Philippe Boulle Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Leading design and creative direction for the award-winning Age of Empires IV.

Creative direction on something exciting and new.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Led the narrative design team for Age of Empires IV.- Oversaw all narrative delivery, led a team of narrative designers, and championed narrative across the team and in the press- Worked with designers, artists and sound designers to ensure high quality narrative - Worked with external partners to bring documentary style cinematics to completion

Vancouver, Canada Area

Provided creative direction, prioritization and team leadership for Narrative Design, Level Design, Cinematics, and Environment Art on two unannounced projects. Spearheaded prototyping process for Level Design in early development.Oversaw extensive narrative pivot and rallied team around creative vision.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Creative direction and vision on real-time strategy game Dawn of War III.- Established vision of product- Oversaw design team to execute on that vision- Represented product with press and fans

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Scripting of multiple missions in "Theatre of War" game mode- Oversaw mission design team for post-launch content

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Oversaw junior Narrative Designer in creation of narrative and narrative devices- Designed narrative pipeline and tools- Designed campaign and online meta-game systems

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Designed narrative devices and tools; implemented lua-driven system for speech triggering- Collaborated on story development with creative director and other stakeholders- Co-wrote campaign and gameplay speech with other Narrative Designer- Oversaw casting and voice recording- Championed and oversaw narrative vision across project team

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Developed all campaign story elements and wrote final campaign scripts for Dawn of War II and the Chaos Rising expansion- Led design of campaign logic, meta-game systems and narrative devices- Hired and oversaw freelance writers for multiplayer speech - Participated in casting and voice recordings- Oversaw Junior Designers working on campaign and missions

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Planned and wrote all narrative elements- Implemented campaign and progression systems

Greater Atlanta Area

• Planned and executed marketing and advertising for pen-and-paper and card games
• Supervised a four-person marketing team and a 5000-member fan club and organized play group

Greater Atlanta Area

• Hired freelance authors for novels based on pen-and-paper RPG properties
• Edited 20+ manuscripts per year, including multi-volume series, anthologies, novels and collections

Greater Atlanta Area

• Oversaw Dark Ages & Kindred of the East product lines
• Redesigned Vampire: The Dark Ages pen-and-paper RPG into broader Dark Ages line
• Designed, hired writers and developed manuscripts for 15 pen-and-paper RPG releases

• Author of multiple horror and science-fiction novels, novellas and short stories
• Principal or contributing writer of over 20 pen-and-paper RPG products
• Scriptwriter for several Flash-based serialized games

• Led development of Tribe 8 fantasy pen-and-paper RPG, including rules and world design
• Oversaw narrative development for Heavy Gear RPG/tactical game and broader IP
• Developed and wrote multiple supplements for both product lines