NetDevil

Havok AI gave us an advanced Nav Mesh solution in a short cycle with absolutely great support. Rolling our own solution would have cost us more in time and resources, and increased risk for our project. I can’t really see a better choice for us than using Havok™AI.

—Chris Sherland, Lead Producer, LEGO Universe, NetDevil, Ltd.

Ubisoft

Havok’s technology delivers convincing performance and physical interactivity in Assassin Creed II’s massive game world, allowing players to fluidly navigate the Italian Renaissance environment while enjoying breathtaking views and full freedom of control. We were impressed with what we could do. Assassin’s Creed II is an incredible game.

—Pierre Escaich, Studio Operations Director, Ubisoft

Platinum

Our vision was to create action on a scale that was unlike anything that has come before. With Havok's proven technology, our development team in Japan was able to create the exciting and dynamic world in VANQUISH. Using Havok [Physics and Havok Animation] we were able to scale the interaction up to unprecedented levels and push gaming consoles right to their limits.

—Atsushi Inaba, Executive Producer and Director, PlatinumGames

Codemasters

Havok’s integrated character and physics technology allowed us to explore a range of new ideas and features for the characters and environments within Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. Thanks to Havok’s technology and dedicated customer support, paired with our proprietary EGO development platform, we were able to create the game’s gritty, modern war experience with remarkable effectiveness.

—Sion Lenton, Executive Producer, Codemasters

Pandemic Studios

Havok is an essential ingredient in what makes our games great. By consistently integrating the Behavior tools across our projects, our teams are instantly empowered to take their creativity to the next level. Games like Mercenaries 2: World in Flames™ and Saboteur™ simply wouldn’t pack the same punch without Havok under the hood.

—Josh Resnick, Co-founder and General Manager, Pandemic Studios

7studios

The Havok Behavior tool provided the Six Flags® Fun Park™ development team an opportunity to be creative while simultaneously streamlining the overall production process.

—Lewis Peterson, Chief Executive Officer, 7 Studios

Turbine

We needed an art tool that allows our artists to quickly generate and visualize high quality cloth assets to enrich the Xbox 360™ and PLAYSTATION®3 environmental and character experiences. We have used Havok’s software products in several of our Triple-A titles and Havok Cloth was the clear choice.

—Christopher Dyl, Chief Technology Officer, Turbine

Freestyle

Havok Cloth’s animation tool set has allowed our artists the ability to control and replicate more authentic looking movement into DJ Hero. As a result, players are able to experience even more interactive and unique visuals.

—Jamie Jackson, Creative Director at FreeStyleGames

THQ

The modular design of Havok Cloth enabled us to get the technology successfully integrated quickly and easily. Havok’s technical support was excellent, and the highly intuitive and powerful art tools allow artists to quickly generate and visualize high quality cloth assets. Our overall experience with Havok Cloth on UFC 2009 Undisputed has been very positive so we intend to use Havok Cloth even more extensively in THQ’s upcoming fighting titles.

—Colin Mack, General Manager Wrestling & Fighting Games, THQ

Saber

With the use of Havok’s Destruction module we have the ability to break things in all new ways that give us a much deeper player immersion. Havok’s Destruction gives us the ability to bring down whole buildings and destroy things in more believable ways, such as shooting a tire off a car, or a door, or a hood, or incrementally destroying the whole automobile.

—Rick Raymo, Director of Game Content, Saber Interactive

DICE

DICE has a long standing partnership with Havok and we have extensively used Havok Physics on a wide range of titles and prototypes during that time. We have now made the decision to use Havok Destruction technology in Battlefield 3. DICE has been impressed by Havok’s suite of cross platform tools for the simulation of rigid body destruction. We have found that Havok Destruction gives our Art team total control over the simulation, drastically reducing production time and the cost of creating large numbers of interactive destructible objects.

—Torbjörn Söderman, Technical Director, DICE

Massive

Havok is one of the key pieces of technology which allowed us to make everything in World in Conflict dynamic and destructible. The engine's excellence in robustness and performance is paired with world class support.

—Niklas Westberg, Technical Director, Massive Entertainment

Bungie Studios

Havok's flexibility and ease of use have made it one of our cornerstone development tools and almost a recognizable 'character' within the Halo 3 engine. Its elegance and scalability mean that it adds features and value to our engine, and yet integrates seamlessly without impacting performance.

—Eamon McKenzie, Physics Engineer, Bungie Studios

Cat Daddy Games

The Havok physics engine in Carnival Games doesn’t just make things look good—it’s an essential part of game play. Havok’s rigid body dynamics, including collision detection, allow us to build experiences for the player that are as realistic and fun as possible. Such things as bottles collapsing and falling in the Milk Bottle Throw, and bowling balls spinning and rolling in Bowler Coaster, all leverage rigid body dynamics.

—Harley Howe, Chief Executive Officer, Cat Daddy Games

Idol Minds

Before using Havok, we wrote scrapped and rewrote our physics system at least 3 times. Havok was easy to integrate into our engine and pipeline and is more powerful, flexible and efficient than any of our attempts had been. We have no future plans to do a project without Havok. Havok allowed us to stop spending time on core physics and concentrate on taking the physics and making it fun.

