Borderlands Zero | Portfolio

Borderlands Zero was a second year project developed over the course of 3 months by a team of 20, 14 Designers and 6 Environment Artists.

As the Lead Designer my contributions include:

Creating and updating the Game Design Document
Delegating tasks and scheduling deadlines
Organising playtest sessions and documenting feedback
Organising and presenting the Design half of the Presentations
Keeping close communication with the Art Lead about the games needs and changes
Frequently discussing ideas with the team to make sure they are well thought through and challenged
Consistently questioning the scope of the project and cutting when necessary
Helping my team members with in design work in and outside of engine when necessary
Jumping into engine work to make sure deadlines were met
Discussing and working closely with the art team when it came time to art pass
Set up and run the teams Trello to keep tasks updated and accessible at any time
Listing and prioritising bugs as and when they were found
Developing, recording and editing the Vertical Slice of the project
Constantly give constructive feedback to the designers work throughout
Organise and run team meetings
Prototype mechanics
Block out locations
Player Feedback
UI Iteration
Implementing and developing puzzles
Merging everyone's design and art files into one master file to be worked on, and fixing all the bugs that would come along with that