Clive Johnson is Technical Director - Network Programming at Cloud Imperium Games.[1]
Work at CIG
He was Lead Network Programmer in Foundry 42 UK.[2] He manages the network programming team; assigning tasks, designing solutions to network problems, working with other leads.[3] He is known primarily for his involvement in developing the netcode.[2]
Quote
"I don't think we could have done it anywhere else, nowhere else would have the patience to really develop this kind of tech on the promise of something that might happen." -Clive Johnson
Trivia
- He has a degree in Electronics Engineering and masters in Software Engineering.[3]
- He started programming in a
- He got his first game programmer job in 1992.[3]
- He worked in several programming disciplines: gameplay, systems, animation, physics, and networking, but networking is his favorite it brings to bear a lot of the knowledge and experience he has learned along the way.[3]
- He ran his own game development company at one point.[3]
References
- ↑ Inside Star Citizen: Dev Diary - Server Meshing, Star Citizen, YouTube, 4 July 2024
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Around the Verse - Performance and Optimization
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 David Ladyman and Ben Lesnick, Behind the Screens: Optimization, Jump Point, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 3-14, 2018-05-31.