750m x 950m

• designed and pitched a map expansion, describing the r.o.i. and player investment

• designed and implemented 5 missions of different types

• worked within constraints of an un-editable landscape

• worked with marketing team to create a billboard asset, fitting into the space narratively and creating a player-engagement hotspot

• handled the audio ambience emitter placement

focused on:

• intentional objective placement to get players thinking strategically

• environmental storytelling to explain the expansion thematically

gameplay intentions:

• encourage strategic team composition based on the shifts from close-quarters to open spaces

• have players actively seek out cover or high ground to produce coordinated attacks

problems solved:

• internal testers kept dying to the boundary collision or hitting blocking volumes → adjusted positions of blocking volumes, and rearranged the layout of some set dressing to show players that the area ahead wasn’t playable

• one of the meshes used had problematic collision, resulting in the qa team writing up 200+ bugs of varying priority → quickly identified the mesh and bulk replaced it with a better one, double checking the visuals and collisions, and closing all the bugs within a matter of days