Steve Ulrich

Software Leader

Marine Corps Veteran

Sacramento, CA

Get in touch at steveulrich@gmail.com

Latest Projects

Call of Duty

Contributed technical expertise to the development of new and existing multiplayer gameplay features including gametypes, equipment, and field upgrades for Treyarch's Black Ops 6. Supported live service development on Ranked Play and fixes for Modern Warfare II and Modern Warfare III's launch.

Role: Senior Technical Designer

Uptown Gifts

Uptown Gifts brings gift cards into the 21st century with Augmented Reality photorealistic models of the gifted items, providing a fun, crisp user experience.

Role: Lead Developer

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Lenovo ThinkReality A6 Headset

Supported Lenovo’s Go-To-Market Strategy, System Architecture requirements, manufacturing, Business and Market Intelligence, Vendor Analysis, ThinkReality’s software platform, and much more.

Role: Lead Unity Developer

American Heart Association

A mobile “AR Arcade” for the American Heart Association called the Kid’s Heart Challenge. It was deployed to 18 million kids across America and raised $9.4M through the app.

Role: Lead Unity Developer

Ericsson 5g Mixed Reality

A mixed reality project using the ODG R9 Glasses that matched up real-world construction with a pre-scanned model to overlay fun mini-games in the real world.

Role: Lead Developer

Blue Apprentice

Blue Apprentice is a children's educational game built for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and WebGL. It features science based curriculum learning and was a partner product with Popular Science.

Role: Technical Designer

Personal Content

Project B

Project B is a currently in-development game built on Unreal Engine that leverages Lyra content to bring my Core title Breakaway to a standalone project.

Status: Pre-alpha

Breakaway

Built using the Core game engine, Breakaway is a fast paced hero sports brawler inspired by Amazon Game Studio's cancelled project "Breakaway". Plays like a combination of Overwatch and Rugby.

Additional new "Arena" mode added and new map created.

Make Them FLY

Make Them Fly is a last-player-standing PvP game based on the "Moon Door" scene from the hit show Game of Thrones. Each round, players attempt to shove opponents off of a collapsing arena.

5x Featured Core Game

Shhliders

Shhliders is a fun parkour racing game built on the Core game engine. Utilize a fun "sliding" mechanic to traverse a treacherous world, find shortcuts, and claim victory in this timed obby course!

Featured in Manticore's $6000 Putt & Slide Tournament

Blameable Systems and player retention

GDC Amplifying New Voices Presentation

This presentation revolved around the use of frustrating mechanics in order to boost casual player retention. By giving casual players mechanics that are either situationally strong or seemingly random, while being mechanics that a core user can control or counter, you give the players something to blame when things don't go their way.

YouTube Content

Personal YouTube content for games as a "Taught Quick" series, where systems and mechanics are explained to the point with very little video fluff associated with most YouTube video content.

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