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Nicholas Mcdowell is listed as Senior Narrative Designer at Blizzard Entertainment at Blizzard Entertainment, based in Belmont, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at blizzard.com, phone signal with area code 510, 415, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Nicholas Mcdowell.
Nicholas Mcdowell previously worked as Senior Narrative Designer at Blizzard Entertainment and Storyteller at Gaming Together. Nicholas Mcdowell holds Bachelor'S Degree, Theatre/Theater from James Madison University.
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I have over 20 years of creating pioneering innovative digital content with bold design, experimental technologies and techniques, and creating narrative landscapes of worlds filled with fantastical characters. I’m driven by a desire to create storytelling experiences and have done so since the early days of the web, then on console gaming platforms until I found a home as the creative lead on a Massively Multiplayer RPG for the past 10 years. Currently at Blizzard Entertainment putting my skills to use coaching the arch-villains of Azeroth to realize their dramatic and dastardly plans of destruction.Specialties: Storytelling, Narrative Design, Game Design, Leadership, Innovation, Prototyping, Emerging Technologies, UX, UI, Creative DesignAs a Narrative Designer, I create worlds, plots, and characters that serve the story of the game, as well as express narratively the game’s systems, interface and business goals of the project to create a seamless immersive experience. I specialize in pushing the bounds of technology through creative design. I pioneered the use of then-nascent web technologies that are ubiquitous today, creating some of the first professional uses of animated gifs on Hotwired’s front page, javascript, dynamically created pages in the Livewired push channel, and one of the first video animation site with Animation Express. In games, I strive to make engaging characters that allow the player to understand and interact with systems and the monetization of the product within the immersion of the world and have shepherded this philosophy through one of the longest running MMO games.Products Include: Rift, Rift: Storm Legion, Rift: Nightmare Tide, Rift: Prophecy of Ahnket, America’s Army: Rise of a Soldier, Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds, Webmonkey, Animation Express, Livewired, Hotwired
Listed skills include Game Development, Game Design, Gameplay, Narrative Design, and 46 others.
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Irvine, CA, US
∙ Crafted stories, campaigns, creatures, and cultures for pre-production of an unannounced Blizzard project. ∙ Worked with Quest Designers, Cinematics and other stakeholders to ensure narrative quality, consistency, and villainy in Dragonflight's "Embers of Neltharion" update.
Ran games of Dungeons and Dragons for elementary and middle school students. In 2019 this was for a once per week after-school camp, but when the 2020 pandemic started the company switched to groups that would meet 1-5 times per week online through Roll20. This gave students time practicing interpersonal skills, the ability to meet new friends, see old.
Consulting on game design, development and story for clients working on diverse projects from mobile games to theme park experiences. I help teams create good processes, best practices, and creative thinking. ∙ Games for theme park visitors ∙ Mobile Social App ∙ User-Generated Content game ∙ Game interfaces and systems
Redwood City, US
∙ Launched 2011's Rift, MMORPG's Game of the Year. ∙ Lead the creative teams through the launch of three expansions; ∙ Storm Legion ∙ Nightmare Tide ∙ Prophecy of Ahnket∙ Lead the creative team through major content patches of Rift ∙ The Dendrome ∙ Planetouched Wilds ∙ Vostigar Peaks∙ Lead the design, concept art, and animation departments to conceive and.
San Francisco, CA, US
∙ Wrote extensive design docs and original fiction to world build for pre-production and unpublished versions of Sega games.∙ Helped create level designs and gameplay for unpublished Sega games.
Launched the following titles:∙ Starfighter∙ Jedi Starfighter∙ Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds∙ America's Army: Rise of a SoldierDesigned and Developed UX/UI using Flash and Unreal scripting.Created the overarching narrative design and systems for America's Army.Designed the squad and alert systems for America's Army.Designed the RPG progression.
San Francisco, CA, US
∙ Pioneered the use of Javascript at Wired, prototyping and exploring new ways to publish 1990's websites.∙ Engineered and produced "Animation Express" one of the first online video streaming sites. (remember, this was the 90s)∙ Engineered and prototyped the technology for Wired's experimental "push" channel Livewired as an early experiment of Dynamic HTML.
Fairfax, Virginia, US
Wrote and directed original children's puppet show to perform at summer schools and libraries.
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Nicholas Mcdowell has worked for Blizzard Entertainment, Gaming Together, Captain Cursor Creations, Trion Worlds, Inc., and Sega Studios San Francisco.
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Nicholas Mcdowell holds Bachelor'S Degree, Theatre/Theater from James Madison University.
Nicholas Mcdowell is listed with skills including Game Development, Game Design, Gameplay, Narrative Design, Digital Innovation, Creative Writing, Online Gaming, and Voice Acting.
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