David Kimber Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Or, Us

United States

Seattle

Game designer working on cutting edge software and hardware technology involving VR/AR/MR for training and simulations.

Worked as a game systems designer for the best and brightest bunch of guys and girls in the industry.

Greater Seattle Area

Worked on the UI design and implementation for the latest America's Army: Proving Grounds PC game, distributed through the Steam network. Additionally created the game and teaser trailer cinematics using the Unreal 3 engine, published to the web/Youtube at large.Also tapped for design work on several other Army-related projects through Zombie's Serious Games division.

Duties involved concepting, storyboarding, prototyping, and executing visions for cinematic cutscenes. Also I scripted and executed non-cinematic gameplay moments and experiences, as well as prototyped and created gameplay scenarios and minigames within the world environment. I also involved myself on the design-side with input, documentation of concepts, and pro/con feedback scenarios.

Xbox Live Arcade side: duties included AP and design work in the initial stages of development (Titles: Carcassonne, several unreleased prototypes, Changelings (later renamed))MMO side (unreleased project): systems design documentation specifically related to Character Advancement and Rewards (detailing class/race types/advantages, points/achievement-based leveling system, pet affinities, ability types and creative usage, etc.)

Redmond, Wa

Lead designer for 2 web-based projects (Mojomaster, a million-dollar advergame for Axe Deoderant/Unilever Corp) and Penguins!, in-house IP). Managed all design elements and mechanics, as well as creating the majority of levels (for Penguins!) using a Java-based in-house layout tool.

Title: Shark Tales for PC; duties involved concepting, paper-mapping, and executing level design vision based on license restrictions and art style; used the Unreal 2 engine to create levels

Portland, Oregon Area

Responsible for overseeing a team of 5 level designers (including an outsourced LD in England) for the creation of 18 MMO-sized levels for Austin-based Origin Systems Ultima project (later canceled) using the Unreal 2 engine. Duties involved creating a level designers guidelines manual and pipeline workflow to facilitate meeting deadlines and providing a high standard of quality, as well as participating in the production side (created 3 of the environments myself).

San Rafael, Ca

Worked on Celebrity Deathmatch for the PS2, responsible for designing character special moves and attacks and informing the Animation team of frame specifics for play balancing.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for paper-layout schematics for porting Gauntlet Legends to the PS1; designed several mini-games for Pogo.com (Bump!, Highland Gold, Pebble Beach Golf). Created/designed a Flash-based advergame for Scott Adams' 'Dilberito' product line. Designed an unreleased Roller Derby game for EA; contracted as a designer for Stormfront Studios for Legend of Alon D'ar (fantasy-action RPG).

Alameda, Ca

Game tester for Top Gun and other miscellaneous titles.

Foster City, Ca

Temporary position as a game tester for 1st party platform games (SIN, Medieval, Spyro, Blasto, Crash Bandicoot, Hot Shots Golf, and many others).

Education record

Diploma, Ged

Activities and Societies: Cross country, track & field, wrestling, yearbook staff, pep band, Boy's State, National Honor Society, Society.