Summary of qualifications
Extensive experience with:
- Graphic Design: Photoshop (sprite scanning & clean up, coloring, shading, line / art manipulation), freehand drawing (sketching, inking, hand coloring), sprite animation, storyboards, pixel art, character & environment design.
- Music Composition: Reason, Acid, Goldwave, Cool Edit, T-Racks. Genres: Dance, Orchestration, Rock, Pop, Electronic, Hip Hop.
- Character Design: Background story, portrait sketches, animation sequences.
- Game Design & Leadership: Team coordination, work breakdown & task appointments, public relations, business negotiations.
Major skills: Highly skilled at 2D art and design, especially freehand sketching and inking; 5 years of experience in Photoshop manipulating sprites and background design (including tiled); skilled at music composition and production with 2 independently released albums featuring collaborations with internationally recognized artists; previous experience with music production for video games (including O2Jam, Neon FM, 1D10); experience with independent game production (especially corporate relations, schedule management and production leadership); experience working within game development frameworks, especially Game Maker (used to produce acclaimed titles Return of the Space Cowboy and The Angry Video Game Nerd’s Angry Video Game).
Professional Experience
Nov 2007 - present: Freelance
Game Development
Games completed and currently in production:
Return of the Space Cowboy (PC based top-down arcade style shooter)
- Complete development cycle from concept to completion in 3 weeks.
- Composed and produced 14 audio tracks for in-game background music. Tracks created as 8-bit covers of popular Jamiroquai songs.
- Designed, created and animated full color 2D sprites and backgrounds for use in game.
- Designed AI within GML constraints to provide NPC (enemy and teammate) behavior.
- Designed animated game play arenas for nine levels (each containing 5 sub-stages).
- Utilized user feedback/play testing to improve game play experience.
- Available online for free download.
The Angry Video Game Nerd’s Angry Video Game (PC based 2D side scrolling platformer)
- Complete development cycle from concept to completion in 2 weeks.
- Composed and produced 12 original audio tracks for in-game background music.
- Cut and edited together in-game audio commentary provided by internet celebrity James Rolfe (The Angry Video Game Nerd). Each commentary track was triggered by in game events.
- Designed, created and animated full color 2D sprites and backgrounds for use in game.
- Designed movement routines for 26 unique enemies and bosses.
- Designed 8 stages using various modes of game play (including platforming and shoot ‘em up).
- Utilized user feedback/play testing to improve game play experience.
- Public release garnered wide spread positive reviews among gamers.
- Available online for free download.
Return of the Space Cowboy 2- The Space Cowboy Returns (PC based top-down arcade style shooter)
- Designed, created and animated full color 2D sprites and backgrounds for use in game.
- Designed AI within GML constraints to provide NPC (enemy and teammate) behavior.
- Designed animated game play arenas for 14 different worlds.
May 2006 - present: Project Leader, Founder - Flavor Grenade Studios
Baltimore, MD
Description of responsibilities:
Music composer and soundtrack organizer
- Wrote the entire soundtrack for the currently in-production game project “TPM.”
- Worked in collaboration with Hollywood musician Martin Blasick to direct and compose the soundtrack for “1D10.”
- Sequenced and engineered an independent album for release by Flavor Grenade Studios that ships early next year.
- Hand drew all sprites in “1D10.”
- Colored and edited stages and sprites for “1D10.”
- Designed characters, stages and storyboards for the in-progress project “TPM.”
- Created character design portraits for the “1D10” cast and comic-style story boards.
January 2004 – June 2005, Video Game Musician - O2Media
Malaysia
Description of responsibilities:
O2Jam online video game soundtrack artist
- Wrote electronic dance music for multiple genres (club, disco, funk, techno, trance).
- Responsible for keeping within the constraints of the game’s library of music (song length, genres, tempo).
- Composed “Zap”, a song popular in the community which stayed in game’s top 10 “most played” list for 3+ months.
February 2004 – August 2005, Music/Art/PR Director - Pop’nKo Music & Entertainment
Baltimore, MD
Description of responsibilities:
Music supervisor, composer & audio engineer
- Responsible for the selection and editing of music tracks for use in game.
- Wrote and recorded 1/4 of the music for use in game.
- Mixed together non-stop edits for challenge course stages.
- Composed production music for game menus.
- Designed menus and game play screens.
- Produced hand-drawn 2D characterizations of song list’s musicians.
- Designed game’s logos and title.
- Responsible for the Neon FM public image in the community.
- Contacted and enlisted musicians to work on the project with us.
- Negotiated $150k business deal with Betson Enterprises.
- Co-produced the Neon FM project with Pop’nKO Music & Entertainment.