SAM WEY

Bullet Time AR

Founder, Creative Director, Coal Interactive

• Designed and developed Bullet Time AR, a visceral, slow-motion FPS for mobile AR.
• All aspects of production, managing contractors, social media marketing, and publishing. Production is ongoing.
• Extensive Blueprint scripting, A.I., AnimBP, UI, and design iteration.

Fresh Out

Creative Director, Sandman Studios

• directed the VR narrative, Fresh Out, which was selected and made its world premiere at Venice Film Festival (La Biennale di Venezia)
• overhauled production and implemented scrum. Under a tight deadline, lead a team of 10 to success
• leveraged a broad Unreal-Engine skillset

Jurassic World VR Expedition

Senior Designer, The Virtual Reality Company

• Extensive research, planning, and high-level game design for the VR LBE Jurassic World VR Expedition which was deployed at more than 100 Dave & Buster's arcades across North America.
• Composed numerous level design documents with an emphasis on interactivity and narrative

Follow Me Dragon

Senior Game Designer, The Virtual Reality Company

• Leveraged A.I. scripting and animation logic into a spatially aware AR character with a ground-breaking sense of presence in the real world.
• Created with Unreal-Engine and Apple ARKit, Follow Me Dragon was the #1 paid, entertainment app in the Apple App Store and a demo version was installed on devices in Apple Retail stores worldwide.

Dead Alliance

Game Designer & Senior Level Designer, Illfonic

• Composed system design documentation and Blueprint scripted single player, wave-based survival mode for the zombie FPS, Dead Alliance.
• Wave data tuning, multiplayer class tuning, and weapon tuning.

Friday the 13th: The Game

Game Designer & Senior Level Designer, Illfonic

• Utilized Unreal 4 for level layout and iteration for Friday the 13th: The Game.
• Content design documentation for strategic map elements.
• Prototyped alternate game mode from scratch; utilizing Unreal Blueprint, Behavior Tree, Environment Query System and existing assets.

Abzu

Level Designer, Giant Squid Studio

• Collaborated with a small team, including Matt Nava, the art director of the award-winning game Journey to create a visually rich and emotionally compelling underwater narrative experience.
• Level design, documentation, papermaps, layout, and scripting.
• Leveraged Unreal Matinee and visual storytelling skills to implement the introduction and climax of the narrative.

Star Citizen

Senior Level Designer, Illfonic

• Designed the first public-facing, competitive, FPS multiplayer map for Star Citizen using CryEngine.
• System design, level design and layout for unannounced game mode.
• System design documentation for team deathmatch mode.
• Level layout, scripting, and cinematics for first public-facing FPS demonstration level at PAX.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric

Senior Level Designer, Illfonic

• Carried two local multiplayer levels through production.
• Rescued another two levels that were in danger of failure.
• Utilized CryEngine for design, layout, and scripting under a tight deadline.

Lost Planet 3

Level Designer & Sr. Environment Artist, Spark Unlimited

• Primary responsibility for the entire final act of the single player campaign and three multiplayer levels.
• Level planning, BSP layout and iteration in Unreal 3.
• Utilized Unreal 3 Kismet scripting for gameplay prototyping, level streaming, and cinematics.
• Environment art asset production with Maya and Zbrush.

Raiders of the Deep

High Level Game Design Pitch, Spark Unlimited

I was given the responsibility to compose a game design pitch document and PowerPoint presentation for a triple A title to be pitched to Microsoft. I managed the support of two artists and was able to bounce ideas off of the veteran designers around me. Now that Spark doesn't exist anymore, I think it's safe to show this.

Failsafe

Game Designer & Level Designer, Game Over, LLC

• High level game design document and level design for the third-person, parkour game; Failsafe
• Restructured narrative in order to reinforce core gameplay mechanics, while maintaining narrative themes.
• Paced out narrative exposition to coincide with introductory tutorializing of gameplay mechanics.
• Level layout for vertical slice in Unity engine.

Project Advena

Game Designer & Senior Level Designer, Illfonic

• High-level game design for Project Advena.
• Reworked narrative structure and core mechanics.
• Level design for first act, AI Scripting, and Blueprint prototyping.

Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness

Character Modeler, Nickelodeon Animation Studio

• Created models, UVs, proxy meshes, high quality deformation clusters, and robust blendshape sets for numerous prominent characters for Kung Fu Panda television series.
• Maintained meticulous quality under tight "television" deadlines.

Fanboy & Chum Chum

Character Modeler, Nickelodeon Animation Studio

• Created models, UVs, proxy meshes, high quality deformation clusters, and robust blendshape sets for numerous prominent characters for Fanboy & Chum Chum television series.
• Maintained meticulous quality under tight "television" deadlines.

Legendary

Environment Artist, Spark Unlimited

• Team lead for last level of the game. Maintained lines of communication between departments.
• Created a library of high quality environment assets the next-gen game Legendary, utilizing the Unreal 3 engine.
• Setdressing, streaming, asset management, shader network setup, BSP editting, dressing, lighting and matinee animation.
• Mentored and managed new team members.