Responsibilities

• Created and maintained level blockouts for feature testing environments, pre production content milestone levels, and all production levels that shipped in the final product.

• Established and implemented a level design pipeline in collaboration with each discipline.

• Pitched, prototyped, implemented, and tested game mechanics in the levels.

  • Scripted mechanics with Unreal Engine’s visual scripting Blueprint system.

• Defined gameplay metrics / level construction metrics and ensure production adheres to these throughout development.

  • Modeled proxy kit pieces within Unreal Engine’s modeling tool to quickly build and iterate on level layouts.

• Wrote, presented, and maintained concise level design documents for the development team to use and reference.

• Constantly communicated across all disciplines at various levels (Directors, Leads, and Developers) the team’s design intentions, changes, and dependencies.

• Supported production by self-authoring and managing tasks and tickets in JIRA for each production sprint cycle, as well as creating tasks for dependent developers, to deliver on milestone goals on time.

• Built spaces using the approved art assets

• Art integration and collaboration

• Encounter design

• Combat pacing and balancing

• Enemy AI behavior tuning and integration

• Resource placement and pacing

• Platform optimizations