• Relic

    Illustration of combat from bird's eye perspective. Tanks in the middle of a square fire back at soldiers in the buildings surrounding them. Boats deliver soldiers to support the tanks.
    Technical Design

    Modding support for Tuning Packs

    Project:  Company of Heroes 3 Engine:    Essence, a proprietary engine at Relic Feature:   User Generated Content (UGC) Situation It was just over a month until Launch day, and I discovered our public editor was missing features. There was little production team…

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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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    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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    Relic Entertainment's stylized lowercase r logo.
    Work History

    Relic Entertainment (SEGA Europe)

    In Spring 2022, I returned to Relic to work on Company of Heroes 3. I was hired as a LiveOps Designer; additionally, I contributed to multiple teams as a Game Modes Designer, Gameplay Designer, Content Systems Designer, and Technical Designer….

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    About

    Curriculum Vitae

    Welcome to my portfolio. My name is James, but feel free to call me Jim. I am a level and narrative designer living in the Greater Vancouver Area of British Columbia, Canada. Before games I spent more than 6 years…

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