Marco Corbetta is VP of Technology at Cloud Imperium Games.[1]
Work at CIG
He had a personal large interest in procedural generation.[2]
While procedural generation was planned for further down the road, he insisted he could work on it now on his spare time if he could focus on it. His workload got lightened so he could work on it. He then threw a build at Hannes who is the cinematics director, and showed to the team what was later shown in pupil to planet.[2]
He was Senior Technical Director at Foundry 42 before becoming VP of technology.[2]
Other Works
He was lead programmer of Crytek's Far Cry and Crysis franchise. He also wrote the 3D engine Equinox, before his time at Prograph Research, where he was credited in 2002 for Tsunami 2265, distributed in the US by Got Game Entertainment.[3][4][5]
Trivia
- He wrote Planetary Generation in Games.[6]
References
- ↑ CitizenCon 2953: Shaping the ‘Verse - The Future of StarEngine, Star Citizen, YouTube, 24 oct. 2023
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 SCAA Interview with Brian Chambers, Nichole D'Angelo, YouTube, 27 Feb 2017
- ↑ Marco Corbetta, Mobygames
- ↑ ""Structure Procedural System" tech demo, which [...] was developed by Crytek programmer Marco Corbetta", Will Crysis 2 Be Able To Render New York City Like This?, Kotaku, January 22, 2010
- ↑ Crysis 3's advanced graphics settings revealed, high-res textures at launch confirmed, pcgamer.com, December 03, 2012
- ↑ Planetary Generation in Games, link.springer.com, 10 May 2022