“The Lawless Frontier calls — an uncharted expanse where power alone isn’t enough. Every choice carries risk, and every alliance comes at a price. Navigate a world of shadows and syndicates, shape your legend through influence, and become the force that tips the balance.”

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Special Contributions:

• Renegade Abilities – designed, built, implemented this system consisting of nine base abilities with seven upgrades each. Your personal ship would fly by to deliver payloads such as a drone that heals and reduces cooldowns, laser blasts that obliterate armor, or a giant walking Behemoth mech. Upgrades could consist of more complex mechanical changes, ex:  the recon shank would go from revealing some treasure to revealing enemy invaders.
  • Set up temporary ability system while required engineering tech was still in progress, allowing playtesting of abilities and flow early into expansion development
  • Designed flow of “readying”, un-readying, and tossing abilities. Final version was flipping your coin to ready it, then tossing it out where it would trigger a beacon, summoning the special payload from your ship. You can see an unfinalized version of the flow for summoning a turret here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T4kk94e9b0
  • Balanced dealing, damage, and cooldowns in accordance with the unique health model of Renegade activities, responding to playtest feedback
  • Collaborated tightly with the sandbox team to ensure abilities are up to standard and scaled appropriately relative to the existing player kit
  • Scripted tool to quickly import numeric values from a spreadsheet into our proprietary engine, speeding up the balancing process
• Exfiltration – flare objects, lighting
  • We wanted exfils to feel tense and dramatic, a fight to survive before escaping. Design suggested dramatic red lighting, so I set that up, and it was greatly enjoyed in playtests.

Developer Livestream Special Shout-out

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“The final battle for control of the Echo of Navigation begins.”

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Special Contributions:

• Nether Boons
  • Built offering +  boon objects
    
  • Built buffs applied to player from boons
  • Minor boon stacking
• Special Relic sword + spawner system to destroy the Echo in final mission
• Court of Blades
  • Purchases and Upgrades such as Relics
  • Scoreboard integration so purchases + buffs work correctly
• Madness eyes & Suffocating Terror debuff — objects that detect when a player is looking at them, and apply a stacking debuff with special properties at specific stacks, special obituary screen
  • Scrambling radar (“hallucinating” enemies)
  • Worse aim
  • Death
    

“An aurora spreads across the stars, and from within its shimmering confines, a mysterious object materializes and falls to the surface of Nessus. Travel to the planet and begin your search for this object, known only as an Echo.”

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Special Contributions:

• Exotic Mission – Encore
  • Vex icons for puzzle mechanics — taking, placing, and managing functionality
• Secrets — proximity detector for secrets
• Data Mote System + Scoreboard interactions
  • Buffs related to mote holding, number of motes, progress bars, and telling failsafe to comment sassily on a player’s backpack amount
  • Special tech for dropping/retaining motes on death
• Hot-Cold Buff System — proximity alerts to items of interest
• Special Relics (Vex Head, Football)

“To pursue the Witness, Eris Morn must turn to the magic of the Hive and accept a deal that Savathûn crafted before her death. To honor our end of the bargain, Guardians must become masters of the arcane and harness the power required to defeat a god.”

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Special Contributions:

• Savathun’s Spire encounter centerpiece: Elemental Hazards
  • Void: Orb pulses with gravity, drawing players in and tethering them if they get too close.
  • Arc: Bolts of lightning flash around the arena, causing damage.
  • Solar: A wave of scorching energy emits in one large blast; players must take cover to avoid it
• Savathun’s Spire encounter centerpiece: Elemental Crystals
  • Void: An extra round-blocking shell surrounds these, players must get close and inside the shell to destroy it — unless they have a seasonal upgrade that allows them to shoot right through it.
  • Arc: One starts charged. Players must melee the charged crystal to receive a special buff, and melee the uncharged crystals before time runs out.
  • Solar: Heavy carry objects that deal damage over time to the player. But, they hit pretty hard. They must be dunked in the correct spot.
• Altars of Summoning: Ritual Progress Indicator

“In the aftermath of the attack on the Traveler, the Vanguard calls upon its closest allies. Guardians must master the righteous powers of the Awoken to stand against the encroaching Shadow Legion and prove themselves as Queensguard.“

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Special Contributions:

• Portal opening animations and functionality
• Exotic Mission: Destructible object gating based on exotic weapon Vexcalibur
• Mote pickup, storage, and dunking

“The Hive God of War moves to seize control of Rasputin’s network of weaponized satellites. In her hands, she would turn its devastating power on the Last City. To stop her, the Vanguard has authorized special covert operations armed with the Warmind’s most advanced weaponry. Agents conducting these operations are known as Seraphs.”

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Special Contributions:

• • Collaborated with animation, VFX, and investment to set up lighting and player state hookups for the season’s climactic in-game cutscene
    • https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jgexC3I0Pqk
  • Set up different game states in Season Hub based on individual player progress
  • Good Boy Protocol (pet the dog): set up interactivity, camera work
    • https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wpmPu8OS_LU