Game Design

All of my work, which pertains to games and the industry.

  • Transformers 2 DS

    I was the lead designer on the Battle For Earth feature for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen which boasted a pervasive meta-game multiplayer war between the Autobots and Decepticons.

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  • Jet Set Radio

    A brief excercise in game design, in which an existing title is chosen and only using the single player aspects and game mechanics several unique multiplayer modes are designed.

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  • Guitar Hero

    I led the community and user experience design for the Guitar Hero Online Community. This includes Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero Aerosmith, and Guitar Hero: World Tour

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  • Call of Duty

    I led the design of the Call of Duty: World At War community features and collaborated on the user experience design of the site wtih 2Advanced Studios.

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  • Transformers DS

    A unique project in which I was part of the design team that created the online meta-game and multiplayer for Transformers DS, called Battle for the Alsspark.

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Writing

One of the fundamental basics of "being" is writing. This, is my writing.

  • The Ocean Diver

    A fictional work in which the reader is put inside the mind of the main character whom is exploring the ocean.

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  • Enlightment Day

    A short non-fiction autobiographical work which was the result of free writing. A techinique where one simply starts writing exactly what is on their mind.

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  • Self Destruction

    A short non-fiction autobiographical work which was the result of free writing. A techinique where one simply starts writing exactly what is on their mind.

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Research

Nothing is perfect, and you can never stop learning. Thus, I perform research.

  • Semiotics

    The research of signs, fundamentals of story logic, and language grammars in an effort to develop a program which can produce story autonomously while conveying other aspects of language such as emotion, motivation, etc...

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  • Game AI

    A research paper done with collaborative efforts from Jodi Bernardini & Daniel Jones that analyzes the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence in games.

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Miscellaneous

My mind and I are all over the place. These are some of the results.

  • Web Engagement

    The web has rather standard metrics for quantifying traffic. But what about engagement? In an effort to devise a metric specifically for online communities I devised a formula - in collaboration with Jasaon LaPorte (http://lonelypinkelephants.com/) - that would measure online engagmenet.

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