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On The Blockchain, Oo

Sole game designer creating multiple metaverse / blockchain games in the Unreal engine. Acted as a temporary project manager & art department producer until the positions could be filled. Designed game mechanics & equipment design, unit design & powers, combat design & level design, GDD creation & upkeep, roadmap creation. Mentored artists in level design for gameplay & player psychology.

Successfully launched a D&D spell reference cards company (physical cards & mobile app), rewrote 200 D&D spells to be easier to read, and organized like a video game or websiteCreated all card UX design, card art concepts, app design, artist management, website development, social media campaign, business management, legal / artist contracts / company taxes.

Sole designer responsible for multiple game titles at a gambling industry game company. GDD creation, game mechanics & player abilities design, unit design & powers / abilities, Unity level design, 3D Max level design creation, C# scripting, design monetization systems to keep players hooked and feeling rewarded.

Game designer, level designer, and project manager for an indie game company, while getting an AA programming degree and running a separate entrepreneurial business. Gained more experience in C# programming. Directed and co-collaborated with programmers and artists.

Co-created 7 diverse factions (Celts, Persians, etc) for Age of Empires: Online. Including story arcs, mission arcs, unit design, hero abilities & tuning, tutorial missions, Civ-specific game modes, quest giver dialogue, and equipment descriptions.Created 3 PvE game modes. Most notable was an invasion mode that required extremely careful strategic avenues of attack & defense, resource locations and amounts, and tuning 12 difficulty levels for 7 factions, on 13 very different map designs. Responsible for final approval of fun & functionality of 80 missions. Created 150+ missions & associated level designs, level design & LUA scripting for 8 cities, used C# & LUA to create the logic for 5 factions.Co-designed passive abilities a faction can "equip" to change player strategy (name: Civ Techs), co-designed Civ Tech unlock trees and Civ Tech tuning. Mentored and co-managed 3 junior game designers, participated in roadmap creation & inter-departmental planning, triaged & fixed roughly 3000 bugs.

• Game testing for PC & Console for RTS title: Supreme Commander 2.• Production Assistant• Sound Design for videos and E3 trailers for unreleased project.(Demo video: https://goo.gl/PCEvzq)

Tester and Test Lead roles for 6+ AAA titles such as Halo 3, Gears of War 2, Forza 3, Fable 2.QA on 80 smaller Xbox 360 & PC titles.Exposed to dozens of proprietary tools, game engines, and design methodologies.----Halo 3 QA multiplayer tester responsible for multiplayer gameplay functionality, vehicle & weapon testing, matchmaking functionality & performance, forge functionality, telemetry & player data mining, and audio / VOIP.

Aa Information Systems, Scripting & Coding

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Audio Engineering, Midi Music

Hs Diploma