Joe Waters
aka:
Joe Waters Jr.
Moby ID: 29683
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Joe Waters was involved with professional game development since 1996. For his last position he resided as a senior engineer at 343 Industries, a division of Microsoft Game Studios, working on projects set in the Halo universe, until he passed away on 22nd December 2015.
For the year before ship, Joe was loaned out from 343 Industries to help Bungie LLC with graphics and effects technology for Halo: Reach. Prior to that, he was at Hidden Path Entertainment as Lead Engineer on an unannounced AAA title. Earlier, he worked at FASA Studio as Lead Effects Developer on Shadowrun from 2005 until the studio was shut down in August 2007, and as Lead Engineer on the Xbox 360 launch title Condemned: Criminal Origins before that. His earlier years in game development include a series of independent studios (Rogue Entertainment, Nerve Software, and Ritual Entertainment) in Dallas, TX.
His interests outside of video games included fire, soccer, explosions, his dog Spike, and bacon.
Credited on 26 games
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| Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration (2016, Windows) | Senior Software Engineer Leads |
| NBA 2K17 (2016, PlayStation 4) | Special Thanks |
| Halo 5: Forge (2016, Windows Apps) | Special Thanks |
| Battleborn (2016, Xbox One) | ATG Engineering Support |
| Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015, Xbox 360) | Senior Software Engineering Lead |
| Halo 5: Guardians (2015, Xbox One) | Special Thanks |
| NBA 2K16 (2015, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| NBA 2K15 (2014, Windows) | Special Thanks |
| Halo 4 (2012, Xbox 360) | Sandbox Engineering |
| Halo: Reach (2010, Xbox 360) | Graphics Engineer |
| Fat Princess (2009, PlayStation 3) | Special Thanks |
| ABM Command: DEFense CONdition 1 (2009, iPhone) | Game Design |
| Defense Grid: The Awakening (2008, Windows) | Hidden Path Entertainment is |
| F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate (2007, Windows) | Engineering Assistance |
| Shadowrun (2007, Xbox 360) | Effects Lead |
| F.E.A.R.: Extraction Point (2006, Windows) | Additional Development - Monolith |
| Condemned: Criminal Origins (2006, Windows) | Lead Engineer |
| F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon (Director's Edition) (2005, Windows) | Additional Monolith Development |
| F.E.A.R.: First Encounter Assault Recon (2005, Windows) | Additional Monolith Development |
| Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (2004, Windows) | Ritual Entertainment |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 9 games with Chris Voss
- 8 games with Mark Seminatore
- 8 games with Terry Jones
- 8 games with John Turner
- 7 games with John Roesch
- 7 games with Aaron Leiby
- 7 games with Matthias M. Wloka
- 7 games with Kristofor Mellroth
- 7 games with Mary Jo Lang
- 7 games with Alyson Dee Moore
Companies
- 7 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 7 games with Xbox Game Studios
- 7 games with Microsoft Corporation
- 6 games with Havok
- 6 games with Valve Corporation
- 5 games with Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
- 5 games with Vivendi Games (UK) Limited
- 5 games with Activision Blizzard...
- 5 games with SoftClub
- 4 games with Monolith Productions, Inc.
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