James Marshall Parker

Salty Duck Studios: Frikin the Laser Shark    

Lead Programmer, Level and Boss Designer                                        May 2018 – Current

• Worked with small team to create a bullet hell adventure game set in an underwater environment

• Lead the team in creating the health, respawn, and environmental systems

• Helped mentor teammates in coding practices

• Lead the team in weekly playtesting and debugging sessions

• Iterated and improved enemy AI based on feedback analysis

• Designing and developing roguelike system for official release

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Gateway Diver                                                                                                     Orlando, FL

Project Lead                                                                                                        January 2018

• Student game jam project

• Designed player controller to handle 2 characters that had to be switched between to succeed

• Iterated and improved upon various types of enemy AI, including a boss enemy with multiple abilities

• Implemented camera and UI mechanics that punished the player for making mistakes

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Project Team: Wormhole Hero                                                                            Orlando, FL

Designer, Lead Tester, Editor                                              October 2017 – November 2017

• Designed modular card-based strategy board game 

• Edited final overview of rule book 

• Lead team and outside play testers through play sessions to analyzing player experience, interaction, and satisfaction

• Collaborated with team members to port game digitally to Roll20

• Designed 15 unique monsters to challenge players

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Project Team: Murder in the Court                                                                     Orlando, FL

Setting and Class Designer                                                 September 2017 - October 2017

• Developed unique digital game through randomly assigned mechanics, presented through video format

• Translated digital version to analog, adapting mechanics for new approach

• Created game settings, playable classes, one of three levels

 

Project Team: Humanity: Lost                                                                            Orlando, FL 

Art Style Lead and Script Editor                                                                            May 2017

• Cooperated with 6 team members in designing, formatting, assessing a game video pitch

• Organized collaborative document, making initial creation process flow smoothly

• Drafted sample images for game’s initial art style

• Reviewed finished pitch script for story inconsistencies, style conflicts, grammatical errors

 

Project Team: Scraps                                                                                           Orlando, FL 

Lead Programmer, Level                                                               January 2017 – June 2017

• Worked under provided game design document to create a puzzle adventure game

• Constructed level design objective flowchart, map, 3D rendition

• Utilized Unity to craft three-dimensional level for setting, gameplay, player interaction

• Lead team in programming assets for environmental effects and hazards and a cohesive gamer experience

• Animated cutscenes to transition the player between levels