Phil Chu

Providing consulting and contract software development while self-publishing apps and games.

Journeyed through the semiconductor, defense, space, computer graphics, mobile Internet, and video game industries.

Bachelors degree

Masters degree

Your dim sum companion. Read about dim sum and learn how to pronounce the dishes. Available on Itch.io and the App Store.

Be the ball! A Unity reimplementation of the classic bowling game, licensed from Hyper Entertainment. Available on Itch.io, Steam, and the App Store.

An iPad reader for the Cinefex visual effects magazine, with extras such as videos and image galleries. Kept it up and running over the march of iOS evolution, fixing, updating, and optimizing in-app purchases, user interface, video...

An introduction to game development for iOS using the Unity game engine and an example bowling game (super simple version of HyperBowl).

A Playstation Home driving/shooting game with alien invader teddy bears.

A Playstation Home multiplayer racing game.

A 3D virtual world implemented in CryEngine. Supported third-party developers, documented the Lua API and framework for creating minigames on the community wiki (a CryEngine wiki even copied part of it!), tweaked physics, updated Scaleform integration, modified CryEngine to work with Scaleform IME (for localization).

A nifty 3D modeler originally developed at Nichimen Graphics. Updated to work on Windows XP.

A vampire western for Playstation 2 and Xbox. Worked on various HUD elements, PAL support, demo builds, implemented multiplayer split-screen, added designer-friendly Lua interfaces for audio, health bars, etc.

Small games released as webplayers, Mac widgets, and mobile apps.

A skateboarding game bundled with Tech Deck figures. Implemented installers, dynamic shadows, video, a build system.

A 3D bowling game, rolling in fanciful locations. Took over for the original lead programmer, updated attraction version of HyperBowl for localization, new lanes, optimization, new graphics cards, arcade and PC support.

One of the first mobile web browsers, conforming to the WAP standards. Implemented an HTTP proxy for the Neomar WAP gateway, supporting the Neomar mobile web browser on Blackberry pagers and Palm devices, launched on the Motient service.

Supply chain scheduling software for semiconductor fabs. Managed the group reponsible for installation, XML interoperability, and user interfaces.

Supply chain planning software for semiconductor fabs. Upgraded from Tcl to TclPro.

Successor to N-World, used to make Gollum. Fixed some code and visited 3D hardware vendors in Silicon Valley to get test cards and chat about OpenGL.

A 3D modeling and animation package, used for Mario 3D. Ported from IrisGL to OpenGL on SGI workstations, then from Irix to Windows NT, all in Franz Allegro Common Lisp (and a bit of C). Manager of core software group (all the libraries - graphics, audio, UI, security...)

An expert system for submarine simulation. Added multiplayer network capability to support participation wide area networked exercises (donned a submarine uniform and took part in two of them myself).

A syntax-directed Emacs mode used by astronomers and Institute staff to prepare and edit Space Telescope observation proposals.

A computer architecture based on content-addressable memories. Implemented compilers and simulators and simulations for the Database Accelerator and Content-Addressable Parallel Processor.

A VLSI layout synthesis tool, used in-house to design new products, running on TI Explorer Lisp Machines. Added optimizations and other improvements, skipped most of the meetings (also an optimization).

Bachelors thesis project implementing an Othello game in Multilisp (Multello) to run on the Concert 32-processor computer, trying various parallelism strategies to compare processor utilization and final performance.

Part time student work on a graph display for the the START natural language parser, then running on Symoblics Lisp machines.