Work Experience

UNSEEN, Inc. | Senior Narrative Game Designer

August 2023 - Present

 

Since August 2023, I've been working at UNSEEN as a narrative-focused game designer on Kemuri. More details forthcoming.

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Guerrilla Games | Senior Quest Designer

October 2017 - July 2023

 

Working on the Horizon franchise, with duties such as research; pitching and brainstorming; level and encounter design; implementation of complex branching conversations; visual scripting; reviewing colleagues' check-ins; interviewing potential hires; and much more. Editor work was done in Guerrilla's proprietary engine, Decima.

 

Horizon Forbidden West

• Content design and implementation for The Base (market research, presentation and brainstorming, layout iteration, content coordination)

• Pitching and workshopping quest concepts in collaboration with writers and other quest designers

• Design and implementation of one main quest and several side quests (level design, encounter/quest scripting, branching dialogue implementation)

• Interlude: The Eye of the Earth

• Errand: The Oldgrowth

• Side Quests: The Twilight Path, Thirst for the Hunt, Need to Know

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores (DLC)

• Support tasks for the Quest team

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Monolith Productions | Associate Designer

April 2016 - August 2017

 

I was a part of the sandbox team for Middle-earth: Shadow of War. Using a proprietary engine, I populated environments with an emphasis on environmental storytelling. I owned the majority of the sandbox implementation for 3 zones (Núrn, Cirith Ungol, Minas Morgul), and helped out with minor tasks for the remaining zones. I also scripted AI vignettes in a Lua-based language, and added background AI to some missions.

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Snail Games | Writer, Narrative Designer

February 2017 - April 2017

 

I assisted with worldbuilding and quest writing for Dappervolk, a virtual pet and avatar site with RPG elements that launched in June 2020. I worked primarily on the Three's Forest area, building out branching questlines and writing dialogue for Magdalene, Irin, and the three witches, based on specifications given by the director, Quisling. I also contributed writing for NPCs in Louise Hill, and helped brainstorm ideas for world lore and upcoming content.

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Motiga, Inc. | Writer, Narrative Designer

October 2016 - December 2016

 

I was contracted by Motiga to complete some writing tasks for Gigantic, including hero VO and flavor text.

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Motiga, Inc. | QA Game Specialist

June 2015 - February 2016

 

As a consulting QA Game Specialist at Motiga, I worked with another Specialist to own the testing for Gigantic's Progression system. This included writing and running test cases in TestRail, cataloging and verifying bugs in JIRA, participating in daily studio-wide playtests, and giving feedback on the game. I also received the opportunity to write character dialogue for the game and participate in lore brainstorming sessions.

 

iAntiVirus | Moderator

July 2013 - October 2015

 

iAnti was an international online art and literature community that I helped moderate in my free time. I helped make several quality of life improvements to the site, including: the redesign of several of its classes; helping to improve mod to member transparency by running AMA sessions; the planning and execution of boardwide events; as well as everyday moderator activities, such as fulfilling user requests, and analyzing feedback.

 

Motiga, Inc. | QA Intern

February 2015 - May 2015

 

As an intern at Motiga, I assisted the QA team with their work on Gigantic. This included regressing specific issues, testing new features of the game, and participating in daily focus playtests. Using Jira, I helped catalog bugs and ensure that they had been fixed.

 

VMC | Compliance Tester

August 2014 - February 2015

 

As a member of VMC/Volt's Xbox 360 Compliance team, I helped ensure that titles released on the 360 were up to Microsoft's standards for the platform.