The Work

Every seat. Receipts included.

Hands-on work across the three disciplines of making games. It's here as evidence that I've done these jobs, which is what lets me diagnose problems between them.

01 · Making Games

Development

Environment, hard-surface, and technical art; UI/UX design and implementation; level and technical design in Unreal Engine. The range runs from AAA weapons for Treyarch and Epic to Rebel Core: Awakens, a playable prototype I built almost entirely myself.

Rebel Core: Awakens · Near-solo prototype · Public Steam Playtest

Rebel Core: the hero overlooking a red wasteland at sunset — Rebel CoreEnvironment, lighting & post: all built in-engine by me

Rebel Core boss fight mid-phase — Boss design & implementationIntro boss, from phase design to final fight

Rebel Core combat trading shots with enemies — Combat3-way "rock-paper-scissors" combat system

Rebel Core level select screen with boss monitors — UI / UXDiegetic level select, designed and implemented

Rebel Core upgrade terminal UI — UI / UXIn-world terminal UI and tutorial messaging

Rebel Core character look development — Look devCharacter look development in engine

Rebel Core teal industrial environment — Look devEnvironment mood exploration

INFESTSTATION · Principal environment & hard-surface artist · Sole tech artist

INFESTSTATION blue-lit space station corridor — Environment artEnvironment pipeline, kit standards & the core shipped kit

INFESTSTATION red emergency-lit corridor — Lighting & materialsMaster materials, post-processing & lighting states

INFESTSTATION first-person gameplay with a flame unit — ShippedEarly Access gameplay with player tools & HUD

INFESTSTATION flame unit prop — Prototype meshesFlame Unit

INFESTSTATION cryo sprayer prop — Prototype meshesCryo Sprayer

Server and mission load UI storyboards — UXServer & mission-load flow storyboards

INFESTSTATION Crimson Drive Core objective prop — Prototype meshesCrimson Drive Core, a key mission objective

Arkheron · Bonfire Studios · World art, level tiles & tech art

Arkheron gothic hall with a central walkway and railings — ArkheronWorld art, layout & lighting

Card-based baroque scrollwork seen from the game camera — Tech artCard-based scrollwork: the visual bar, within budget

Arkheron level tile inside its boundary — Level designTiles that connect seamlessly on all four sides

Ornate railing kit and red leather chairs — Kits & propsRailing kit and furniture

Read the Arkheron case study →

AAA · Call of Duty: Black Ops III · Fortnite · Homefront: The Revolution

Call of Duty Black Ops III EMP launcher weapon — Call of Duty: Black Ops IIIEMP launcher, built around complex animation requirements · via Art Bully for Treyarch

Call of Duty Black Ops III long-range SMG — Call of Duty: Black Ops IIIModular parts so attachments swap in without visible seams · launch & DLC

Fortnite shark rocket launcher — Fortnite: Save the World"Shark Attack" launcher, from blockout to in-engine · High Voltage Software

Homefront: The Revolution construction digger — Homefront: The RevolutionConstruction digger, CryEngine 3

Fortnite spiked bow — Fortnite: Save the WorldWeapons · High Voltage Software

Fortnite bow — Fortnite: Save the WorldWeapons · High Voltage Software

Kinect Star Wars · Terminal Reality · Pipeline & level prototyping

Kinect Star Wars environment work: four in-engine interiors — Kinect Star WarsEnvironments

Modular corridor kit shown assembled and as a single piece — PipelineKit-based level building

Podracing terrain and track prototyping in editor — Pre-productionLevel-building systems prototyping, alongside the publisher's Technical Director

Whitebox blockouts and a top-down level layout — Level designBlockout whiteboxing

In-engine texture blending test on cylinders with texture channel breakdown — Tech artIn-engine texture blending exploration, Terminal Reality's Infernal Engine

02 · Leading the Vision

Direction

Creative and de facto game direction for INFESTSTATION and Rebel Core: pillars, systems design, boss and level design, and the lighting and art direction boards that kept every discipline aimed at the same target. Much of this job is making the vision easy for other people to act on.

Pillars & systems

INFESTSTATION game pillars board — INFESTSTATIONGame pillars, each broken into concrete goals

INFESTSTATION tension and horror design board — INFESTSTATIONWhat drives player tension: the horror framework

NERVe player wellness system planning diagram — Systems designNERVe, a stress & wellness system feeding other systems

GDC 2023 deck page presenting the NERVe system — GDC 2023 deckThe same system, presented for partners

Boss, level & encounter design

Rebel Core intro boss phase breakdown — Rebel CoreIntro boss: three-phase breakdown

Rebel Core Seeker boss phase storyboard — Rebel CoreSeeker boss phase storyboard

Rude Awakening station layout map — OCIX: Rude AwakeningInterconnected station layout for a pitch

GDC 2023 deck page on threat scenarios — GDC 2023 deckThreat scenarios & encounter mix

Art direction

Staged lighting direction board — Lighting directionStaged lighting states for gameplay

Rebel Core character design, original concept to adjusted pose — Rebel CoreCharacter design direction, with concept artist Grant Gosler

Stop Hiring Humans billboard concept — Rebel CoreWorldbuilding concept: environmental storytelling

Handheld scanner tool UI concept — INFESTSTATIONTool concept with UI readout spec

Rebel Core · Worldbuilding videoCinematic sequences for a world overtaken by machines · editing, music & all content by me

03 · Running the Business

Operations

As CEO I raised a $3.4M seed round, ran the board, and handled all pitch materials, planning, Steamworks operations, and marketing. The marketing was written from inside the game's world, not bolted on afterward.