Daniel Wiksten Email & Phone Number

Stockholm

Unannounced First Person Shooter (Playstation 5, Not Released) - Final Strike Games• Weapon handling and aim assist systems in C++• Various character abilities and balancingScavengers (PC) - Midwinter Entertainment• Implemented weapon and combat systems in C++• Designed and implemented player and AI characters abilities and weapons

Stockholm, Sweden

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (Xbox One, PS4, PC)• Weapon and combat design• Character class and abilities design• NOT in charge of progression and monetization

Redmond, Wa

Halo 5: Guardians (Xbox One)• Ultimate responsibility for all weapons and balancing.• Designed and implemented new features such as Smart Scope, weapon customization etc.• Managing a team of vehicle and character designers.

Los Angeles

Medal of Honor: Warfighter / Zero Dark Thirty (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)• Created Multiplayer concept and pitched game design documents• Designed and managed implementation of player classes, abilities and support actions• Vehicle and weapon design and implementation• Player progression design

Mercenaries 3: No Limits [unreleased] (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)• Managed a cross disciplinary team using the Agile Methodology.• Led combat design and player mechanics.• Micro and macro economicsLord of the Rings: Conquest (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)Lord of the Rings: Conquest - DLC: Heroes and Maps pack (Xbox 360, PS3)• Combat design and balancing.• Designed and implemented the move sets and abilities of player classes, monsters plus the 18 hero characters.

• Managed the game development team consisting of 10 gameplay engineers.• Developed online skill based flash games for clients as MSN, Yahoo!, AOL, NBC etc.• Launched new IPs and gameplay mechanics.

• Planned the curriculum and held lectures in Game Design courses.• Courses included; Idea Generation, Storytelling, Project management, Game Balancing, Game Architecture and Level Design.

Battlefield 2 (PC)• Prototyped new gameplay mechanics including squad and commander abilities.• Singleplayer campaign prototyping.• Additional level design.• Engineered Maya plug-ins and Mel scripts to improve the animation pipeline.• Programmed tools for the Mod community.

Knights of the Temple (Xbox, PS2, GC)• Programmed dynamic camera and scripted camera system used by level designers.• Responsible engineer for combat and magic system for all characters in the game.

• Designed and developed business applications.• Educated senior engineers in object orientated programming.• Developed web applications using relational databases.