Cameron Foale
Head Of Discipline, Information Technology
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolCameron Foale is a technology leader and educator with 14 years of experience who currently heads the Information Technology discipline at Federation University Australia while continuing research and teaching in VR and computer-based media. He blends hands-on engineering with creative production—shipping game, web and e-learning systems and contributing bug fixes and feature improvements to the prominent Phaser.js 2D game framework. Comfortable across languages and stacks (Python/Django, C++, C#, Java, AS3 and more), he has led architecture and UX for game-based learning products and maintained freelance studio work in audio, 3D and interactive design. A PhD in Virtual Reality and Game Technology underpins his practical focus on technologies that enable creativity and engagement, and he’s known for championing distributed source control and modern development workflows. Based in Ballarat, Australia, he pursues deeply applied research while still preferring to "shoehorn" good engineering practices into teaching and projects.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Virtual Reality and Game Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Virtual Reality and Game Technology at University of BallaratHigh School, High School at Sebastopol Secondary College
English
Github Skills (12)
html10
framework710
phaser10
javascript10
game-development10
playframework10
2d-framework10
apex-framework10
game-dev10
arcade-framework10
webgl9
canvas8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
phaserjs/phaser
Sep 2013 - Dec 2013
Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Cameron primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the Phaser.js game framework. Their work included fixing typos, ensuring the text element plays well with scrolling by using explicit positioning, addressing issues with animation frame indexes, and fixing platform riding in the physics engine. They also added a postUpdate function to plugins and made adjustments to the way trimmed sprites are handled to support scaling and rotation.
gamehtml5game-frameworkphaserjs2d-game
FedUni/moodle-watermark
Nov 2021 - May 2024
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 6 months
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