Guerrilla Games | Amsterdam | Regular Game Designer

Initially i worked on Horizon: Zero Dawn as a part of a small prototyping team dedicated to establishing the core concept and design. As the team grew i took ownership of a number of player character features with special focus on the traversal and combat.

• Initially part of the small scale prototype team that was responsible for creating the greenlight demo.
• Owned the design of the player traversal systems through entire development cycle including: base movement, climbing, rappel and swimming.
• Designed and balanced third person camera system for combat and traversal.
• Designed, balanced and oversaw the implementation for melee combat.
• Technical implementation of various traversal content
• Created & upkept player traversal bible.
• Liaising with level design team to ensure ease of us with traversal systems.
• Created benchmark test level climbing areas to prove best use cases.
• Designed contextual combat action system.
• Ownership of the bow combat implementation and game feel.
• Designed contextual player & character self-talk and animation system
• Pitched the initial proposal for the Photo-Mode

Robot Riding Bow Combat

Bow Combat

Contextual Animation Reaction System

Contextual Combat Kills

Rappelling From A Comm Giraffe

Robot Riding