Wardogs – Bulkhead (2021–2025)
100 player vehicular FPS | PC/Console | 100+ person team

• Design

  • Meta retention systems, features, class roles and social systems.

  • Game economy and reward system and oversaw the implementation of 500+ reward scenarios used in daily playtests of 80+ players.

  • Event analytics system and used json database querying to create usable data to inform balancing and design changes.

  • Gameplay-item archetype framework used by other designers to design gameplay items, increasing proposal speed and ux-mechanic consistency.

  • Input-buffer system and interaction matrix used on the project by multiple departments to define input order priorities for thousands of player action combinations.

• Production

  • Onboarded co-dev teams working on features and oversaw their progress, focusing on creating agency and collaboration.

  • Created presentation slides on the game loop and meta for publisher presentations.

• Testing

  • Organised and ran internal focus groups during playtests to collect ux feedback on playstyles and proposed actionable changes.

Transformers: Reactivate – Splash Damage (2020–2021)
Remote co-dev designer | 4 Player 3rd-person combat game | PC/Console | ~200 person team

• Design

  • Character stats, damage and defensive systems to create more engaging gameplay and combat depth that scaled with new content.

  • Character, weapon and ability modification system, focused on improving player progression and player-skill demographics representation.

BPM: Bullets Per Minute - Awe Interactive (2020)
Consultant | Roguelike rhythmic first-person shooter

• Gave the final pass gameplay and UI feedback and proposed the auto-rhythm system, these changes were credited by the game director for the positive launch reception.

Other Projects – Bulkhead (2018–2022)

• Primary designer on several unannounced projects including an original IP for Square Enix.

• QA / Design feedback on Promod, Battalion, Battalion Legacy and created levels for Killrun.