Prof Brown

Games I Worked On

Firewalk Studios

Concord, Principal Designer, Fall 2020 - Fall 2024

• Gameplay systems designer for Concord, a multiplayer arena shooter in Unreal 5
• Designed character kits, weapons, combat abilities from prototype to ship/li>
• Drove the design work in character pod teams and collaborated closely with engineering, hard surface, character art, animation, tech art, audio, production and QA to bring the characters to ship/li>
• Mentored designers in design principals and practical skills/li>
• Organized continued design education sessions and workshop discussions/li>
• Wrote robust documentation of gameplay design systems and how to implement them in our engine/li>
• Lead the game's Accessibility initiative, creating and wrangling accessibility features across multiple disciplines and worked closely with Sony's accessibility knowledge share group/li>

Bungie

Destiny 2, Staff Designer, Spring 2017 – Summer 2020

• Worked with the sandbox team to design and implement various character abilities, build perks, and exotic armor for Destiny 2
• Designed and created exotic armor for Curse of Osiris expansion
• Designed and created exotic armor for Forsaken expansion
• Designed new Dawnblade and Voidwalker subclass path perks for Forsaken expansion
• Worked closely with activities team to create Gambit Prime armor and activity perk system
• Designed and created exotic armor for Season of the Drifter and Season of Opulence releases
• Acted as feature lead for the armor team, working closely with character and fx artists, testers, narrative and engineers to deliver armor
• Acted as feature lead for the weapons team, working closely with concept, hard surface and fx artists, testers, designers, narrative and engineers to deliver weapons
• Designed and created exotic heavy bow Leviathan's Breath for Shadowkeep expansion
• Collaborated on design and creation of exotic heavy machinegun Heir Apparent for Season of the Worthy release
• Acted as feature lead for the controller remapping feature released in Season of Arrivals, working closely with gameplay and ui engineers, ui/ux designers, accessibility consultants, and testers to deliver the feature
• Scripted automation and validation tools to help weapons testers and designers with content setup
• Designed and created exotic stasis launcher Salvation's Grip for Beyond Light expansion
• Redesigned the reprisal of D1 exotic pulse rifle No Time to Explain for Beyond Light expansion
• Collaborated on design and creation of exotic sniper rifle Cloudstrike for Beyond Light expansion
• Organized and ran lunch-and-learn discussions for the design department for continued design education

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