Hi, I'm Cole Sweet!
I'm a Technical Artist and 4th year computer science student at Western University.
About
A Technical Artist with a passion for Tools, Shaders, and Graphics.
It's great to meet you! I'm Cole Sweet! I'm a Technical Artist and 4th year Computer Science student at Western University. I'm always looking for an opportunity to work on great games with great teams while constantly learning and improving. You can also find me on itch.io!
I love games and getting involved with the game dev community. Here I am giving a talk about Shaders at LoJam, a local London ON game jam:
Some of my favourite games:
Interests outside games:
Experience
- Work on My Singing Monsters, Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire, internal web-based support tool, internal Slack app.
- Integrate new game content into both My Singing Monsters and Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire.
- Create bug fixes for My Singing Monsters.
- Tools: Unity, C++, Lua, XML, JavaScript, MySQL
- Work with a team to maintain and improve the quality of the player experience for Warframe.
- Create clear and informative bug reports.
- Verify bug fixes.
- Tools: Jira, DebugView
- Create all visual effects for BForBoss.
- Create shaders for objects and VFX.
- Blockout level designs for our current project and lead level meetings.
- Tools: Unity, Shader Graph, C#, Photoshop, Probuilder
Projects
An award-winning mobile game where you breed and collect monsters
Sequel to My Singing Monsters, a 3D mobile game with new monsters, songs, and systems!
A fast-paced, multiplayer third-person action shooter with lots of player customization.
B For Boss is pitched as a single player first person shooter with parkour elements and big boss fights.
A game about breaking apart people trying to come back together.
These are some tools I made for my own learning purposes.
Proficiencies
Skills
Tools
Accolades
LoJam 2022 Industry Judges' First Pick
London, Canada
Link: Family Fisticuffs
- Game Programming
- Team Leadership
- Collaboration and Communication
Skills:
- Industry Judges' First Pick
Awarded:
London, Canada
- Academic excellence
- Leadership
- Creativity
Skills:
- Science Schulich Leader Scholarships (1 of 3, $80,000).
Awarded:
London, Canada
Link: genee
- Unity
- Blender
- Photoshop
Skills:
- Second Place Overall
- Best 3D/VR/AR Project Using echo3D, Presented by echo3D
- Best Hack to Support Working from Home, Presented by CRA
- Organizer's Choice Award
Awarded:
London, Canada
Link: Mind-Space
- JavaScript
- Front-End Development
Skills:
- Best use of AWS, Presented by Amazon
Awarded:
Education
London, Canada
Degree: Bachelor of Computer Science with Game Development Minor (Expected 2025)
- Founder and President of The Western Game Design Society
Clubs:
- Graphics Programming
- Object-Oriented Design And Analysis
- Operating Systems
- Computer Organization and Architecture
Relevant Courseworks:
Contact
Modified from Varad Bhogayata.
Copyright (c) 2020 Varad Bhogayata
Copyright (c) 2023 Cole Sweet