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    Promo Art featuring Nightingale N logo. It is wrapped by a huge portal, similar to those in game. There are two different worlds on the left and right sides of the portal. One person stands in the middle, while creatures and humanoid enemies run towards them.
    Project

    Nightingale

    I implemented A Realmwalker’s Initiation tutorial quests, along with the rest of Aurelio Acevedo Ortega’s opening plot line, and some other elements still available in “Nightingale – Legacy Mode”. My contributions as Senior Narrative Designer all fell within an eight-month…

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    Promo Art of two soldiers facing off, standing on opposite sides with the Company of Heroes 3 logo behind them. Planes fly through blue green skies, and reddish dust is kicked up by soldiers around them.
    Project

    Company of Heroes 3

    Released: Spring 2023 From 2022 through 2023, I supported LiveOps features as a Technical Designer Limited Time Game Modes Playlists feature and data authoring Modding Tools, especially Tuning Packs Relic’s official Day 1 mod examples on Steam workshop Cosmetics and…

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    A clip from "MythForce" game's opening 2d animation sequence with Victoria in front, Maggie casting a spell behind here, Hawkins aiming left offscreen, and Rico facing right offscreen. A horde of enemy silhouettes surrounds them.
    Project

    MythForce

    Early Access release Spring 2022 Page Link: MythForce

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    "The Long Dark" logo with stylized hatchet. Astrid's face is shown as a close up with a red and blue sky background. The crashed airliner is in the foreground, with characters like Father Thomas and Molly in the midground as well as a scene showing a wolf jumping up towards Astrid as a hurt survivor holds their arm in a sling..
    Project

    The Long Dark

    Multiple post-launch releases from Fall 2018 until Fall 2021 Page Link: The Long Dark

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    Capcom Heroes logos with stylized O as a star. Frank appears dressed as these heroes behind the logo: X from Mega Man X, Cammy, Sissel from Ghost Trick, Zombie Frank from Frank Rising, and Adam the Clown from Dead Rising 2
    Project

    CAPCOM Heroes

    Page Link: CAPCOM Heroes

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    "Dead Rising 4" logo. Frank West is holding a baseball bat wound with barbed wire, while the chaos of a zombie outbreak ensues in the mall behind him.
    Project

    Dead Rising 4

    by CAPCOM Game Studio Vancouver Fall 2015 My role as a Level Designer on Dead Rising 4’s Narrative Team gave me opportunities to contribute in these areas: Page Link: Dead Rising

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    Ardennes Assault promo art, no caption. American soldiers standing in front of green clouds with guns drawn and airplanes overhead. In the midground a variety of tanks and troup formations are placed to depict a war scene.
    Project

    Ardennes Assault

    Company of Heroes 2, standalone campaign DLC released Fall 2014 Page Link: Company of Heroes

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    A menu screen from MythForce showing the abilities and upgrades for Victoria, a knight. Her Sling Shield ability is selected displaying an example video, a tree with one upgrade selected, and the upgrated ability's modified stats.
    Systems Design

    RPG Mechanics for Hero Progression

    Identifying the Problem Space Mythforce launched into Early access with four characters, each having three active abilities. For each of these twelve abilities I designed three upgrades, then documented & completed approval stakeholder review processes on them. These intentionally varied…

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    Working As Freelancer

    Inflexion Studios

    I was hired as a Senior Narrative Designer in Summer 2023 with the goal of helping to bring Nightingale to Early Access launch. My term there expired before the end of the year and we parted ways.

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    Relic Entertainment's stylized lowercase r logo in yellow on black.
    Work History

    Relic

    In Spring 2022, I returned to Relic Entertainment (SEGA Europe) to work on Company of Heroes 3. I was hired as a LiveOps Designer: supporting that game as it moved towards PC and Console launch. While acting in this role,…

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    Work History

    Beamdog

    I worked on MythForce project as a Technical Designer starting on March 15th, 2021. There were a series of Release Candidate milestones leading up to the games’ Early Access release on April 20th on the Epic Game Store. In May…

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    Technical Design

    Playing a Support role on the Design Team

    Project:  MythForce Engine:    Unreal Editor 4 Timeline:    Leading up to September 2021 Release Candidate I joined the team in mid-production, a bit over 6 months before this release candidate build.My initial task was to audit project workflows & architecture. Our goal…

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