Eric Lasota
Game Systems Engineer at Red Storm Entertainment
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarEric Lasota is a game systems engineer with 11 years of professional experience building gameplay and backend systems, currently working at Red Storm Entertainment in Durham, NC. He has a background in C#-based backend development and reporting from his work at PathCentral, and earlier programming experience at Decipher, Inc. An active contributor to the well-known ScummVM project, he has implemented engine-specific features and bug fixes in the MTROPOLIS engine, including motion and modifier systems. Eric combines practical production experience with open-source discipline, steadily improving legacy game engines and shipping robust systems. Colleagues would describe him as a busy, detail-oriented "worker bee" who prefers hands-on problem solving over fanfare. His mix of commercial game development and open-source contributions gives him a rare perspective on both shipping products and preserving classic game code.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
c-language10
engine10
game-development10
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game-engine10
game-dev10
architecture10
computer-architecture10
data-structure9
data-structures9
algorithms8
api-design7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scummvm/scummvm
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
ScummVM main repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 reviews, 413 commits, 135 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Eric's contributions primarily involve the implementation of new features and bug fixes within the "engines/mtropolis" directory of the ScummVM repository. They were responsible for adding boundary detection modifiers and fixing vector motion variable sourcing within the MTROPOLIS engine, as well as introducing new functionality. Additionally, they contributed to the implementation of the "Set" modifier.
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elasota/Aerofoil
Nov 2019 - Jun 2022
Contributions:46 releases, 20 reviews, 672 commits in 2 years 7 months
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