BATTLEPLANS

C4M

Role: Game Producer, Intern
Team Size: ~5-10
Year: Spring 2015
Duration: 14 Weeks
Platform: App Store & Google Play

Pitch: Save the island kingdom from the evil Skull invaders: Take back your lands, free your heroes and build an army to claim your victory! Sail into battle in online PvP, and reclaim lost resources using cunning defense and careful strategy!

Concept Statement: BattlePlans infuses unique squad tactics into an action-packed strategy game. Command your troops directly in stylish real-time clashes of epic proportion! Attack enemy camps or lead a powerful defense as you and your online enemies battle for valuable resources.
 

What I did:

• Create and assign user stories and tasks to each team member using Pivotal Tracker.
  

• Operate in Sourcetree, Github, Unity3D.
  

• Regression and Ad-hoc testing throughout agile development.
  

• Matrix testing for every playable character match-up.
  

• Provide creative direction and detailed feedback on game balance and tuning.
  

• English translation for in-game dialogue and external communications. (C4M, Prod. is primarily French.)
  

• Develop short game demos for potential publishers and media.
  

• Run and update all social medias including Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Tumblr (Blog).

RIPPLES

Senior Capstone (Spring Semester)

Role: Producer, Video Editor, Sound Director
Team Size: 9
Year: Spring 2016
Duration: 32 Weeks
Platform: Steam Greenlight (Windows), Google Play

Concept Statement: Ripples is a rhythmic arena dueler where players are martial arts masters fighting on water to the beat of music. Players jump automatically to the beat of music, and generate a damaging ripple when landing on the water’s surface. The player’s offensive and defensive options are collapsed into movement, which is in turn dictated by the music. Ripples is an experience where music is not just an accessory to the mechanics, but a driver of action.

What I did:

• Create Proposal Outline, SWOT Analysis, Market Analysis, Competitive Review, Project Plan and Presentations for each milestone.

• Create and assign user stories and tasks to each team member using Redmine.

• Lead Agile process meetings, including Scrum, stand ups, and kickoffs. 

• Track and record team hours to maintain deadlines, reduce scope and mitigate risk. 

• Schedule, attend, and operate bi-weekly QA sessions.

• Record Gameplay with ScreenFlow and create Official Trailer using Adobe Premiere.

• Organize 1 on 1 sessions with group members to assess feedback and individual morale.

• Hire and work 1 on 1 with student musicians Killer Valley (Tyler Killer) and Dangeresque (Jackson Roe) to create 5 exclusive RIPPLES tracks and SFX, each representing a character's personality. (Listen below!)

RUFFIANS

Senior Capstone (Fall Semester)

Role: Producer, Video Editor, Sound Director
Team Size: 4
Year: Fall 2015
Duration: 14 Weeks

Pitch: Ruffians is a fast paced party game where you’re able to sit down with your friends, shoot at each other in a dusty saloon, and rack up your bounty to be the baddest dog in the west.

Concept Statement: Ruffians is a 2-4 player action-oriented twin stick shooter party game where friends are able to sit down on a couch together and enjoy a feeling of unbridled rambunctiousness usually reserved for rough-housing dogs. Players have 20 rounds to shoot at their friends, wreck the saloon with petty crimes, and rack up their own bounty to be the baddest dog in the west. In the arena, players will be playing as the dog of their choosing to shoot & dash simultaneously in an attempt to knock off the hats of other cowboy dogs to turn them into regular dogs. To reflect the hyperactivity of dog nature and unlawfulness of bad cowboys, players can commit petty crimes such as barking, destroying the environment, and unique events that allow the cowboy dogs to knock over trash cans and gnaw on socks for more bounty.

What I did:

• Create Proposal Outline, SWOT Analysis, Market Analysis, Competitive Review, Project Plan and Presentations for each milestone.

• Create and assign user stories and task to each team member using Redmine.

• Lead Agile process meetings, including Scrum, stand ups, and kickoffs. 

• Track and record team hours to maintain deadlines, reduce scope and mitigate risk. 

• Schedule, attend, and operate bi-weekly QA sessions.

• Organize 1 on 1 sessions with group members to assess feedback and individual morale.

• Record with ScreenFlow and create Gameplay Demo using Adobe Premiere.

• Work with student sound designer / musician Peter Orzell to create 2 exclusive Ruffians tracks including main theme and battle, and additional sound effects.
  

• Sound Design for in-game effects and player feedback. Coins, barking, shooting, barrels, selection, etc. (Listen to SFX examples below!)

VIDEO BINGO / MONDO BINGO

Game Show Network

Role: Game Producer, Intern
Team Size: ~8-10
Year: Summer 2014
Duration: 14 Weeks
Platform: Website, App Store & Google Play

Video Bingo Pitch: Choose up to 4 cards and activate extreme power ups for more chances to win big! Get ready for Rocket Boosts, Wild Balls, Bonus Patterns and more! Will you get 5 in a row?

Mondo Bingo Pitch: Play with 10 cards and see how many different Bingo's you can make with 36 numbers. Earn bonus balls for every bingo, up to 10 extra balls. Claim prizes for each bingo you have and you can win big!

What I did: 

• Lead cross-functional teams for production of revenue-boosting features.
  

• Operate in JIRA to assign stories, groom backlogs, and manage sprints.
  

• Record, organize, and distribute meeting notes on Confluence wiki for team viewing.
  

• Assign stories, groom backlogs, and manage sprint cycles.
  

• Facilitate daily scrum meetings, stand ups, retros, and kickoffs.
  

• Reproduce user-reported bugs and document defects.
  

• Build verification and Ad-hoc testing on Time Limited Content.

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• Maintain latest builds on iOS devices using HockeyApp for play test sessions.
  

• Attend weekly intern check-in, resume builder, LinkedIn, and overall professionalism sessions.

DUNGEONS OF BORTHEZ

Game Production 2 - Champlain College

Role: Producer
Team Size: 5
Year: Spring 2015
Duration: 14 Weeks

Concept Statement: Dungeons of Borthez is a local multiplayer, competitive, asymmetric, split-screen, dungeon crawler. In the game a large creature named Borthez races against three adventurers through a dungeon that he built to protect his vast amounts of wealth. The goal is to become as powerful as possible so that when they finally meet he can defeat them. Both Borthez and the adventurers are player controlled with one player controlling Borthez and three controlling adventurers. As the players make their way through the dungeon they kill monsters and gain experience and powerups which will help them in the final battle.

What I did:

• Create Proposal Outline, SWOT Analysis, Market Analysis, Competitive Review, Project Plan and Presentations for each milestone.

• Create and assign user stories and task to each team member using Redmine.

• Lead Agile process meetings, including Scrum, stand ups, and kickoffs. 

• Track and record team hours to maintain deadlines.

Team Salty Boots of +2 Intellect
Matt Leta - Producer
Jack Storm - Programmer
Brook Chipman - Artist
Jeremiah Warm - Designer

EDUCATION

Champlain College – Burlington, VT
B.A. Management of Creative Media, Game Production specialization

University of Advancing Technology – Tempe, AZ
A.A. Game Design