Walter Marino
Level Designer / Game Designer

Company

Gameloft

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Employment Type

Full-time Remote

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Time

April 2022 - August 2023

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Genres

Open World, Battle Royal, Third Person Shooter,

Online PvP/PvE Multiplayer

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Pitch

"It’s all about the money in the city that never sleeps. Grab your gun, jump in a competitive playground, and use the streets to your advantage to become the richest Gangstar in near-future New York, in an all-out competition for cash."

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What I contributed to:

Level and Mission Design tasks:

• Designing, Implementation and Tuning 20+ in-game events, encounters & missions

  • Bringing the Lead Designer guidelines to life by Desingin missions & encounters, implementing them using Unreal Engine's Blueprint 

  • Placing Enemies and Props in the mission/activity’s layer

  • Gathered feedback during playtests & adjusted issues

• Overhauled 3 Tutorials to fit the new Project’s Scope

  • Played the old tutorials and checked the documentation

  • Pin-pointed deprecated content & bugs + various fixes

  • Suggested crafting new ones since the Project's evolved

• Updating open-world areas for combat moments

  • ​Started from already the existing project maps

  • Communicated with colleagues to avoid overlapping

• Design, implementation and tuning of Enemy Encounters

  • Owned the "narrative variations"

    • The issue: encounters felt too similar to each other

    • I proposed to Randomize their visuals and behaviour​

    • Successfully quadruplicate the number of encounters

• Designing, Implementing and Tuning in-game Points of Interest

  • We needed to increase the "PvP moments"

  • I introduced a tower that briefly shows players nearby 

• Producing documentation and GDDs

  • Studies & documentation related to missions/activities

  • Proposals about Armor Systems and grenades

• Feedback gathering and elaboration

  • Providing bug reports, and issues found during playtests

  • Fixing issues and bugs when presented of founded

• Mentoring juniors and interns on several occasions

  • Working in the Open World, avoiding technical issues

  • Providing best practices & know-how

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What I learned

• Learning how to Script with Unreal Engine's Blueprints

• Workflow differences between indie projects & AAA ones

• Learn to cover only one hat and be specialized in that field​

• Clearly communicate ideas in interdisciplinary environments

• ​Being ready to retouch & reinvent old designs, mine and not

• Listening & learning from my colleagues and my mistakes