The Guildhall at SMU
Soundtrack
- 1 - Play Soldier Theme.mp3
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- 2 - Gosners Gallant For Freedom.mp3
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- 3 - Red Luck District.mp3
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- 4 - Fancy Foal Station.mp3
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- 5 - Glorias 96th Ward.mp3
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- 6 - Kong Katastrophe.mp3
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Play Soldier
Team Role: Assistant Game Designer / Producer
Engine: Unreal Tournament 3 Team Project (UDK)
Team: 16 students (7 artists, 3 programmers, 6 designers)
Development Time: 16 weeks
Tasks:
- Maintained Sprint task lists and project schedule for team members
- Created documentation for the team (Asset List and Development Plan, Game Design Doc)
- Developed overall game design with other team leads
- Planned and worked on in-game Matinee sequences with team members
- Composed custom Play Soldier soundtrack and managed audio for the game
Description:
Play Soldier lets players experience blowing up childhood toys in a six year-old's imaginary city. Players cause tons of destruction while liberating their city from the evil dolls of their older sister.
The more destruction players cause, the more excited they get. More excitement means access to cool powers like smashing surrounding enemies with a toy T-Rex and firing more rockets!
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Elastiball
Team Role: Lead Level Designer
Engine: Unreal Tournament 3 (UDK)
Team: 7 students (3 artists, 1 programmer, 3 designers
Development Time: 8 weeks
Description:
Elastiball takes team sports games to a new level of excitement by introducing a fun slinging mechanic as players race to score goals!
This mod includes seven scoring areas that featured unique slinging environments.
Tasks:
- Wrote Level Design Document to support the game's design and vision
- Implemented a custom menu system using Kismet, Unreal Script, and Unreal's UIScene editor
- Placed art assets within two goal scoring areas that took advantage of the game's slinging mechanic
- Placed art assets throughout the level to create fun transitions around seven goal scoring areas
- Communicated the game's level design during team presentations
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Evacuation
Game: Gears of War mod
Build Time: 8 weeks
Description:
This single player level was created as part of a directed focus study assignment over the course of eight weeks. Evacuation provides an alternate scenario for players as they escape from the Fenix Estate.
My focus for this project involved creating unique memorable experiences that culminate in a high-quality level.
Tasks:
- Designed a complete single-player mission
- Created 3 Matinee sequences to communicate mission goal and player progress
- Extensive Kismet scripting to create combat encounters
- Blocked out BSP, textured, lit, and placed gameplay meshes/assets
- Composed 2 original piano pieces
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Sanction
Game: Gears of War mod
Build Time: 2 weeks
Description:
This Gears of War level features a continuous combat sequence in a single room. The action never lets up and combat flows around the room. Enemies approach from side doors, air vents, and an amergence hole.
This project was part of a two week assignment where we spent one week creating a visually polished interior space. The second week was used to add and refine gameplay to our space.
Tasks:
- Designed a one-room combat sequence
- Blocked out BSP, textured, lit, and placed Gears of War assets
- Utilized Kismet scripting to create combat encounters
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Crossfire (DM-17)
Game: Unreal Tournament III
Build Time: 4 weeks
Description:
This multiplayer map for Unreal Tournament III demonstrates my creative re-envisioning of the classic DM-17 map mixed with the frenetic action and intense firefights from the game, Crossfire (TM Milton Bradley).
A highlight of this map allows players to launch out of custom modeled Crossfire guns as they rack up the frags. Another unique feature involves a time-triggered soundtrack that plays a snippet of the Crossfire theme song.
Once the song completes, orbs of energy fire from custom modeled Crossfire game pieces on the two lower levels of the map. This encourages player movement to the top tier or else they risk taking damage from the crossfire below (ie: the catchphrase "you'll get caught up in the...Crossfire!"
Tasks:
- Modeled custom Crossfire pieces in 3ds Max to serve as cover and remain consistent with the theme
- Kismet scripting for audio sequence of Crossfire theme
- Created a map based off DM-17 to simulate an arena in space using Unreal assets
- Lit the environment to simulate a space atmosphere
- Utilized particle effects from Unreal to simulate a space atmosphere
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