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RAM

Nov - Dec 2022
Role: Producer & Narrative Design

Also: 2D VFX Art, Post-processing 
Production time: 5 weeks
Team size: 60+
Engine: Unity

Worked as producer for a team of app. 65 students during a 5 week Game Lab. 

Main takeaways:
- Cutting content (when, how, what)
- Leadership: guiding teams, support and direction, encouraging responsibility.
- Large teams: keeping track of multiple tasks, scheduling meetings, making sure teams had solid leads, information flow, etc.
- Post-Processing in Unity
- VFX

DUSTBORN
(Red Thread Games AS)

Jan - August 2024
Role: Game Designer

Worked on the polish phase of Dustborn.
Animation implementation, debugging, logic, staging, cameras, translation etc.

Release date: August 20

(Previously QA Sept - Dec 2023)

Available on Steam, Playstation and Xbox

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DISCONNECTED

April 2023
Role: Game Design

Also: F2P, Soundtrack, Tiles

Production time: 10 weeks
Team size: 3
Engine: Unity

Porting assignment of existing 2D game to Android. No changes to universe or title, but all art assets were created from scratch, new gameplay model and added F2P-model (part of assignment). 

Main takeaways:
- Porting to app
- Reworking existing game
- Monetization

- Android game

MIST: Below

Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
Role: Creative Director, Game Designer, Art Director

Production time: 2 months
Team size: 5
Engine: Unreal Engine 5.3

A 3rd person puzzle-platformer adventure, where the player uses their bond to a gadget as main mechanic.

Takeaway:
- Stylized minimalism
- Tech art
- Designing puzzle mechanics
- Not losing sight of core

Flightless

May - June 2032
Role: Scrum Master, art direction, 

Production time: 5 weeks
Team size: 6
Engine: Unreal Engine 5.1.1

A proof of concept on the theme "Games for Change". A game about loss through loss of game mechanics.

Takeaway:
- Unreal Engine 5
- Agile workprocess 

- Optimization
- Conforming creativity 

Detective Bull and the Sandhouse Train

April 2023 
Role: System Designer, Artist, Game Designer, Creative Director

Production time: 3 weeks
Team size: 2
Engine: Unity

A prototype for system design based on suspicion level (see State Flowchart under Documents).
Guards and NPC's react to the player stealing objects or wearing items with wrong class level.

Takeaway:
- System Design
- State Flowcharts
- 3D-modeling
- Systemic Game Designs

(Currently on hold, playable demo release in the future)

Edvard Paints the World

April 2023 
Role: Creative Director, Game Designer, Art Director, 3D modeling

Production time: 3 days
Team size: 3
Engine: Unity

A prototype for a game jam on the theme MUNCH. 
Currently under development.

Takeaway:
- 3D modeling (Blender)
- Restricting theme (Munch)
 - Limited time
- Shader Graphs in Unity

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I Don't Have a Ticket

April 2023
Role: Game Design & Pixel Art

Production time: 6 hours
Team size: 4
Engine: Unity

A prototype created on a 6 hour train ride without internet connection. 

Takeaway:
- Quick process
- Hard restrains (limited time, no internet)
- Scoping
- Team workflow

State machine flowchart

System design state flowchart for NPC's in a stealth/mystery game.

Part of a System Design Document for a game currently in production, click on picture to read the SDD.

Project: Detective Bull and the Sand House Train

Currently in production.

GANTT-chart

1/3 of a GANTT-chart for a 60-people production.
Click to see the entire chart.

Project: The Janitor's Tale (Pre-prod assignment, not in production as for now)

Still shot

Scene set up using sequencer in Unreal Engine 5, inspired by "The Little Match Girl".

Game Logo

Logo and Cover Art for the game "MIST: Below"

Concept sketch

Concept for simplistic art style and NPC demonstration in "Detective Bull and the Sand House Train".

Level Design sketch

Quick sketch for a short level in "Flightless", currently in production.

Level Design sketch

Map for a level in "Janitor's Tale". Part of an LDD for a Level Design exam. 

Click picture to read the LDD. 

Character Model

Lowpoly character model in Blender for "Edvard paints the world". Rigged in Blender, animated with Mixamo.

Building blockout

Quick building blockout from reference using Blender

Blockouts

Quick blockouts in Unreal Engine, only using shapes and modeling tool in Unreal Engine 5.