Game || Level Designer

Selected Works

"Game Design...The Game(?)"

First-Person Narrative Puzzle Adventure

Game Design...The Game(?) is a game about the steps of game and level design. It's puzzles are designed to tell the story of game development through the game play.
Role: Game designer (sole developer)
Team size: 1
Tools Used: Unreal Engine 4, Maya
Development Time: 6 weeks
Gameplay Duration: 45 min - 1 hr
Highlights:
  • Narrative supported by game play and game play supported by narrative
  • Designed 4 complex puzzles and many minor puzzles
  • Dynamic dialogue that triggers blueprints scripted game-play events
  • Mission Pacing: designed to temper frustration with reward
  • Levels built around denial and reward
  • Satisfying surprise ending

Artifacts II

First-Person Narrative

Artifacts II is a surreal narrative game about personal discovery and trauma.
Role: Game designer (sole developer)
Team size: 1
Tools Used: Unreal Engine 4, 3DS Max, Substance Painter, Zbrush
Development Time: 9 Months
Gameplay Duration: 30 min - 45 min
Highlights:
  • Multi-award winning game (Indiecade, SAAM, IGDA...)
  • Original genre-defying game design, combination of RPG, walking sim, horror, and survival
  • Emotional storytelling through game play
  • Compelling, imaginative environments and level design

Unannounced Virtual Reality Game

Medical VR

Role: Game designer and Level Designer
Team size: 20
Tools Used: Unreal Engine 4, Maya, Word, Photoshop, Illustrator
Development time: 3 Months (my portions of the project)


Highlights:
  • Designed, pitched, and created level that introduced players to the game's world
  • Created design tools for artists, animators, and designers in UE4
  • Wrote, distributed, and archived extensive design documentation
  • Playtested in hospital setting and recorded notes for sharing with team
  • Built friendly, motion responsive AI

Platformer Level Design Study

Third-Person Traversal/Platformer

Level design study focused on fast paced exciting traversal, scenic overlooks, and scripted action.
Role: Level Designer
Team size: 1
Tools Used: Unreal Engine 4, Maya
Development Time: 1 week
Gameplay Duration: 15 min
Highlights:
  • Expressive, imaginative blockmesh
  • Fast-paced, thrilling, combat level that ends in boss battle
  • 6 scripted action areas
  • Pacing controlled with points of interests, vistas, and combat

Effigy

First-Person Narrative Puzzle Horror

Effigy is a walking sim horror game about burning memories.
Role: Game Designer and Sole Developer
Team size: 1
Tools Used: Unreal Engine 4, Maya, Substance Painter
Development Time: 3 weeks
Gameplay Duration: 15 - 30min
Highlights:
  • Narrative driven game with tight, frequent scripting
  • Pacing that balances unease and fear with the drive to explore
  • Use of complex interfaces and game mode to drive scripted events and game-play interactions
  • Implemented and customized inventory system asset
  • Performed rapid prototyping combined with frequent play-testing in a tight feedback loop for final resulting game

Breathe

First-Person Puzzle Horror

Breathe is a game that's living with anxiety.
Role: Game Designer and Sole Developer
Team size: 1
Tools Used: Unreal Engine 4, 3DS Max, Substance Painter
Development Time: 4 weeks
Gameplay Duration: 15 - 30min
Highlights:
  • Linear, narrative driven game with tight, frequent scripting
  • Pacing that balances unease and fear with the drive to explore
  • Performed rapid prototyping combined with frequent play-testing in a tight feedback loop for final resulting game

Final Flight

Arcade Style On-Rails Shooter

Final Flight is surreal shoot-em-up about blowing up aliens, buildings, eggs, trees, and everything else!
Role: Level Designer, Environment Artist, and Co-lead Designer
Team size: 6
Tools Used: Unreal Engine 4, 3DS Max, Substance Painter, Zbrush
Development time: 16 weeks
Gameplay Duration: 15 min
Highlights:
  • Designed action-packed, exciting, shoot-em-up levels
  • led art team in aesthetic feel for game
  • Playtested with industry professionals and balanced game for arcade-like difficulty
  • Studied similar games (such as Panzer Dragoon) and designed gameplay from research

Artifacts I

3rd Person Exploration

Artifacts is a game about exploring the remnants of the early 2000's internet in a future parallel dimension with a rabbit-scorpion-rottweiler named Gimpy.
Role: Game Designer and Sole Developer
Team size: 1
Tools Used: Unreal Engine 4, Maya, Substance Painter
Development Time: 4 weeks
Duration: 15 min
Highlights:
  • Designed, sculpted, and rigged original character
  • Built level around character's design and unique traits
  • Partial open world that encourages playful exploration
  • Experimental visual style
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