Daniel Kennett
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Dan Kennett,
Daniel Kennet
Moby ID: 25436
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Daniel has worked in the games industry for over 12 years across several start-ups as well as giants like Electronic Arts and Microsoft. Daniel spent most of the last 12 years at Electronic arts- in the early days of his career he was responsible for 3Rash (THRASH) a D3D and Glide rendering engine used in most of the older PC sports and racing titles from Electronic Arts. Later Daniel moved on to XBOX development and was the lead engineer on EAGL XBOX- EAGL was a cross platform rendering engine at EA used in over 80 titles across sports, racing, and fps genres (covering the PC, GC, PS2, XBOX, Wii and PSP platforms). After 5+ years working on rendering engines Daniel joined "Team Fusion" to work on various PSP, Wii, 360 and PS3 titles in various roles including Lead Programmer and Technical Director. The last 2 years Daniel was the Group Technical Director for Fusion and oversaw the technical planning and direction of the NHL, Tennis and EA Sports Active franchises.
Daniel has since moved on to Microsoft and is currently a Development Manager in the Microsoft Game Studios group working on a large unannounced title.
Credited on 58 games
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| Sea of Thieves (2018, Xbox One) | Team Xbox |
| Halo 5: Forge (2016, Windows Apps) | Lead Engineer |
| Halo 5: Guardians (2015, Xbox One) | Engine & Tools Engineering Lead |
| Project Spark (2014, Xbox One) | Development Manager |
| Xbox Fitness (2013, Xbox One) | Development Director |
| Nike+ Kinect Training (2012, Xbox 360) | Development Manager |
| Grand Slam Tennis (2009, Wii) | Group Technical Director |
| EA Sports Active (2009, Wii) | Group Technical Director |
| Celebrity Sports Showdown (2008, Wii) | Group Technical Director |
| Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 (2007, Wii) | Technical Director |
| FIFA Soccer 08 (2007, Nintendo DS) | Technical Director |
| Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City (2006, Game Boy Advance) | Technical Director |
| Medal of Honor: Heroes (2006, PSP) | Technical Director |
| FIFA Soccer 07 (2006, Nintendo DS) | Technical Director |
| Fight Night Round 3 (2006, PSP) | Technical Director |
| FIFA Soccer 07 (2006, Game Boy Advance) | Technical Director |
| Need for Speed: Most Wanted 5-1-0 (2005, PSP) | Technical Director |
| Madden NFL 06 (2005, PSP) | Additional Technology Direction |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour (2005, PSP) | Lead Programmer |
| Tiger Woods PGA Tour (2004, Nintendo DS) | Special Thanks |
[ full credits ]
Graphics Software Engineer
Electronic Arts Canada
Frequent Collaborators
People- 31 games with Frank Barchard
- 30 games with Beverly Koeckeritz
- 30 games with David Mercier
- 27 games with Peter Petkov
- 25 games with Bob Purewal
- 24 games with Benjamin Crick
- 24 games with Darryl Jenkins
- 24 games with Dave Knudson
- 23 games with Andrew Young
- 22 games with Brian Oberquell
Companies
- 49 games with Electronic Arts, Inc.
- 34 games with EA Sports
- 31 games with Electronic Arts Vancouver
- 17 games with Electronic Arts Publishing SARL
- 15 games with Electronic Arts GmbH
- 14 games with Electronic Arts Ltd.
- 13 games with TiVo Corporation
- 8 games with Fédération Internationale...
- 7 games with Electronic Arts K.K.
- 6 games with NBA Properties, Inc.
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