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phone: 972.795.2120
email: house.austin08@gmail.com
linkedIn: Austin House 

Key Skills

DESIGN

  • World Building
  • Level Design
  • Game Design
  • Rapid Prototyping

ENGINES

  • UE4
  • Source
  • Unity
  • Creation Kit
  • idTech

Software

  • Photoshop
  • 3DS Max
  • Microsoft Office
  • Confluence
  • Jira
  • Perforce

SCRIPTING

  • LUA
  • C#
  • Blueprint

Work Experience

Designer, Bethesda Game Studios (Aug 2018 - Present)

Fallout 76 - Nuclear Winter
Action RPG, Battle Royale, Multiplayer
  • Developed and produced the Morgantown map for Nuclear Winter.
  • Co-developed the mode under the Lead Designer.
  • Designed and wrote documentation on new features and abilities.
  • Co-balanced the weapons and the loot distribution.
Unannounced Project
  • Worked on a small team prototyping out a new game.
  • Prototyped, designed, and documented new features and mechanics.
  • Built the main level and other test levels for incoming features.
Starfield
  • Worked as a designer on multiple unique systems involving many different disciplines.

Level Designer, Escalation Studios (Oct 2014 - Aug 2018)

Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus DLC - The Freedom Chronicles
Action FPS
  • In charge of two levels, from idea to creation and implementation, focusing on differing character abilities and combat styles.
  • Co-designed and implemented the challenge missions
Team Fortress 2 - PassTime
Multiplayer FPS
  • Co-developed the mode alongside a small team.
  • In charge of the full creation of all three levels.
Doom 2016 - Snapmaps
Single player, Multiplayer FPS
  • Developed two official multi-level adventures (The Core + Elite Series) using the in-game tool Snapmaps for upcoming free DLCs.

Individual Work

Personal Project
  • ​This map was a personal improvement project for learning more about custom game modes and creating a balanced - but not fully "mirrored" map. 
  • Battle it out in an Aztec courtyard in this fast-paced 2v2 aim map for CS:GO!
"aim_temple"
Made in 24 hours
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Directed Focus Study using the Portal 2 engine
  • Created 3 single player levels in Portal 2 based around the new mechanic of time travel.
  • Use time travel to go between the present (decayed, broken, and full of foliage) and the past (clean and fully functional).
  • Solve puzzles by going back and forth through time!
"Portals Through Time"
February 2014 to April 2014 (12 Weeks)
Portal 2 Single Player
Directed Focus Study using the Gears of War engine
  • Created a single player level in the Gears Universe devised around the new mechanic of an-rails shooter.
  • Through heavy Kismet modification, changed the gameplay to an on-rails shooter with a custom HUD.
  • Implemented a "moving" train level. 
"COG Crisis"
May 2013 to July 2013 (8 Weeks)
Gears of War Single Player
Level Design 6 using the Half Life 2: Ep. 2 engine
  • Designed a Half Life 2 level around the mechanics of rising water, gravity gun combat, and jumping.
  • Fully displacement cave environment.
  • Gravity gun only combat in an Antlion cave.
"Gordon Rising"
 August 2013 to October 2013 (8 Weeks)
Half Life 2: Ep. 2 Single Player
CEVO-CSGO Mapping Competition
  • Designed, implemented, polished, and released a CSGO bomb/defuse map in 3 months for a competition.
  • Features custom art assets in a unique oil-rig environment.
  • Received placement in top 15 out of over 50+ entries.
"Petrol"
 January 2013 - April 2013 (3 Months)
CSGO bomb/defuse map

Education

  • Professional Certificate in Digital Game Development
  • Southern Methodist University: Guildhall, Plano, TX
  • Student Nominated Honors for Portals Through Time
  • Bachelors in Arts and Technology
  • University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
  • Phi Theta Kappa Academic Honors Society
  • Collin College, Plano, TX

2012 to 2014

2010 to 2012

2008 to 2010