Scott Murray Email & Phone Number

Kelowna, Bc, Ca

Minecraft Legends:- 3Cs and Combat Design- Game Balancing and RPS Tuning and Iteration- Player Combat tuning and Iteration- Setting up Player Mob and Enemy Attacks and Hitboxes- Setting up and iterating on Player Mob, Enemy Mob and NPC behaviors and targeting and targeting priorities- Working closely with coders to design new game systems to improve the overall game experience- Working with Art and Animation teams to hook up new Mobs or Structures into the game- Designed and Implemented Player Feedback Systems for Player Damage that helped the Player visualize and feel when they have taken damage- Designed and Implemented how Spawners function in the game- Redesigned and Implemented changes to the Simple Direct System and how Mobs move and behave when given simple commands- Designed and Implemented Sprint system- Onboarded new Designers on how to use the current Systems and the iteration process

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Minecraft Legends:- 3Cs and Combat Design- Designed and implemented NPC behaviours to be used and swapped as the campaign progresses so they react to the events that occur in the story- Designed and implemented the Attack Interrupt system- Setting Up Mobs and Structures with their attacks- Implementing Mob Knockback system- Tuning Mob and Mount Collision Volumes

Vancouver, Canada Area

Minecraft Legends:- 3Cs Design and Tuning- Damage Visualization implementation- Setting up and iterated on new Status Effects and resistances- Fall damage tuning- Setting up Mounts, Mount Abilities and Mount behaviours, movement speed, air control and feel- Heroes and Mobs Design Implementation- Stubbing in and Hooking up new Mobs- Setting Up Mob Behaviors and Targeting Priorities

Vancouver, Canada Area

Minecraft Legends:- Testing on the prototype- Gameplay Feature testing on the prototype- Testing on Heroes and Mob features and Art post prototypeCrossfire: Legion:- Tested the Units for Multiplayer- Test the Maps for Multiplayer- Multiplayer stress testing- Campaign progression testing

Vancouver, Canada Area

The Forest (PC/PS4)- Lead a remote team of QA Testers- Brought industry standards and best practices to a small indie studio- Assisted on production to help guide inexperienced devs get out patches with as minimum bugs as possible- Trained several inexperienced entry level QA Testers on proper QA procedures

* QA Point of Contact for Trailer Park Boys: Greasy Money - Created Test Plans and Test Documentation - Performed Feature Testings and Weekly Database Audits in Assembla - Reported over 500+ issues into the database - Built and distributed builds to the team and studio and onto TestFlight for Beta Testers* Provide Live Ops support for Trailer Park Boys: Greasy Money and Pot/Bud Farm: Grass Roots

Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak (PC)* Testing Online, Skirmish and the Front End/UI on Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak on PC* Created and implemented test plans for Online testing, Matchmaking, Skirmish game mode and the Front End/UI for in house and external testing* Created and provided production with daily Online stability reports and gameplay feedback* Test network stability using NEWT (Network Emulator For Windows Toolkit)* Organize and execute studio wide playtests and matchmaking stress tests* Support development by testing new features, unit abilities and maps before merging changes to the mainline branch

Halo: The Master Chief Collection (Xbox One)Triad Wars (PC)* Tested Online and provided development support* Online and Gameplay/Core Loop testing

Vancouver, Canada Area

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (Xbox One)* Provided Online Development Support on Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (Xbox One)* Created Online Test Plan and Documentation for Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition* Organized Team playtests for the QA Team to participate in for stress testing

Joyride Turbo (2012) (XBLA)UFC on Xbox Live (2012) (XBL)NBA Game Time (2012) (XBL)NHL Gamecenter (2013) (XBL)* Provided development support for XBLA game Joyride TurboTested Online Modes and Achievements/Playthroughs* Reported bugs and tested the application UFC on Xbox Live on Xbox 360, Mobile and Tablet devices* Created and implemented a test plan for live broadcasts of a sporting event for both the XBL and Mobile versions* Tested companion apps on iOS, Android and Microsoft Surface devices* Responded to customer query’s via Twitter/Facebook* Provided testing support for the applications NBA Game Time and NHL Gamecenter on Xbox 360* Created soak test plan and updated soak test reports* Tested companion applications on the Microsoft Surface

Prototype 2 (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)* Assigned to perform Events and Progression testing on Prototype 1 and 2 where the following tasks were performed: - Created tracking documents in Microsoft Excel - Gathered and provided difficulty feedback - Performed multiple 100% completion passes - Assigned to Achievements and Trophies testing* Experienced in using PS3 Debugger, Target Manager and Xbox 360 Authoring tool to emulate builds and retrieve callstacks and TTY outputs for coders.* Used Radical Entertainment software Plan B to compile builds and retrieve crash dumps

ModNation Racers (PS3) Sleeping Dogs (Xbox 360/PS3) LittleBigPlanet Karting (PS3)*Assigned to perform testing on Modnation Racers on the Kart and Character editors where the following tasks were preformed: - Created test plan for both editors - Assisted in testing Online Creation Sharing with the Online team - Assisted in testing Online gameplay, patches and DLC - Used UFG software BuildLab in conjunction with Perforce to compile builds - Used software (Web) DevTrack and (Web) JIRA to log issues

Prototype (PS3/X360/PC)*Tuned difficulty and goals for the Secondary Missions of Prototype*Tested Prototype on the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC* Point of Contact for the Secondary Missons * Experienced in using PS3 Debugger, Target Manager and Xbox 360 Authoring tool to emulate builds and retrieve callstacks and TTY outputs for coders.* Used Radical Entertainment software Plan B to compile builds and retrieve crash dumps.

- Gameplay Point of Contact (POC) on Need for Speed: ProStreet and Need for Speed: Undercover- QA Tester on NBA Street Homecourt- Assigned daily tasks for the Gameplay QA Testers on both titles- Communicated with producers and development on the design of the game, and kept testers and QA managers informed of any design changes on NFS ProStreet and NFS Undercover.- Created Test Scripts using DevTest as well as setting up and running Test Cycles for testers on NFS ProStreet and NFS Undercover.- Worked with production during the milestone process, to assure all game assets are functional by the set deadlines.Completed Compliance and Guideline training for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.- Experienced in using Microsoft Excel to create documents to track progress or data for sending out reports.Performed basic and franchise-specific training for new testers on NFS.

Game Art And Design

Diploma