Ice Age Village

Ice Age Village is a Free-To-Play Tycoon style video game for iPhone, iPad and Android. 

The New Orleans Gameloft studio took over the evolution of this project from another Gameloft studio and has been successfully updating it for 2 years.  By adding new animals, new features and fun time-limited events Gameloft has kept a large user base happy.

Responsibilities:  

• Implemented a server-based social events system for time-limited, region specific events.
• Created custom tools for Monetization directors to create events on the server and verify prizes, score limits and region settings
• Managed team schedules and planning for the team of 7 programmers.
• Updated libraries, client-side implementation of server-side updates and evaluated new server-side services available to games.
• Lead code reviews.
• Managed the training and supervision of intern and junior programmers.
• Re-factored and re-wrote systems to increase performance, lower compile time and clean-up code readability.