Unannounced Title

This game was in development at Meta, Sanzaru Games before the studio was shut down in 2026.

ROLE: Senior Combat and level designer

TOOLS: Unreal Engine 5, Autodesk Maya

BOSS FIGHT DEVELOPMENT:
- Owned the design and implementation of SEVERAL large-scale boss fights, owning all the 3Cs, for an unannounced AAA action title, including systemic tech and tuning pipelines.
- Developed all the systems needed to implement bosses FROM SCRATCH while collaborating with engineers.
- Took boss fights from paper to implementation while leading multi-disciplinary teams that included artists, narrative and level designers, AI and player engineers, animators and producers.
- Developed unique combat choreography for each boss.
- Each boss fight spanned 3 phases and 4 cinematics with about 10-12 minutes of gameplay time for each boss.
- Tuned combat pacing, readability and responsiveness to enhance combat feel.
COMBAT DESIGN:
- Developed initial combat arena framework for the entire game.
- Prototyped several new combat mechanics on my own in Unreal Engine.
- Developed enemy-player interaction metrics for different classes.
- Paper designed and implemented 2 classes of enemies.
- Developed spawn behaviors for different enemy classes.
- Wrote spec documents for several features that needed to be redesigned from the ground up including AI patrol paths, AI navigation.
- Developed several enemy mechanics used across different enemy classes like jumping up to different nodes in the environment, sliding around the arena.
TOOLS DEVELOPMENT
- Championed development of tools needed to implement boss fights.