Prof Brown

Games I Worked On

Firewalk Studios

Concord, Principal Designer, Fall 2020 - Fall 2024

• Gameplay Design: Designed and implemented character kits, weapons, and combat abilities from prototype to launch using Unreal Engine 5 blueprints and proprietary Gameplay Ability System extension for a competitive arena shooter.
• Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Led character teams and worked closely with engineering, hard surface and character art, animation, tech art, audio, production, and QA to bring characters to production quality.
• Documentation & Mentorship: Wrote comprehensive design documentation for gameplay systems; mentored junior designers and organized ongoing design education sessions and workshops.
• Accessibility: Drove the game’s Accessibility initiative, coordinating with Sony's accessibility group to ensure inclusive feature integration across multiple disciplines.

Bungie

Destiny 2, Staff Designer, Spring 2017 – Summer 2020

• Gameplay Design: Designed and implemented character abilities, build perks, exotic armor and weapons from Destiny 2 launch through Beyond Light expansion. Acted as feature lead for armor team and weapons team.
• Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Collaborated closely with other gameplay designers, engineers, artists, animators, audio designers, test and production to bring gameplay features from pitch to ship; worked closely with the activities team to create activity-specific armor and activity perk system.
• Documentation & Mentorship: Scripted automation and validation tools to help weapons testers and designers with content setup; authored robust documentation for armor and weapons gameplay systems.
• Accessibility: Led controller remapping feature, collaborating with engineers, UX designers, and accessibility consultants.

Independent

Game Design Consulting, Spring 2015 - Spring 2017

• Consulted on mini-game design, onboarding UX, and other design details in a whimsical VR Camping sim
• Designed economy and crafting system
• Advised on game design usability issues

Heart Machine

Hyper Light Drifter, Level Designer, Spring 2015 – Spring 2016

• Designed and built levels for 2D action RPG using custom game engine extension in GameMaker
• Assisted with systems design for economy

Insomniac Games

Slow Down, Bull – Designer, Project Lead, Summer 2013 – Spring 2015

• Conceived, prototyped, and pitched a small action PC game as a process experiment for the company
• Lead a 5 person team to create the game from pre-production through production
• Hosted regular live development streams of the project and composed regular devlogs

Sunset Overdrive – Designer, 2011 – Summer 2013

• Prototyped a variety of mechanics during pre-production using Insomniac’s proprietary tools
• Iterated on core mechanics with the pre-production team
• Created visual design documents to convey feature proposals
• Prototyped early iterations of Chaos Squad
• Created levels to prototype early integration of traversal mechanics and combat

Resistance 3 – Designer, 2009-2011

• Responsible for level design of the boat and train levels, combat implementation in the terraformer level, as well as contribution to design of enemies, weapons, co-op mechanics and other game objects for the single-player campaign
• Implemented design via Lua scripting and use of Insomniac’s proprietary level editor
• Organized playtesters for weekly level segment internal playtests
• Responsible for documentation of design decisions and mechanics for respective levels and co-op mechanics

Resistance 2 – Game Design Intern, 2008

• Designed and implemented scenarios and battles in Cocodrie, Louisiana level
• Scripted in Lua and used Insomniac’s proprietary level editor to implement setups for the single-player campaign

Schell Games

Pixie Hollow – Game Design Intern, 2009

• Designed levels and polish on mini-games for the Disney Fairies web MMO
• Wrote and implemented initial quests for the Wilderness, a group questing area