Josh Caratelli

Titles:

• Unannounced Title
  Platforms TBA
  Release Date TBA

Creating a new AAA title alongside a veteran team which includes the founding members of Infinity Ward (Call of Duty) and Respawn Entertainment (Titanfall, Apex Legends, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order)

For our first AAA title, we have partnered with a large Western publisher as we create an original IP. We aren't talking about the game yet, but we're excited to show it to you in the future

Find out more at gravitywell.games

Titles:

• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 | Core / Systems [Support Engineering]
  Xbox Series | PlayStation 5 | Xbox One | PlayStation 4 | PC
  Shipped Late 2022
   
• Call of Duty: Vanguard | Core / Systems
  Xbox Series | PlayStation 5 | Xbox One | PlayStation 4 | PC
  Shipped Late 2021
   
• Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | Core [Pre-Production]
  Xbox Series | PlayStation 5 | Xbox One | PlayStation 4 | PC
  Shipped Late 2020
   
• Call of Duty: Warzone  | Core
  Xbox One | PlayStation 4 | PC 
  Shipped Early 2020
   
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare  | Core
  Xbox One | PlayStation 4 | PC 
  Shipped Late 2019
   
• Call of Duty: WWII | Core / Live Ops
  Xbox One | PlayStation 4 | PC 
  Shipped Late 2017

Other responsibilities:

• As one of eight founding members, I helped plan and heavily contributed to onboarding for the Melbourne studio expansion to 150+ developers over two years.
   
• Author of a Slackbot Framework which is widely used across Activision for: JIRA task creation, anniversary and promotion celebrations and hosting “Ask Leadership” sessions
   
• Culture Committee Member, Fire Warden and First Aider

Titles:

• Rugby League Live 4
  Xbox One | PlayStation 4 | PC
  Shipped Mid 2017
   
• Don Bradman Cricket 17
  Xbox One | PlayStation 4 | PC
  Shipped late 2016
   
• Casey Powell Lacrosse 16
  Xbox One | PlayStation 4 | PC
  Shipped early 2016

As a Junior Programmer I work with an interdisciplinary agile team of artists, designers, sound engineers and programmers to design, prototype and implement new features within our existing proprietary engine technology. I ultimately strive to write clean, readable and maintainable code in C++ and LUA to meet deadlines on time and under memory budget.

Responsibilities include:

• Ownership of audio programming and meta-game systems such as match objectives and statistics, porting them from older projects and making improvements where possible.
   
• Implement in-game UI closely with art and related gameplay systems with design departments.
   
• Complete additional gameplay and core system tasks.
   
• Collaborating with the Senior Sound Designer, utilizing FMOD Studio as a middle-ware audio solution to implement new audio features as well as maintaining the existing sound code. Primarily focusing on sports title commentary and sound effect systems.
   
• Responsible for platform holder leaderboard implementation and in particular dealing with Microsoft's Xbox Developer Portal.
   
• Writing and maintaining engine plugins and external tools with the tech team to ensure productivity across numerous departments using C# and Python.
   
• General bug fixing and resolving Microsoft XR's and Sony TRC's to ensure our titles are submission compliant for the respective platform holders.
   
• Additional voice acting

Titles:

• Smog Game
  iPhone / iPad
  Shipped Late 2015

Founder at Double Mercury Entertainment where I was the sole programmer on Smog Game, an award winning eco-themed colour matching endless runner for the iPhone and iPad, which shows children the benefit of reducing their 'Smog' carbon footprint. www.smog-game.com

Responsibilities Include:

• Implementing game mechanics and core programming (ad network/analytics integration etc) in the licencee version of Unreal Engine 3 using UScript, C++, Obj-C and Kismet.
   
• Responsible for all business development related activities as company director:
  Incorporating Double Mercury Entertainment as a company, signing/formulating contracts (e.g. UE3 licence), regular meetings with our awesome supporters (PwC/Epic Games/The Arcade/IGDA Melbourne/GDAA - thanks!), entering award and trade shows etc.
   
• Overall vision holder for the game and at some point I have touched every aspect of Smog Games' development, from: UI to Sound, Quality Assurance to VFX and PR/Marketing etc.

I've been invited to speak at various conferences and conventions, primarily talks focused on providing advice for students and budding game developers.

Keynotes:

• DigiCon (2016)

Panelist:

• Game Connect Asia Pacific (2022),
• Academy of Interactive Entertainment (2018, 2019, 2020),
• PAX Australia (2014, 2015, 2016, 2019),
• Oz Comic-Con (2015)

Lectures:

• Tech Games Fest / Cause and Effect Gamers (2021),
• Swinburne University (2019),
• Game Connect Asia Pacific (2019),
• Happy Brain Education (2017),
• iiiConference (2016),
• ACMI ScreenFutures (2016),
• RMIT University Careers Advisers Seminar (2016),
• "Hop into the World of Crossy Road" - Apple Store, Sydney Event (2015),
• Victorian Education in Games Summit (2015),
• Computer Games Boot Camp - Monash University (2013)

As the groups founder I organized and ran Unreal Engine community events on behalf of Epic Games in Melbourne, Australia one of the burgeoning capitals of game development in the world.

Unreal Engine Melbourne is Epic's largest user group in Australia with over 250+ members. The meetup provides events such as technical talks, networking events and launch parties:

meetup.com/unreal-engine-melbourne

Epic Games provides official sponsorship through event assistance and supplying promotional merchandise such as NVIDIA Shield consoles, signage and assistance with promotion on their social channels.

Epic Games also provides Skype / Hangouts talks to get feedback, to see how they can better support the group, or just chat in general.