Joined: October 2019

Left: January 2023

Roles: Senior Technical Designer, Technical Designer

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I joined Sumo Digital's Nottingham studio after returning to the UK from Crytek. My first assignment was eight months of co-development on Hogwarts Legacy, building out Avalanche's world events feature.

 

From there I joined the prototyping team for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Starting from a UE4 prototype inherited from another studio, we developed the cooperative mechanics through review with Gun Interactive, then took the game from vertical slice into full development in a fresh project. I stayed on through final polish and received my promotion to Senior not long before moving onto a different project.

 

Next I prototyped features for a third-person action adventure in the pitching phase: early UE5 AI characters, navmesh-based environmental breadcrumbing, player and cinematic camera tests, modular interaction systems, an inventory and pickup system, and non-combat player tools.

 

My final project was a demo built from an existing design doc. I led a small prototyping team for my last couple of months before leaving for Ubisoft - running daily playtests with actionable outcomes and implementing much of the prototype myself. I'm proud of the work on that project, and it was a nice way to finish my time there.