ABOUT ME
Skills:
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Project management/Jira/Youtrack:
Tracking progress via tasks and uploading any tasks needing to be completed
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Photoshop:​
Photo editing, creating logos for UI, designing maps, diagrams and documentation
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Game Engines/Unreal Engine:​
Blueprint coding, player characters, game modes, and level mechanic actors. Ai Behaviour Tree, blackboard, and tasks. Level editor, lighting, landscape editor, foliage editor and brush editing.
Microsoft Office:​
PowerPoint presentations, Excel data tables and graphs, and Word for game documentation
Modelling Software/3DS Max/MagicVoxel:
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Modelling and unwrapping assets. Creating mini maps and landscapes for reference and designing.
Substance Painter:
Painting assets
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In House Engine/Code Language:
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Able to adapt to in house engines/code efficiently and affectively
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About me
Hey! I'm James, a Game Designer formerly worked for Playtonic Games for 3 years. TIGA Designer Graduate of the year 2022 and Nominated for TIGA Outstanding Designer Graduate of the year UK Games Education Awards 2022. Graduated with a First Class Honours at Staffordshire University, BSC Hons Computer Games Design. I'm a dedicated, exceedingly passionate and team-oriented Game Designer with a mission to produce new exciting experiences using the environments! Possessing 6 years of experience as a designer, I understand what makes both level and gameplay engaging, challenging and satisfying to the player.
In my spare time, I enjoy learning and fabricating songs from my guitar, exercising at a gym as well as partaking in sports, reading both books and comics, along with playing games with friends and family. In 2022 I was nominated for Outstanding TIGA Graduate of the year award and won 1st place in Level Design for GradEx22.
Soft Skills:
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Project management/Jira:
Tracking progress via tasks, uploading any tasks needing to be completed and assorting tasks with the highest and lowest priority.
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Communication:​
Microsoft teams, Email, Discord and LinkedIn is used to communicate with others by setting up meetings/calls and communicating via text before or after meetings. Keeping clear and precise dialogue towards colleague.
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Planning:​
When planning a project and ideas, Pen with paper and Microsoft word is used to write down all the ideas into a document. MindMeister allows me to place all the ideas for the game and further develop upon those ideas by making a mind map of the entire project.