David Midgley Email & Phone Number

San Fernando Valley, California, Us

At Respawn I led and managed a team of Narrative Technical Designers. My team owned and developed narrative-related game systems and content. I also maintained a technical portfolio of narrative-related pipelines, tools, and game systems.STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVORMy team built tools, systems, and pipelines for writers, narrative designers, encounter designers and level designers. We worked with animation, art, sound, visual effects and engineering to realize compelling in-game narrative experiences, systems and mechanics in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.If you talked to characters, followed rumors, played alongside a companion, watched cinematics, or engaged with any non-combat side-content (Mind Trick, Garden, Fishing, Force Echoes, Mementos), then you interacted with our work!STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDERI designed and developed a wide range of game systems, tools and pipelines on Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, with a particularly strong focus on delivering the game's narrative elements. I also authored other core game systems like interacts, doors, the game pause menu and databank architecture.

Austin, Tx, Us

I worked for Certain Affinity in Austin, Texas for 6 years in a variety of primarily technical roles on a number of high-profile AAA projects such as Halo and Call of Duty.CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 REMASTERED (2020 - contributed in 2018)Senior Technical DesignerAAA PROJECT "LAST EXPEDITION" (Certain Affinity, 2018)Senior Technical DesignerWORLD OF TANKS (Halloween 2017)Technical DesignerMAFIA III (2016)DesignerCALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE REMASTERED (2016)Technical DesignerHALO 2: ANNIVERSARY (2014)Technical Designer, Game ModesAGE OF BOOTY: TACTICS (2014)Technical DesignerHALO 4: BULLSEYE PACK (2012)Technical Designer, Ricochet Game ModeHALO 4 (2012)Technical Designer, Multiplayer Game Modes

I cofounded this web startup focused on live events. I helped build the website using JQuery and Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL. I built the iOS app on my own using Objective-C. I was also responsible for analytics and US trademarks.

I supported this UK-based garment design and import startup by developing and managing their website.

Limassol, Cy

Freelance contract as Lead Writer for an unannounced mobile game prototype which did not proceed to full production.

Designed the core game loop for the team based on fundamental principles given their fiction and constraints."Best New Games", iOS App Store - #13; "a clever mix of strategy and time management" (PocketGamer); "Easy to learn, frantic to master" (AppGameNews)

Camarillo, Ca, Us

Worked freelance remote as Lead Writer on unannounced AAA project pitch for Sony and Zindagi Games.

Wrote the script for FINAL RUN (iOS)."A masterful blend of compelling plot, well-drawn characters ... one of the most impressive indie debuts yet this year" (iFanzine); "Storyline’s great... Pick up Final Run!" (iPhone Gamer UK)

Camarillo, Ca, Us

Wrote all cutscenes for MEDIEVAL MOVES: DEADMUND'S QUEST (Playstation 3) by Zindagi Games."The comic book cutscenes are awesome" (IGN); "a deep, fleshed-out story... Humorous characters and an entertaining plot." (EGMNow)

Saint-Mandé, Île-De-France, Fr

In the final months of the project I was promoted from Script Editing Support to Narrative Designer. I wrote and edited scripts for DRIVER: SAN FRANCISCO. Designed core dialogue logic and mission dialogue flow."If there was a heroes of game writing award, they should get it, because... they pulled it off, and it's a really good story, really well-written, really well-acted, it's funny, it's serious, and it's a good game." - Erik Wolpaw

Saint-Mandé, Île-De-France, Fr

Designed logic for what gameplay information to convey during missions in Driver: San Francisco. Fixed issues in Ubisoft's scriptwriting and VO pipeline. Worked in writers' room on missions, story beats and overarching story pitches.

Wrote marketing copy for 20 mobile games published by Chillingo like Angry Birds, Helsing's Fire, and Predators.

Nottingham, Gb

Cutscenes Game Designer on STAR WARS: BATTLEFRONT III. Cutscene design and level scripting. Bugfixed looping animation C++ code to improve performance. Wrote scenarios for Galactic Conquest. Created new game concepts for Free Radical Design.

Designed websites and branding, wrote content, performed SEO, using the LAMP stack. Developed a PHP CMS used by David Howarth, Member of Parliament for Cambridge 2005-2010.

2007 - After graduation from college, I and two friends worked on an FPS prototype engine using Ogre3D, RakNet, and PhysX.1999-2004 - my introduction to games and programming came as a teenager when I used two programming languages, which were based on Forth and Lisp, to emulate a MUD game experience within a MUCK codebase that I ran on my own server. It had 2294 players and ran using 377 in-game programs, with a high of 30 simultaneous players and 810,000 uses of the global chat over the game's lifetime. I worked on the game from the age of 15 to 20, and it exposed me to game design principles, internet protocols, telnet and networking, web development, the basics of C and compilation, and code collaboration.

New York, New York, Us

I helped edit 3 fantasy novels, wrote blurbs for publication, and read manuscript submissions for Voyager / HarperCollins.

First, English

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