Barry Cairns
Moby ID: 267299
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Shortly after graduating Edinburgh University, Barry briefly worked in the financial sector writing low level embedded software for POS machines before leaving to join Realtime Worlds as a junior programmer. Barry joined the Crackdown team early in the project and was involved in developing several aspects of Crackdown core gameplay and core technology, quickly rising to a senior gameplay programmer role.
After Crackdown, Barry was given a games research role alongside Billy Thomson to develop new game ideas to the prototype level, but it wasn’t long before leaving to join Xen Group to work with Lionhead on Fable II where he focused on physics, combat and networking systems.
Barry now works as a senior programmer for Ruffian Games.
Credited on 9 games
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Grand Theft Auto V (2022, Xbox Series) | Associate Technical Director: AI/Gameplay & Engine |
Red Dead Redemption II (2019, Windows) | Gameplay Programmers |
Crackdown 3 (2019, Xbox One) | Special Thanks |
Lumo (2017, Nintendo Switch) | Hat tips, Salutes & Hugs |
Kinect Sports: Rivals (2014, Xbox One) | Ruffian Games |
Nike+ Kinect Training (2012, Xbox 360) | Technical Director |
Crackdown 2 (2010, Xbox 360) | Senior Engineers |
Fable II (2008, Xbox 360) | Programming |
Crackdown (2007, Xbox 360) | Gameplay Programmers |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 5 games with Gary Liddon
- 5 games with Billy Thomson
- 5 games with Leigh Bird
- 5 games with Neil Pollock
- 5 games with Gareth Noyce
- 5 games with David Hynd
- 5 games with James Cope
- 5 games with Martin Livingston
- 5 games with Paul Large
- 4 games with Duncan Harrison
Companies
- 6 games with Microsoft Corporation
- 6 games with Xbox Game Studios
- 3 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 3 games with Rockstar Dundee Ltd.
- 2 games with Rockstar Games, Inc.
- 2 games with Rockstar San Diego, Inc.
- 2 games with Rockstar North Ltd.
- 2 games with Rockstar New England
- 2 games with Rockstar London Ltd.
- 2 games with Rockstar Leeds Ltd.
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