Bob Hess Email & Phone Number

I am currently working on Dungeons and Dragons Online as a content developer.

I am currently working on Lord of the Rings Online, creating multiplayer dungeon content.Responsibilities include: Creation of instance encounters, region content, updating and modernizing existing content, and encounter design.• Creating a series of instances for several content updates including a 3-man dungeons, and a Raid encounter.• Creating new quest-arcs in new regions for periodic updates and the Minas Morgul expansion pack.• Creating small instance encounters as part of region design for more tailored story driven encounters.

Needham, Massachusetts, Us

Responsibilities include: Creation of a several dungeons for releases, overhauling several existing dungeon spaces for use in an updated festival, provided itemization support for several releases.• Creating a series of dungeons for several content updates. This included everything from initial dungeon layout and shell construction, dungeon decoration and lighting, encounter design, encounter scripting, and creature creation. • Creating a new festival using existing dungeon spaces, retrofitting several dungeon spaces using scaling technology and altering them to fit within the new festival theme and format.• Responsible for coordinating with several developers as part of on-going itemization work as part of the scheduled releases.

Aliso Viejo, Us

Responsibilities include: Design and implementation of raid and dungeon encounters, Design and implementation of creature skills and abilities.• Creating several types of content including dungeon encounters, raid encounters, and an introductory dungeon for new players.• Coordinating a small group of developers in creating a new low level, introductory dungeon experience, highlighting skills that players need to utilize to succeed in end game content. • Creating combat packages for monsters in Wildstar including several world bosses and many of the commonly found landscape creatures. • Assisted in creating the pipeline in which the creature combat team rebuilt the skills of all the landscape monsters for launch in an abbreviated timeframe.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Responsibilities include: Creation of dynamic encounters, building a new player tutorial initiative, updating and establish a content pipeline, and encounter design.• Creating several types of content including world encounters, regional encounters, and the new player tutorial. • Evaluating and providing feedback on the on-going effort to introduce new content and systems to a rapidly evolving project.• Coordinating content creation with several designers, as a point person for external departments to determine scheduling for milestones.• Responsible for learning and implementing dynamic encounters using a new LUA encounter creation API.

Needham, Massachusetts, Us

Responsibilities include: Creation of instance encounters, region content, updating and modernizing existing content, and encounter design.• Creating a series of instances for several content updates including a 3-man dungeon, a 6-man dungeon, and a skirmish encounter.• Creating new quest-arcs in new regions for periodic updates and the Siege of Mirkwood and Rise of Isengard expansion pack.• Creating small instance encounters as part of region design for more tailored story driven encounters.• Responsible for redesigning quests as part of an on-going initiative to improve the user experience during content that was implemented early in the lifetime of the product.

Needham, Massachusetts, Us

Associate Systems Designer - Dungeons and Dragons Online December 2007 to March 2009Responsibilities included: Creating reward systems for content updates, spell creation, item effect creation, and several new system implementations.• Created magic items and item effects as quest and raid rewards for live updates and the free to play launch.• Created reward systems to be used as part of a random treasure system that encouraged player replay through several pieces of content.• Created Design specifications for future item expansion for epic level rewards.• Participated and contributed in a series of system design discussions that shaped the free to play initiative.