• The Long Dark: Survival Mode

    My Achievements as Open World Designer

    Delivered high quality Survival regions in quick cadence for open development project with >8.5 million players

    Pitched novel puzzle design to fit within Survival gameplay constraints, then realized it through scripting and level design

    Assisted on a variety of other content including Hallowe’en event and Polaroid collectables

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    My Contributions to Levels

    FEATURED

    Concept Art of the Cannery including a boat and stilted buildings over a frozen ocean. Wolves walk near a collection of wood detritus on the ice.

    Bleak Inlet

    A picture of Ash Canyon from the Hesistant Prospect release announcement.

    Ash Canyon

    SUMMARIZED

    Hushed River Valley

    Placement and tuning of polaroid-gated vistas in later update.

    Blackrock
    A aerial picture from Blackrock region

    I designed many elements of the courtyard, rooftop, and interiors of penitentiary setpiece location.

    A level diagram of prison grounds with insets for prison cells, cell blocks, and other description. Areas are ranked based on risk for changes in design.

    Visual documentation: my early layout overview for penitentiary grounds

    Broken Railroad*

    Overhauled main paths through region while adding Episode 2 Redux’s cinematic encounters with bear.

    Forlorn Muskeg*
    Gameplay capture from The Long Dark with bear in distance under a tower. Player character is holding a spear in first person.

    Placed 3 interactive towers. Iterated on combat areas for Episode 2 Redux’s gameplay encounters with bear.

    Pleasant Valley*

    Redesigned large areas to add crashed airliner, Thomson’s Crossing town, and Molly’s house in Episode 3.

    Polaroid-gated Vistas feature
    In-game Polaroid of vista in Pensive Valley

    Placed 14 collectibles. Setup 14 trigger volumes to allow expedient charcoal mapping of certain areas.
    Identified and solved presentation issues for user interface elements for HUD objectives and Map screens.

    Sample documentation: my user flow description for the discovery-driven rewards system using Polaroids
    Polaroid-Gated Vistas User FlowDownload
    *follow next link for detailed discussion of level design contributions as part of Story Mode

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    Will Mackenzie close up from The Long Dark's Story Mode intro credits. My name is one of the ones listed in this capture.