Tom B. Email & Phone Number

Horsham, England, United Kingdom

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Horsham

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

Recently completed work as a Game Designer on Assassin's Creed Syndicate.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

At Thumbstar I worked on a number of projects leading and motivating small teams of artists and programmers to create prototypes based off my own original designs. I got hands on with these prototypes, tuning and balancing gameplay, using a mixture of in-house and commercial editors such as Unity. During my time there I picked up valuable skills in social and monetisation design as well as dealing with licensed IP.Released titles: Tiny Phone People for Android… Show more At Thumbstar I worked on a number of projects leading and motivating small teams of artists and programmers to create prototypes based off my own original designs. I got hands on with these prototypes, tuning and balancing gameplay, using a mixture of in-house and commercial editors such as Unity. During my time there I picked up valuable skills in social and monetisation design as well as dealing with licensed IP.Released titles: Tiny Phone People for Android The Boomerang Trail for iOS and Android Show less

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

My first project at Ubisoft Reflections was the shipped title - Monster 4x4: Stunt Racer. During that project I worked on game design encompassing progression systems, game modes, mechanics, menus, multiplayer, controls and collectables. I also worked on the level design every step of the way from conception through to final designs and implementation. I also did some basic visual scripting placing objects and collectables around the levels. I also wrote all the text for the game and dealt with… Show more My first project at Ubisoft Reflections was the shipped title - Monster 4x4: Stunt Racer. During that project I worked on game design encompassing progression systems, game modes, mechanics, menus, multiplayer, controls and collectables. I also worked on the level design every step of the way from conception through to final designs and implementation. I also did some basic visual scripting placing objects and collectables around the levels. I also wrote all the text for the game and dealt with all the localisation.My second project was Driver San Francisco Wii where i worked as the Game Designer and Writer. I wrote and maintained the GDD that formed the spine of the game encompassing such things as player abilities, progression and upgrade systems, weapons and mission specific mechanics. I also designed all the missions in the game and worked with the scriptwriters to make sure that the missions fit with the overall narrative. As well as this I also wrote a large proportion of the game's dialogue, wrote all the game's text and helped out with the localisation and voice direction.During my third project, Driver San Francisco on PS3, 360, PC and Mac, I was involved in the design of the economy system, the freedrive felony system, numerous chapters of the game, and also tuned all of the getaway missions.On my fourth project, Just Dance 3 for Playstation3, I was the principal Game Designer, responsible for designing the game flow, Trophies, colour feedback on the Move sphere and various other things. Show less

At the time there were no Game Design internships available so when I started my placement at Ubisoft Reflections I was a Production Assistant and my work included minuting meetings, dealing with holiday requests and working on the memory budget for the game. I moved into design within a couple of weeks of arriving.

Ba, Computer Games Design

I started this degree back in 2003 then left after finishing first year to do a Creative Writing degree then returned after that degree.

Ba (Hons), Creative Writing And Film Studies

This degree was invaluable and I have greatly improved as a writer as a result of it. I specialised in script writing and during the 3.