Amy West Email & Phone Number

British Columbia, Canada

Mission Design & Scripting • Created three critical path mission experiences from concept to shippable quality• Coordinated with other departments to develop, shape, and refine content from documentation to prototype through to a polished playable experience• Designed and iterated on combat encounters and unique puzzles• Pivoted and adjusted content to accommodate cuts and evolving project needs• Worked alongside management to structure goals and continued developing my skills• Provided constructive feedback to peers, and adjusted content from received feedbackContent Ownership• Expanded responsibilities to full content ownership after eight months • Maintained and created documentation for encounter and mission development processes for team coordination and communication• Structured and pitched solutions for holes in player experience/expectations to management and leadership

Nanaimo, Bc

• Receiving/unpacking stock, merchandising and shelving to standard, handling returns, and contributing to keeping our time, efficiency, and accuracy averages above 90%• Opening and closing cash procedures, cash transactions utilizing till and an on-floor checkout system, customer order receiving, and upselling our membership with a 10% average daily success rate.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Spirit Immemorial is a third-person walking simulator created in Unreal with a team of 4 where, in the shoes of Private Investigator Ember Everstar, you search for objects containing the memories lost by loveable knight, Ser AndersLevel Designer:• Achieved design goals by creating distinct levels that encouraged curiosity and drove discovery• Designed 2D layouts, whitebox, and set dress all levels• Coordinated with environment artist to ensure world cohesiveness; worked in passes on lighting, post processing, area ambience, and overall compositionTools:• Unreal Engine• Adobe PhotoshopNarrative Designer• Created core storyline and overall game tone; iterated with character artist to align narrative to artistic vision • Drove creative process from initial design concept through to project completion• Developed overall pipeline from script generation to engine adaption needs, from formatting and dialogue flow requirements to UI expectations• Wrote scripts for all core gameplay interactions, generic NPC’s, passive dialogue, voiced character lines, general dialogue options, and trailer voice over• Prioritized feedback and edited all content (substantive, line, and copy edit)Tools:• Twine• Final Draft• MS Excel CSV• MS Word Project Manager• Achieved vision for the game utilizing limited resources within a condensed timeline• Completed milestones on time through remote coordinating technologies • Built and owned team schedules, held regular meetings with external collaborators, scheduled/organized/directed audio recording sessions, organized external play tests• Held daily/weekly coordination meetings through Discord and Zoom Tools:• Excel• Google Sheets• Pivotal Tracker• Discord/Zoom

Cognition is a third-person, 2.5D puzzle game created in Unity by a team of 4 exploring a journey through the juxtaposition of colour and greyscale as the main character uses their telekinetic ability to solve environmental puzzles, collect the broken pieces of their inner compass, and arrive at her destinationProject Manager• Built and owned team schedule• Organized and ran daily stand-ups• Called regular design/coordination meetings• Audio acquisition and implementation• Conflict managementLevel Design• Planned each area’s key environmental puzzles, • Whiteboxed and iterated on all levels per team and playtester feedback• Coordinated with team to keep game vision in alignment with gameplay goalsTools:• Unity• Unity ProBuilder• Adobe Photoshop• MS Excel• Google Sheets• Google Docs

Nanaimo, Bc

• Product knowledge and promotion, truck unloading, tech support and troubleshooting, specialty product assembly, store transfers and assisted ordering, and inter-department/inter-store communication

Diploma - Honours, Game Design, Won Best Game, Best Story, And Best Level Design

Activities and Societies: Class rep for the GD59 intake

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Creative Writing, Deans List 2011-2016

Assistant Acquisitions Editor and Published Contributor to Portal Magazine

Education record