Oksana Kubushyna

Technical Director

Petroglyph Games, LLC

10/2011 – present

Currently serving as one of the studio's Technical Directors while maintaining the role of the Lead Engineer on the EoN project.

Lead Engineer

Petroglyph Games, LLC

02/2009 – present

Started as a Lead Gameplay Engineer and was later promoted to a Lead Engineer on the “End of Nations” MMORTS title. For this project Petroglyph built a new engine using three-tier client-server architecture.

Responsibilities included:

1. Input on architecture for all gameplay systems (e.g. monikers, action-condition)
2. Implementation of a number of gameplay systems (e.g. unit behaviors, aggro)
3. Overseeing conversion of legacy technologies to new paradigms (e.g. server authority, XML to DB, persistence-authoritative operations, LUA-based GUI)
4. Creating and/or advocating new intra- and cross-department processes necessary due to the increased project scope (e.g. multiple Perforce branches, documentation process, feature request/delivery process)
5. Defining technical milestones, creating schedules, managing tasks and priorities for the team of about 20 engineers; working with other departments to meet project goals.

Lead Gameplay Engineer

Petroglyph Games, LLC

06/2008 – 02/2009

Worked as a lead engineer on a small strike team to create a gameplay prototype for a “first of its kind” MMORTS game using Petroglyph’s pre-existing proprietary peer-to-peer engine. Based on the prototype the company went on to sign a contract for the “End of Nation” MMORTS title currently in development.

Game Engineer

Petroglyph Games, LLC

2004 – 2008

Worked on "Star Wars: Empire at War" and "Universe at War" game series. Due to a very small team size got a chance to work on most areas of the engine.

Architected and Implemented:

1. Achievements and Scoring System
2. Radar map
3. Surface effects
4. Weather system

Worked on Gameplay:

1. Units (abilities, behaviors, effects, SFX, locomotors)
2. Effect, Ability, Behavior and Attribute systems
3. Targeting
4. Research tree
5. Internationalization and Localization (IME)
6. Input (mouse, keyboard, controller)
7. Save/load code

Worked on Graphics:

1. Particle system
2. 3D primitives: terrain threads (shorelines), tracks, decals, shadow blobs, laser kites, laser beams, lightning

Worked on Tools:

1. Particle Editor
2. Terrain Editor
3. Asset Viewer
4. 3DS Max plug-ins

Research Associate

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2002 - 2004

NASA Virtual GloveBoX (VGX) Project

1. Motion detection, object detection, feature extraction algorithms
2. Parallel image processing (MMX), 3D Modeling (OpenGL, DirectX)
3. Several published papers