SENIOR LEVEL DESIGNER

Level Designer 'Bloomsbury, Regent's Park, and Marylebone district'

• Planning:

  • Did extensive research into London specific districts and included buildings and POIs that are familiar to Londoners and tourists

  • Chose specific interior and exterior POIs which would provide many different fun and challenging gameplay scenarios (with dynamic mission objectives) for different play styles

  • Made sure POIs are visible when driving down main streets (for player guidance)

  • Designed locations with good flow, drivability, and verticality in mind

  • Worked with TDLDs  to make sure interior & POI gameplay locations were within loading and unloading budgets and setup triggers that enable smooth loading and unloading transitions

  • Planned for POI locations with specific 'best option' play style in mind. I.E. some locations were best for infiltration/stealth/hacker, while others were good for assault. This allows players to switch operatives to best tackle a specific area. I visually telegraphed this to the player by either setting up a lot of explosive barrels in a location to signal for assault or provide lots of vents, cameras, and hacking intractables to show it was the best option for a hacker

  • Made sure to design my levels which supported as many ingredients as possible that game design supported such as: spider bot, motion detector, camera to camera, junction box, propane tank, breakables, closed circuit box, walkie-talkie, fire extinguisher, and camera to phone distract setups

• Setup fun placements of collectibles with unique gameplay puzzles for: Darkfibre box, safe box, placed box, crypto skimmer, skill points, masks, street art, weapon blueprint, data drive (relic, analog note, digital note), see-say (corrupt, landmark), hardware hack, kick-up (soccer keep-up game in parks), and parcel fox courier setups

• Created and updated documents and blueprints to present to directors and QC

• Created many micro, small, and medium locations (Albion Internment Centre, United Souls Church, Cruciform Hospital, Bondwick Square, Russell Square, Crescent Park, Thorne's Felts, GBB House, Senate House Library, University College London, and British Museum) which included AI patrols, camera to camera setups, puzzle lock ingredients, support for flying drone, spider bot drone gameplay, and full 360 gameplay approach which guaranteed no two player walkthroughs were the same

• Worked on many graffiti reach locations, survive enemy wave setups, destroy objectives, transfer data gameplays, neutralize targets, and survive gameplay setups

• Setup and balanced red zones with different types of AIs (Faction affiliates, affiliated civilians, and different types of enemy archetypes: Grunt, Overwatch, Rusher, Grenadier, Chase Drone, Riot Drone, and CT Drone) based on play style, difficulty, and faction of the level

• Tagged and setup all building NPC doors with its appropriate type (government, hospital, commercial, pub, tube station, etc…) which showcased where the NPC you profiled came from or is headed off to

• After all the level designers were moved off the project, I became responsible to work with Game Design and the Animation team to place HVC CLOs (Bee Keeper, Spy, Professional Hitman, Anarchist, and Protest Leader) all across London in all districts

• Worked on prototyping uprising rioting CLO setups which organically created fighting and standoff scenarios between the Albion/Police and civilians

• Did a world pass on CLO/STP placements of civilians based on different world states (Controlled, Resisting, and Underbelly)

• Worked directly with various team members:​

  • Different sub-district Open World Level Designers and Mission Designers (TOR/MTL)

  • Coordinators, Managers, Game Designers (TOR/MTL)

  • Associate Level Design Director, Art Director and TDLDs (TOR/MTL)

  • Synced up with Montreal studio to align the high level look and feel of the reach puzzles, distribution, and difficulty

  • Development Testers, Quality Assurance/Control Team