Project: Assassin's Creed VR

As the game director at WeirdBeard I was responsible for the overall creative quality of our products. This involved planning the scope and timeline of projects and their sprints, guiding our team of 6 to deliver a product in which the game design, art and audio are at the level to compete in today’s market. When one of these aspects was outsourced I handled all communication with outside parties. On a production level I was responsible for creating game content like levels, missions, puzzles but also designing features, systems and UI.During this period I was also the artist at WeirdBeard. I determined the art style of our projects, setup the pipeline and created everything from concept art, to promotional art, to game assets.As I worked both for clients and on WeirdBeard’s own IPs, performing within creative boundaries, under tight deadlines, or in complete freedom was daily practice. Besides development I was also heavily involved with business strategy. Together we brought the studio from making flash games for web portals to making our own online multiplayer game for PS4 and Steam that was featured in PlayStation Plus in August 2016.

Before my time as game director I was a game designer at WeirdBeard. I worked on fleshing out game concepts, writing pitches and creating and balancing the content of the games we developed.

As a Game Designer at Virtual Fairground I mostly worked on designing features and creating content for web based MMO’s. This involved UX design, designing game mechanics, story design, and lots of communication with team members to make sure the Game Design team’s vision was turned into a working product. For the MMO Club Galactik I worked closely with the writers of the Galactik Football IP and our Copywriter to make sure the IP was protected and translated to the game. At Virtual Fairground I also made the game Pulse for which I was the main designer and created concept art and game assets.

As a Concept artist at Coded Illusions I worked together closely with the Art Director, Game Designers and Animators to create workable designs for environments, props and characters.

During my internship as a Concept Artist at Coded Illusions I got the opportunity to develop my digital painting and drawing skills under the guidance of the Art Director. We worked in Photoshop to create designs for environments, props and characters for their Xbox 360 game Nomos (work title: Haven). This also involved a lot of researching visual styles and cultural backgrounds.