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Santa Monica, California, United States

Santa Monica, California, United States

Santa Monica, CA

Irvine, CA

• Design and balance compelling card game mechanics that create unique tensions and gameplay decisions
• Construct a sandbox of synergies and anti-synergies across the games card library to make deck building meaningful
• Develop an in-game economy for exchanging gameplay experience for cosmetics and other in-game items while balancing for microtransactions

Irvine, CA

• Code the user interface and combat engine using client-side web technologies like Angular and Pixi.js, built natively using Electron
• Build a robust server-side architecture with Node.js that supports clustering for horizontal scalability, MongoDB for storing persistence game objects, Socket IO for real-time player interactions, and Redis for memory.
• Create an administration back-end with a CRUD API and User Interface to manipulate gameplay objects on the fly for rapid game iteration and testing new gameplay concepts

Irvine, CA

• Establish and document several interactive and web development processes and best practices based on the type of work and resources needed
• Facilitate the development of new business by contributing to pitch decks and ideation around RFPs and working closely with client services and our clients to meet their needs
• Estimate and monitor department-wide bandwidth and distribute projects across the team based upon each developer's strengths
• Create a vendor and freelance network to outsource any bandwidth overflow to ease pressure on internal resources
• Coordinate with other department heads to understand and resolve points of tension and conflict to further establish a healthy work culture and efficient production pipeline

Irvine, CA

• Develop and document interactive specifications and requirements, time estimates, and recommended technologies on a per project basis
• Collaborate with producers and designers to ensure content and design matches feature outline and technical requirements whilst yielding an engaging interactive user experience
• Program front-end and full-stack interactive applications leverage the latest web technologies and adapting to client specifications

New York, NY

• Coordinate and lead the efforts of 20+ international volunteer game developers across all disciplines to efficiently build a total conversion mod on the Source Engine
• Establish a new damage model and supporting game mechanics that inspire competition within players and diversification of player roles, whilst supporting new players
• Foster and support a healthy community of gamers across the world with a shared passion for FPS gaming

New York, NY

• Sketch new level concepts based on existing and evolving game mechanics in order to establish a diverse bench of maps
• Greybox prototype level sketches in order to rapidly iterate on the design to quickly prove or disprove effective implementations of gameplay mechanics
• Create believable and visually interesting environments using a pre-existing asset library and Source Engine’s VRAD lighting tool
• Optimize levels for the smoothest gameplay performance including using visibility occluders, VIS hints, and distance LODs

Atlanta, GA

• Design and develop levels using Valve’s Hammer Editor for the Source Engine and reference material to recreate real-world scenarios for the GDIS military simulator
• Script various scenarios using a combination of the Source Engine level editor and RNI’s in-game proprietary scripting tools
• Participate in scheduled testing sessions with the development team and report any bugs or issues with code, animations, scripting, or level design

Developed maps and optimized maps for Resistance and Liberation on the Source Engine.