William Sykes

Will Sykes is a veteran games developer. He has worked in the games industry for over 20 years, coding on many successful projects, including Monument valley, Crackdown, Too Human, Project Cars and many more. He has developed products on many platforms, such as Amiga, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Switch, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, iOS, Android, Linux and Windows.

He now works as an independent consultant alongside teaching. In addition to working at major studios, Will has developed several solo indie games. He aims to create genuinely new game mechanics with a focus on ‘fun’ rather than story.

As a programmer, Will has in-depth knowledge of physics, computer vision, computer graphics, gameplay programming, VR and team management. He has worked in Assembly, C, C++ and C# programming languages and has experience using the Unity and Unreal game engines.

While Will’s primary experience is in programming, in his solo projects, Will develops all content including 2D art, 3D models, animation, music, sound, code and design.

Will has significant management and project planning experience. He has led development on several games projects and run a computer vision R&D team at Sony.

Will started his teaching career while working remotely on Crackdown 2 in 2009. Working from home was leading to social isolation, so Will spoke with London Metropolitan University about teaching opportunities. Will provided practical advice for the course and gained teaching confidence in regular guest lectures. When the opportunity to teach at UCL came around, Will jumped at the chance.

Patents

A parametric specification method based on voxelization for manufacturing a part, and an apparatus for manufacturing a part, 2018 
https://patents.google.com/patent/BR102019019639B1/

Augmented reality system, 2012
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8767015B2

System and method of image augmentation, 2012
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9150043B2/

 Apparatus and method for object positioning, 2012
https://patents.google.com/patent/US9129446B2/

Apparatus and method of augmenting video, 2012
https://patents.google.com/patent/US10140766B2/

Apparatus and method for augmenting a video image, 2012
https://patents.google.com/patent/EP2669868B1/

System and method of book leaf tracking, 2012
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20130301878A1/

System and method for manufacturing parametric parts, 2012
https://patents.google.com/patent/AU2019226152B2/