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Atlanta, GA, US

Mountain View, WY, US

San Francisco, California, US

Reykjavik, NA, IS

• Design Director for sandbox MMORPG World of Darkness
• Worked with Creative Director to create the Vision Statement and designprinciples.
• Worked on initial design, prototyping, planning and playtesting through theprototyping and vertical slice stages of the project to determine core loops,game flow and direction of the project.
• Owned the gameplay vision of the project, oversaw the design effort byreviewing and giving feedback on design work. Communicated gameplaydirection and feature progress to the project team.
• Worked with the other directors and leads to scope and plan the project.Acted as Product Owner for the gameplay teams, owning and managing thegameplay backlog.
• Worked with Senior Producer to define business model and design themonetization strategy.

• Lead Designer of MMORTS game Dreamlords
• Co-founder and board member of Lockpick Entertainment.
• Created original game concept of a social MMORTS with a substantialamount of browser-accessible “empire” gameplay.
• Assisted in hiring and building a team of 25 developers.
• Owned the creative vision of the project and communicated it to the team.
• Lead the design team, maintained the design and priorities of the project andmanaged 5 designers.

• Programmer on adventure platformer Saga of Ina
• Collaboratively created original concept and vision for an action adventuregame with physics puzzles.
• Designed levels, storyline, player interactions and wind physics.
• Created the level design tools, player actions and world action objects in C++
• Assisted in the implementation of collision, physics and animation systems.
• Saga of Ina won Best Game at the 2004 Swedish Game Awards.

I got my start in the early, text-based worlds of early MMOs, working on Aarchon MUD—an experience that shaped my player-first design philosophy and passion for community-driven game worlds.

Ba, Media - Game Design

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