—Mark Lyons, Director of Technology, Idol Minds

MS

We’re excited to be working with [Havok Script] to help our Studios deliver the highest quality products through iteration... we look forward to what our teams can deliver together.

—Jason Mangold, Business Manager, Microsoft Game Studios

Gas Powered Games

[Havok Script] solves many of the pain points with Lua (memory, performance, GC, debugging, profiling, etc) and allows us to maximize the benefits of implementing a scripting solution.

—James Loe, Principle Engineer, Gas Powered Games

Sega of America

We’re excited to be working with [Havok Script] not only because today’s product hits the nail on the head regarding enabling designer driven scripting in game development, but equally exciting in Kore’s longer term product road map that gives me confidence we are working with THE thought leaders in this space.

—Chris Southall, CTO, Sega of America

The Creative Assembly

Scripting is a key element to modern game design. If you’re using script, you’d be crazy not to use [Havok Script].

—Artem Kulakov, CTO, The Creative Assembly

Lionhead Studios

Scripting is a vital tool, massively reducing iteration time. [Havok Script] enables this with the best performance we’ve seen to date.

—Tim Rance, CTO, Lionhead Studios

Relic Entertainment

Havok has always offered exceptional support to the Space Marine team. The recent expansion into engine optimization has made Havok an even more valuable partner. Havok’s low-level platform expertise enabled for an immediate impact on our engine.

—Jerry Edsall, Principal Engineer, Relic Entertainment

Remedy

Since we started using Havok Physics, their support has been very well organized and professional and they have helped the Remedy team a lot during the physics engine integration. We have achieved a high degree of customization in a short time-frame while implementing widespread collision detection and character controllers for the game. We are very happy with the performance, too, and the integration of new features is generally easy. We are confident that Havok will save us lots of time and money further down the road. So far we are only scratching its very surface.

—Markus Stein, Remedy

2K Marin

We chose Havok due to the ease of integration into our existing BioShock 2 code across multiple platforms. The Havok team also provided terrific support as we implemented their technology to enable immersive and realistic game play.

—Alyssa Finley, Executive Producer of Bioshock 2, 2K Marin

Ubisoft

Havok is a professional organization from its engineering and support to sales and contracts. We’ve always appreciated Havok's willingness to listen and work with us on serious and sophisticated commercial and technical issues. Havok goes the extra mile to understand the complexities of our business and the challenges development teams face.

—Pierre Escaich, Studio Operations Director, Ubisoft

Turbine

By incorporating Havok technologies into our development process at Turbine, our creative teams can focus on what’s important to our players: better gameplay and rich, organic characters and worlds. Havok’s easy code integration and implementation, and its high level of customer support will provide Turbine with the tools we need to maintain the continued success of our current and future titles.

—Chris Dyl, Turbine

Lexis

Havok has long been considered the premier physics engine in the AAA games space. We are delighted that Havok has listened to the needs of the game development community and designed a solution that allows the “budget conscious” developer to take advantage of their products as well. Havok is not only the best technical solution, but also a great business partner. We look forward to creating many wonderful games with help from Havok.

—Jose Sanchis, Managing Director, Lexis Numerique

Cohort

A key part of Cohort's business strategy revolves around the concept of 'Partners in Development' - working together with other key players in the games industry to help manage cost and risk. With this in mind, we're extremely excited to have joined Havok's Independent Developer Program. By gaining access to Havok's entire suite of technologies, we'll be able to turn around concept demos and prototypes in much shorter timescales, at less financial risk, and expand our cross-platform expertise in the process.

—Lol Scragg, CEO, Cohort Studios

Moving Picture Company

Dynamic simulation is becoming an increasingly important part of our production pipeline, with directors and audiences demanding greater realism and more complex interaction. We have chosen Havok as the basis for our in-house physics system. Havok's collision system is extremely fast and stable, allowing us to simulate large numbers of objects with relative ease, making it possible to achieve results that would have been nearly impossible without it.

—Ben Cole, Software Engineer, Moving Picture Company

Sony Ericsson

Xperia™ PLAY is not only a fantastic smartphone on the latest Android™ platform, it also offers the best mobile gaming experience available. We are very pleased to be working with Havok to bring new levels of cinematic and immersive gaming experiences, never before seen on smartphones, to the Android™ platform.

— Steve Walker, Head of Marketing, Sony Ericsson

Remedy

Alan Wake is a new experience in gaming, merging realistic animation with interactive game play on a scale not seen before. Havok Physics was deeply integrated into our tool chain and in-house engine to maximize its full potential. By harnessing the full power of the Xbox 360 hardware, our engine and Havok’s solution allows us to deliver fully on our ambition for Alan Wake. We’re confident gamers will be enthralled as they unlock the mysteries of Bright Falls and explore Alan Wake’s intriguing surroundings.

