Max Southerton - Game Designer

After spending 2 years as a tester at Cloud Imperium I earned my opportunity as a Systems Designer on the Mission feature team. In this team I would be tasked with creating new missions and events for the game. Since the game is an ever expanding MMO with eyes to the future of it's development I design mission and create re-useable module which can be used to piece missions together for future use.

I have had the amazing opportunity to work on the biggest event the game has seen, Siege of Orison, whereby I did level design work on some of the new areas on the floating island platforms the player must fight through as well as AI gameplay setup for the locations. I worked closely with other teams and departments like Art and lighting to create a polished and interesting environment for the mission to take place.

After working on the big event I was given the responsibility to revamp and create new content in the prison, an area of the game that players are sent to as punishment for breaking laws in game where they must work to reduce their time and be released. I created a new mission whereby the player must escape the prison and retrieve an item along the way which must be uploaded to a satellite nearby and the player will be rewarded with a clean slate. To go with this new mission I added AI to the mines in the prison to make it feel more alive, these AI carry loot on them which can be looted and sold for reduced time via the new selling system I added to the prison.

I am looking forward to creating more missions for the game and developing my skills as a designer creating modules and mission logic that will be reusable in the future and also be fun for player in our live servers.