May Oakes

May Oakes is a game developer and software engineer. She currently works for Retro Studios, where she was hired in August 2019. She was promoted to Tools Engineer II in March 2022, and she was one of the engineers for Metroid Prime Remastered.
Oakes joined Retro after the announcement that Metroid Prime 4 was being shifted back to Retro Studios after its initial developer's work did not meet Nintendo's expectations. In the summer of 2022, Oakes briefly acknowledged she was working on the game on LinkedIn, saying that she developed tools to address content pipeline challenges specific to Prime 4. She has since removed this from her profile.SuperMetalDave64. [NEW Metroid Prime 4 Updates: Retro Studios Developer Reveals New Info + Big PS5 Dev Joins The Team! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jUK28a581A]. YouTube. August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 15, 2022. (starts at 5:21)
Oakes previously worked for the Eye-Com Corporation, Desert Research Institute and Everi Holdings Inc., creating imagery for eye-tracking software, supporting scientific researchers and programming gameplay.
==Trivia==
*On Twitter, Oakes mentioned discovering the Special Charge Beam Attacks in Super Metroid twenty years later.Oakes, May (animeoakes). "My whole world has been turned on its head. 20 years and I never knew you could select power bombs, turn on charge beam and one other beam, and then charge for a special attack 😮" 8 September 2019 5:16 p.m. Tweet. https://twitter.com/animeoakes/status/1170808177996251137 She also highlighted a fan walkthrough website set up for the game that was still running as of 2010.Oakes, May (animeoakes). "I'm playing through Super Metroid and this walkthrough seems like it's almost as old as the game and I'm impressed they're still keeping it up. http://supermetroidguide.com" 8 September 2019 12:56 p.m. Tweet. https://twitter.com/animeoakes/status/1170742648216403968
==External links==
*Oakes on LinkedIn
*Oakes on Twitter
*Oakes on GitHub
==Gallery==
May Oakes name in credits.jpg|Oakes' name in the Remastered credits.May Oakes (animeoakes). "surreal" 13 February 2023 10:08 a.m. Tweet. https://twitter.com/animeoakes/status/1625149811920871425
==References==
Category:Retro Studios employees
Category:Programmers