Professional Work
Ark Ascended
Ark Cinematics
Atlas
Ark Survival Evolved
Toxikk
Guardians of Valor
Dungeon Defenders 2
Dungeon Defenders 1
Damnation
Responsibilities: Worked heavily on each of the officially released maps. Much of my work has been taking existing levels from the original game and revamping them with the full power of Unreal Engine 5. This has mostly involved reworking most of these areas from the ground up.
Responsibilities: Did all of the world building for about 80%-90% of each of our Pre-Rendered Ark2 trailers working closely with lighting artists and directors to make sure we were not only getting beautiful worlds but ones that weren't detracting from the purpose of the shots.
Responsibilities: For Atlas I helped not only create over 40% of the total islands in the game but also worked heavily on building out several tech systems for our level design teams. Such as tools for hand placing time of day based volumetric fog, and various tools to help streamline workflows.
Responsibilities: I have worked heavily on every official DLC Studio WildCard has released, with the exception of Scorched Earth. I played a large part in building out the worlds for each. I also created a contest winning mod map for the game called The Center that became the first official map from the community and has been well beloved by the community.
Responsibilities: I was contracted to do two levels for Reakktor Studios. In both cases I was responsible for taking an existing layout made by another level designer for Unreal Tournament 3 and repurpose them to fit Toxikk’s gameplay/movement mechanics. I was also responsible for bringing these levels through most of the production pipeline including full visual passes, basic gameplay implementation such as item placement, and getting the map to a mostly final state. On top of these two levels I also gave rights to one of my previous levels made for Unreal Tournament 3 for use in Toxikk.
Responsibilities: As the only level designer on the project I was responsible for making every level on the project from the initial layouts to the final visual passes and polishing. I was responsible for creating nearly 30 levels for the game. On top of the actual level design work I also handled a lot of environment art creation as well as optimization for the levels and also helped oversee the creation of the environment assets for the project.
Responsibilities: As the lead level designer my main task was managing the overall quality of our levels from start to finish. I was responsible for working directly with the level designers on the team to ensure that our layouts were created to the utmost quality before they were passed unto the world builders. Once the maps were passed unto the world builders I worked directly with them to ensure that not only the original gameplay layout was kept intact but also that the levels were being designed to arts standards/desires. I also helped out on various level design/world building tasks such as creating layouts, doing full lighting passes, bug fixing etc.
Responsibilities: I created over half of the levels in the original game from start to completion (Everything but level scripting, VFX, and optimization). Most of the levels created for Dungeon Defenders were created in a 3-5 week schedule from initial layout to final visual polish, with no reiteration time after passing the levels in as finished, so I was required to make levels at a very rapid pace and to get it right the first time. I was also responsible for taking existing layouts from other level designers and doing full art passes on them. I was also responsible for creating about 90% of the DLC levels, some of which were created in a week or two from start to finish.
Responsibilities: I started during the last 6-9 months of production on Damnation so most of my work consisted of polishing up their singleplayer levels as well as doing full passes on their multiplayer maps both gameplay wise and visually. From day one I worked closely with the lead game designer and art director to ensure that the multiplayer maps were visually appealing and fun to play. I reworked a lot of their multiplayer maps to give them a better overall flow and also worked on doing basic visual passes on the maps to bring them closer to what the art director was wanting for the maps.
Responsibilities: I started at Gearbox during the last year of production on Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway so most of my time was spent polishing the games levels. We were rotated from map to map every 6 or so months but during that time period we were responsible for the quality of our levels overall and were directly held responsible for everything, from art passes, to optimization, vfx, level scripting/streaming, bug fixing, etc. For most of my time at Gearbox I was responsible for the final mission in the game and getting the map polished and runnable on 360/PS3.