Tower of Babble is a fun new mobile game that combines word building with block stacking in a fun new experience where the player must build the tallest tower they can from the words they unscramble to make your very own Tower of Babble.

I worked in a collaborative environment with the team to outline their project and discussed and reviewed design principles, content and UX. Currently working on designs and mockups for the next update of the game.

• Current work
• Update Single Player User Experience
• UI Design Update
• Previous Work
• Design and Production Constultant

Kinect Star Wars is an experience built for the Xbox 360 and Xbox Kinect. There are several modes in the game and I worked on two of them. The first is Rancor Rampage. In Rancor Rampage you control various Rancors from the Star Wars universe as they rampage through different destructable environments in the same universe. I designed and built the Mos Espa level and bug fixed and maintained the other levels in the mode.

• Concepted, Designed and Built the Mos Espa level in engine
• Scripted level events, level boundaries and content for all levels
• Debugged and fixed all levels for scripting, gameplay and performance bugs
• Supported other disciplines for features, bugs and performance including art
• Playtested and tuned timings of events (including audio), point scores and placement of objects to maximize fun

Kinect Star Wars is an experience built for the Xbox 360 and Xbox Kinect. There are several modes in the game and I worked on two of them. The second is Jedi Mode. In Jedi Mode you played through the story of a Padawan fighting in different areas with other Jedi and against hordes of various enemies. In this mode I worked on the Speeder Bike levels. These were transitional levels where the player fought their way through waves of enemies in an on-rails experience with minor cutscenes and events.

• Designed and built the levels in engine
• Design and scripted events based on the story that was being told
• Lobbied for the inclusion of Yoda with the player in some of the levels and the addition of minor cutscenes to make Yoda more dynamic in the experience
• Placed world objects in the level, creating rythm sections, escalation of combat and difficulty
• Designed and tuned enemy combat patterns, damage and life totals for balance and difficulty passes

Kinect Fun Labs is a group of smaller experiences that were built to showcase the technology that the Xbox 360 Kinect could perform and how that technology could be adapted to games and gameplay. I worked on one of these showcase experiences called Kinect Fun Labs: Bobblehead. In the experience the player would scan in their face and it would be mapped to a bobble head. Then they would be able to pose the Bobblehead and place it in the environment. Once its placed they could play with it, knocking the bobblehead around.

• Scripted the entire flow in engine using UE3 and Kismet 
• Setup, placed and tuned all camera positions and transitions for each beat of the flow
• Setup animation timings for various beats, including the glove box opening and closing
• Playtested the experience, reporting and fixing bugs as they were found
• Brainstormed concepts for other Kinect Fun Lab experiences 

HoloLens was a once in a lifetime product and team to work on and with. HoloTour was even more so. From the first demo that I and 2 other people worked on to bring to life, to prototyping the capture sessions that enable the team to go capture on site, prototyping transitions and moving panoramas, getting the final concept together for the Tour Guide and the visuals that accompanied her tour, I am really proud to have worked on this.

• Together with 2 other people, built the initial prototype concept that would become HoloTour
• Led the first capture session with 2 other people through Seattle to define the initial capture and creation pipeline as well as build the first concept tour
• Prototyped the concept of moving panoramas and transition space in various formats (this feature unfortunately never made into the final product)
• Itterated on and built the prototype that led to the inclusion of and further concepting of immersive visuals for the user to get a better idea of what the Tour Guide was talking about
• Lobbied for and cocreated a lightwieght visual scripter in Unity that enabled other disciplines to actively participate in creating panoramas and tours 
• Scripted together in-panorama logic for pacing of the tour, concepted and scripted side events so the panorama was filled with things to look at and interact with, linked panoramas together and timed transitions, voice lines and other systems to create a seamless immersive experience

Worked with a team to prototype a development process that could engage with external partners, concept with them and build an experience and proposal/estimate for work in 2 weeks. Then led several engagements with external partners as we worked with them to concept and build short demos of experiences that aligned with their companies goals and objectives.

