining your crew? Vote on it!

Saturation Level

Accessibility option for people that want to adjust the vibrancy of the colors

[numthreads(1,1,1)]
void SomeTest()
{
    const int Expected = 42;

    RareTestEqual(42, Expected);
}

Rare Shader Test

A unit testing framework for testing shaders. I have a GDC talk on the subject

TTS/STT/LGRTM/Translate

I implemented the TTS/STT features, as well as the game transcription and translate features