Portfolio

 
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Brandon Franklin

 

Canvas

Sagas Studios

Game Designer

Canvas is a first-person puzzle adventure game where the world is blank until you paint on it!

  • Owned the full design for the project from ideation to public demo

  • Designed open world environments, core story beats, and systemic puzzles

  • Developed a new IP with support from contractors for the Steam store

Untitled Project

Disruptive Games

Senior Game Designer

Project [REDACTED] is an online multiplayer PvPvE action/adventure 3rd person shooter that kindles creativity and fosters positive social interactions.

  • Owned the design of narrative systems, progression, and the core gameplay loop

  • Created open world resource and content distributions, POI levels, as well as a core content discovery system

  • Developed a new IP based around doing missions, collecting resources, and extracting with your team

Minecraft

Mojang

Senior Game Designer

The Minecraft Marketplace is an ecosystem of developers that create user generated content for players to enjoy with guidance from Mojang.

  • Helped form and lead a team of designers working on additional Minecraft content released on their marketplace

  • Gave feedback on the design of a variety of maps designed by Mojang and their Partners

Minecraft Earth

Mojang

Content Designer

Minecraft Earth is a AR version of Minecraft that you can play in the real world. There’s a curated content that can be found in real locations.

  • Defined stories and layouts for curated Minecraft encounters

  • Iterated on designs using player data to refine the core player experience

  • Released new content highlighting different gameplay systems in a Live Ops enviornment

Fallout 4 VR

Bethesda Softworks

UX Tester

Fallout 4 VR is a total recreation of Fallout 4 to be playable in VR. It’s an open world post apocalyptic shooter like no other.

  • Provided extensive feedback on the transition of player UX from console to VR

  • Participated in daily triage of bugs

Doom VFR

Bethesda Softworks

UX Tester

Doom VFR is a whole new Doom experience with kinetic, fast paced VR gameplay that takes what makes Doom great and makes it even more viseral.

  • Provided early UX feedback on a new Doom experience for VR

  • Gave feedback on levels, progression balance, and story beats

 

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Bethesda Softworks

Level Tester

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is a first person shooter to rival the classic original. Adding in an emotional story to the dark shooter’s setting.

  • Early level tester for DLC content

  • Gave feedback on flow, functionality, and pacing

  • Participated in daily triage of bugs