Adam Pletcher
Principal Technical Artist at Undead Labs
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Pletcher is a Principal Technical Artist with three decades of game industry experience, currently bringing studio-level systems and pipeline expertise to Undead Labs on Xbox and PC projects. Beginning as the sole artist on Parallax Software’s Descent in 1994, he evolved into Studio Art Director, Lead Designer and longtime technical art architect at Volition, helping scale teams from single digits to over 200 and shepherd franchises like FreeSpace, Red Faction and Saints Row. He specializes in core tools, content pipelines and cross-discipline workflow improvements that increase efficiency for artists and engineers alike. Based in Champaign, IL, he also mentors the next generation as head coach of a high-school FIRST Robotics team, where he introduced Python as the team’s primary robot language and built sustained STEM outreach programs. Notably, his career blends hands-on art and design with deep technical leadership—rarely seen at that seniority in technical art.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science Computer Technology, Bachelor of Science Computer Technology at Purdue University
Github Skills (43)
wxpython10
wxwidgets9
gui-toolkit9
yeoman9
python8
gui-framework8
linux8
windows8
forge8
fabric8
minecraft8
scaffolding7
robotpy7
cross-platform7
stem6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vScourge/Advent_of_Code
Dec 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:30 pushes in 5 years 1 month
vScourge/robotpy.github.io
Feb 2017 - Jan 2019
Github pages website for RobotPy project
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
pythonrobotpy
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