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Jarrid Kamphenkel

Senior Gameplay Engineer specializing in game engines and narrative systems

OnceLost GamesSouthern New Hampshire University8 Years ExperienceSenior LevelWorks Flexible

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Gameplay/tools engineer with experience in Unity/C# and narrative systems who built an internal scripting formatter at Pocket Gems that nearly doubled scene scripting throughput. Also worked on The Wayward Realms, integrating a local lore-trained NLP system for procedural NPC dialogue and building a host-authoritative co-op prototype with custom replication debugging.

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Key Strengths

  • built Unity/C# scripting tool that nearly doubled scene scripting speed
  • improves production pipelines through lightweight automation
  • experience integrating local lore-aware NLP systems into game content pipelines
  • balances AI reliability, latency, and cost with token limits, caching, and fallbacks
  • uses replayable test cases and design/engineering reviews for iteration
  • implemented pre-production co-op prototype with host-authoritative synchronization
  • strong debugging approach using detailed replication logging and explicit assumption checks
  • cross-platform PC shipping experience on Linux, macOS, and Windows

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Experience

Lead EngineerOnceLost Games · Oct 2022 – Present
Scene ScripterPocket Gems · Jan 2023 – Apr 2023contract
Gameplay EngineerSpellcast Studios · Nov 2020 – Mar 2026

Education

Southern New Hampshire Universitybachelor, Computer Science

Skills

Unreal EngineUnityCC++C#PythonDebuggingcachingCustom EnginesGLTF PipelinesRendering OptimizationStructured Asset PipelinesSerializationRuntime Data FlowToolchain Automation

Languages

English

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Jarrid KamphenkelSenior Gameplay Engineer specializing in game engines and narrative systems