{"id":321,"date":"2025-07-20T08:36:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T08:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/?page_id=321"},"modified":"2025-07-20T22:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T22:06:41","slug":"international-game-technology-igt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/international-game-technology-igt\/","title":{"rendered":"International Game Technology (IGT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Role: Senior Software Engineer, Tools Developer, and Lead VR Research Developer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zillion Gators bonus round at sea | The Big Jackpot\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ngdNPvdseRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>During my time at IGT, I participated, and even led a wide variety of development and design efforts, ranging from Slot Game development, Tool Kit development, VR prototyping, and more.  <em>Zillion Gators<\/em>, a popular land-based IGT slot game, is one of many games I helped bring to life with popping slot symbols in Unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" data-id=\"301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-05-27-at-3.45.01-PM-1024x597.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-05-27-at-3.45.01-PM-1024x597.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-05-27-at-3.45.01-PM-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-05-27-at-3.45.01-PM-768x448.png 768w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-05-27-at-3.45.01-PM-1536x895.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-05-27-at-3.45.01-PM-2048x1193.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"277\" height=\"182\" data-id=\"54\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"741\" height=\"710\" data-id=\"51\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zg_square.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zg_square.png 741w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zg_square-300x287.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"56\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Localization Toolkit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to my work with games, I also designed and developed a localization automation toolkit for Localization Artists, which eliminated redundant, time-consuming labor, allowing the Artists to spend time on more creative tasks.  The Localization Toolkit, which was comprised of three main parts: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a plug-in for Adobe Flash\/Animate for Localization Artists to <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a &#8220;pre-flight&#8221; desktop application to validate exported Flash content<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a centralized, internal server which would process bundled pre-flight data, and return a fully prepared document<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/localization-1024x552.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/localization-1024x552.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/localization-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/localization-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/localization.png 1519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Graph for Loc Toolkit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This &#8220;fully-prepared document&#8221; could take hours for just one language, and games often were localized to over 10 languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>VR Research and Development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-06-12-at-11.14.55-AM-1024x563.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-06-12-at-11.14.55-AM-1024x563.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-06-12-at-11.14.55-AM-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-06-12-at-11.14.55-AM-768x422.png 768w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-06-12-at-11.14.55-AM-1536x844.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.itgoesboink.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-06-12-at-11.14.55-AM.png 1904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>IGT was also interested in the possibilities virtual-reality could bring to the casino floor.  I designed a symmetrical obstacle course for two players to race simultaneously.  Obstacles included climbable ladders, swinging pendulums, rolling blocks, and a helicopter-like menace which could dispense huge rolling balls.  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