—Markus Mäki, Development Director, Remedy

LucasArts

Using the Havok Physics system allows us amp up the force in unexpected ways in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed—it’s an important part of our focus on the simulation-based gameplay rather than relying solely on reactions.

— Haden Blackman, Project Lead, LucasArts

The Havok Team

With offices in Ireland, the U.S., Canada, Asia and Southern Germany, Havok is made up of a diverse group of people who are passionate about the games and entertainment industry, love what we do, and work hard doing it. We strive to push the boundaries of game development technology and deliver the highest quality of support and services to our customers. We work closely with the most renowned development teams in the industry and take pride in knowing that our customers have come to expect an exceptional level of quality and commitment from our team.

Leaders

David Coghlan — Managing Director

David Coghlan is Havok’s Managing Director responsible for Havok’s overall strategic direction and growth. David joined Havok in 2004 and during his Havok career has held a number of senior operational roles and served on the Board of Directors.

Prior to joining Havok, David was Director of Corporate Strategy for Elan Corporation, a NYSE-listed biotechnology company. David qualified as an accountant in the audit and business advisory group of international firm KPMG, and he holds a degree in Finance from Trinity College, Dublin.

Brian Waddle — Vice President Worldwide Sales and Marketing

Brian is responsible for leading Havok's global sales and marketing strategies. Brian has over 20 years of management experience and a history of sales success and he led Havok’s sales team during the most successful year of sales in the company’s history.

Prior to Havok Brian was Senior Vice President at Image Metrics, a facial animation technology and services company. Brian also participated in the growth of household name-brand consumer products at Scotts Miracle Gro LLC (NYSE: SMG) and the company went from a $200 million private entity to a $2.7 billion public corporation during his tenure. Brian is a graduate of California State University Sacramento and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing.

Felix Roeken — Vice President of International Development

Felix Roeken is Havok’s Vice President of International Development, and is responsible for overseeing Havok’s strategy and development within international markets. Prior to joining Havok, Felix co-founded Vulpine GmbH, a game technology corporation where he established successful world-wide market and sales activities. Felix also served as General Manager for Trinigy, a leading firm in the field of 3D Game Engines recently acquired by Havok, where he oversaw the company's strategy, finances, sales and marketing affairs. He holds a degree in banking and finance from Deutsche Bank AG.

Andrew Bond — Vice President, Technology

Andrew Bond is one of the founding Havok engineers, and is responsible for Havok's technical strategy and product direction. During his career Andrew led the development of Havok Physics and has been involved in the design and architecture of many of Havok's other products. Andrew is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and holds a Master’s degree in Computer Graphics.

Dave Gargan — Vice President, Engineering

Dave Gargan is Havok’s Vice President of Engineering overseeing and managing Havok’s engineering teams worldwide, each specifically focused on one of Havok’s cutting edge products. Dave was a founding engineer of Havok and during his career at Havok has designed and led the development of a number of products including Havok Animation and Havok AI. Prior to joining Havok, Dave was a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Trinity College.

Ross O’Dwyer — Worldwide Head of Developer Support

Ross O’Dwyer is responsible for overseeing Havok’s worldwide Developer Support function. During his career in Havok, Ross held a number of customer-facing technical roles before assuming responsibility for the overall management of the Developer relations teams across each of the Havok global locations. Ross is a graduate of University College Dublin with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Statistics and a Higher Diploma in Computer Science.

Andrew Bowell — Head of Product Management

As Head of Product Management, Andrew Bowell brings over 14 years of technology experience to Havok, where he is responsible for managing Havok’s product line from planning to execution. Andrew works closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenues and customer satisfaction goals are met, and that Havok’s products support the company’s overall strategy and objectives. Since joining Havok in 2000, Andrew has held various roles including Regional Sales Manager for Europe, Pre-sales Engineer, and Product Engineer. Prior to joining Havok, Andrew was an IT Consultant where he served London and New York areas. Andrew received undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from Trinity College in Dublin.

Jane Cullen — Worldwide HR Manager

As Havok’s HR Manager, Jane Cullen is responsible for Havok’s worldwide HR operations. With over 9 years of human resource management experience, Jane works closely with Havok’s management team to support and develop Havok’s employee base. Prior to joining Havok, Jane served a number of HR specialist roles in high-tech companies, including Creative Labs and Hewlett Packard in Dublin. Jane is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and graduated from the National College of Ireland with a specialist degree in Human Resource Management.

Andrew Callanan — Group Financial Controller

As Group Financial Controller, Andrew Callanan brings over 14 years of high-growth, multi-national financial experience to Havok, where he is responsible overseeing the company’s global financial operations. Prior to joining Havok, Andrew established and led the European Financial Operations of ServiceSource, a San Francisco-based software and business services company. Andrew has also held several finance roles at Microsoft Corporation, including Controller of the Nordic Entertainment Division in Stockholm, and FP&A Manager of European Operations in Dublin. He is a Chartered Accountant and began his career as an auditor at Ernst & Young. Andrew received his B.B.S in Finance & Economics from Trinity College Dublin and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accounts in Ireland.

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