• Built a prototyping space and pipeline that could be spun up quickly, reused and adapt to whatever our clients goals and objectives were
• Ran this process over 5 times, each time interacting with a different partner group and successfully delivering what we promised everytime
• After each iteration we adapted and learned and made the process more streamlined as well as learned dos and donts when dealing with external partners
• Prototyped several experiences with external and internal partners, one of which directly led to a collaboration between Volvo and Microsoft with revealing their new generation of cars to the world
• This process was adopted by several other teams looking to engage with external partners as well and develop HoloLens experiences

Collaborated with a large team to create a next gen experience for the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2015. We built an advertising/marketing experience for HoloLens that showcased a highend watch sales pitch and the magic of what we can do with holograms. This showcase also highlighted the idea of building these experiences directly in HoloLens.

• Concepted the advertisement and what we would be showing in the experience
• Scripted the initial flow for the entire experience. Maintained the flow in a working presentation as it was shown dozens of times to most everyone to make sure we got the reactions and feedback we wanted
• Prototyped a version of the demo that was psuedo interactable to gives users the feeling of how would be working inside of the HoloLens
• Trained presenters in how to interact with and showcase the presentation inside of HoloLens
• Post the festival, I worked with one dev to transfrom the presentation into a standalone demo ran by a narrator so that the experience could be put on a roadshow that ran for the rest of the year in major cities across North America

Microsoft Edge was given the task to update the version of Edge on the Xbox One from its current iteration to the new code base so that all versions of Edge on all platforms ran through that same code base. I was given the task of modifying the Edge experience for controller and the 10ft experience on a tv.

• Researched and presented findings of other browsers in the 10ft space as well as how others handled controler input on various devices including PC
• Concepted and prototyped the interaction of the controller with the UI of the current Microsoft Edge experience
• Prototyped and user studied different UI schemes and paradigms to better gauge what Edge's current user base would expect on the new platform
• Mocked up, presented and got signed off on concepts based on feedback, user study and what was possible in the time alloted
• Vetted designs with other core groups, such as the Xbox Design Group to make sure that the designs coincided with their design principles

Math Ship is a concept that I came up with after discussions with a close friend of mine. The concept is to help make repetitive arithmatic lessons less laborous and more engaging by changing the way the user engages with the content. This is a prototype that I built in about 48 hrs spanned over a week. More itterations on this prototype are to come! 

• Identified the need and concepted various ideas and platforms with a collegue
• Built the initial prototype and deployed the prototype to my phone for testing
• Ran several people through the prototype, revieving feedback from each about the core idea and basic implementation
• Ideated on next steps, outlined work items and prioritzed them for next installment
• Built entirely in the UE4 game engine using nothing but Blueprint

The Supers is a top down sprite brawler based on comic book heroes battling it out in an arena. Each hero has an attack ability and a defensive ability that they can use to fight with. It is loosely based on the concepts of the arena on Sakaar and Civil War stories in the Marvel universe.

The Supers is a project that I have worked on with a close friend of mine for several years. It has gone through many itterations and rebuilds and it currently is going through another. It has been a great platform for me to learn how to build games from scratch and hone best practices and dos and donts for making a game. Updates and a showcase coming soon! 

• Took initial level built prototype and refactored everything that need to be out into their own entities and objects
• Built a deployable version that was playtested at several game nights over several months to get player feedback
• Concepted and built character pipeline and logic for fast iteration, character building and addition to the game
• Concepted character ideas, powers and what their role and fill was in the game
• Built an online server version for online play and testing, debugged network issues and deployed clients to testers

Progress is a shmup game I have been ideating on for a number of years now. The concept is that of a corrupted game. In the game you start as the last vestige of the uncorrupted game and have formed a ship to fight back the corruption. Enemies are made of corrupted bits. As you destroy them, the bits become uncorrupted and as you collect them you start to build the uncorrupted game back up.

I currently have a basic build and am working through gameplay concepts as those have changed in the last couple months. More on this coming soon!

• Ideated and concepted the idea with a collegue
• Itterated on concept and kept core ideas that stood out and felt novel and fun
• Concepted ideas for levels and have starte to prototype them
• Built an initial prototype that has some of the basics needed (player character, UI, enemies, etc) for prototype mid level elements in the game (bits and the idea of progress/tug of war)