Ben Schofield Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Bellevue, Washington, Us

•Took ownership of event-based, randomized loot effect gameplay system within a broader ECS architecture, refactoring for greater flexibility for designers as well as to avoid systemic pitfalls•Collaborated with designers to quickly and creatively adapt legacy systems to implement new features•Touched a wide swath of systems as needs arose: optimizing nav mesh regeneration, greyboxing UI, investigating frame optimization, adding networked multiplayer cheats for QA, and more

Unannounced Action RPG•Built data-driven, server-authoritative inventory system with gameplay, UI, and animation for vertical slice•Worked with the Gameplay Ability System, CommonUI, Enhanced Input, Blueprints, and moreRisk of Rain 2•Implemented majority of new content, including dozens of new items, new playable characters, new enemies (and an alternate final boss), new achievements, new combat skills, and new interactables•Updated the gamemode system and added a new highly modular, wave-based gamemode

Seattle, Washington, Us

Unannounced Prototype (2016-2020)•After proving core gameplay with a paper prototype, I leveraged existing client and server architecture to prototype a networked, PvP Collectible Card Game in my spare time•Built data-driven systems for rapid iteration on design of gameplay and over 100 cards•Scheduled internal playtests regularly, gathering data via observation, survey, and server-side Slack integration to capture full game replays, which I then analyzed with an automated scriptUnannounced Title (2019-2020)•Identified missing core systems and gained engineering consensus to design their interfaces•Implemented component-based quest system for flexibility with future design pivots•Partnered closely with design to foresee potential issues and solve them before they manifestDeep Sea Solitaire (2018-2019)•Refactored core Solitaire gameplay logic to improve maintainability•Implemented several different periodic reward systems to improve player retention•Recognizing that puzzle gameplay makes churn points hard to predict, I led a week-long investigation into using Machine Learning to more accurately model player skill per player segmentLet's Dish (2015-2018)•Maintained Match 3 gameplay code through multiple major design pivots in a tight timeframe•Collaborated with designers to develop a server-authoritative, randomized reward system•Delivered major releases to a live player base, migrating player data from version to versionPanda Pandamonium (2013-2015)•Designed a new obstacle puzzle mechanic, several puzzle levels, and an AI to generate levels•Supported live product through multiple updates, via both app store and over-the-air dataMystery Case Files: Shadow Lake (2012-2012)•Joining the team as the only engineer halfway through the development cycle, I collaborated with the designer and artists to create 13 puzzles and minigames, meeting an unmovable deadline for release

Redmond, Wa, Us

• Helping students with 3D computer graphics programming topics including 3D graphics pipeline, linear algebra, z-buffering, and culling • Grading and debugging programming assignments for over 50 students

• Developed client’s idea of a timing-based skill game into a complete concept and detailed it in a GDD• Created majority of gameplay and menus using the Impact JavaScript Game Engine