I had a lot of fun working at Funcom. I started off on Conan Exiles supporting the designers as we built out features that improved core systems, added new content, and opened the door for future development. It was awesome working so closely with designers and artists to enable updates like the addition of a Quest system, new types of Companions, as well as the Living Settlements update that saw crafting thralls become full Unreal NPCs rather than just skeletal meshes attached to crafting stations.

After about a year on Conan I moved over to the Dune: Awakening project before launch. I spent several months with the Live team tackling critical issues and helping to stabilize the game before it launched (I dont know how many crashes and bugs I fixed but it was a lot!). As we got closer to launch I transitioned over to building out the Events system. I took ownership of the system and worked hard to meet some tight deadlines. The result was a flexible system that allowed us to design and launch time-gated events that had their own content without needing to do patches or hotfixes to enable them. We could even modify the behavior of the event content! Alas my time here is coming to an end. Funcom had to do a reduction in force after the game wasn’t able to bring in as much money as it needed to, given its overly long production time.