Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville

Technical Design

Built boss encounters, including mega-boss Dreadwood; scaling to support 1-4 players
Scripted character abilities and diverse AI behaviors, including an ‘unalert’ AI system that would be proof of concept for open world PvZ
Implemented AI for numerous characters, including bosses and their special abilities
Built ‘DPS box’ tool that would eventually be used in automated testing framework to authentically measure damage calculations used for game balance
Collaborated with UX engineer to build a data-driven progression system as well as in-game store features which served players across live service lifecycles

Led the design of live service activities, overseeing one other designer
Created a recipe to generate monthly activities like ‘Valenbrainz’ and ‘Luck of the Zombie’
Prototyped multiplayer game modes to extend our single-player maps: scripted game modes, organized the playtests, collected & evaluated feedback, and iterated