James Steele

James Steele is a former senior software engineer at Nintendo of Europe. He provided technical support for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate, Metroid: Samus Returns and Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle. Steele worked at NOE from June 2010 to April 2018. His responsibilities at NOE included providing support for developers, providing optimization help and advice for implementing games on Nintendo systems, organizing and participating in workshops for third-party developers and writing technical white papers.

Notably, Steele worked at Core Design, the creators of the Tomb Raider franchise, for two years in the early 2000s. He is currently the senior engine programmer at id Software.