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phone: 972.795.2120
email: house.austin08@gmail.com
skype: AustinT.House

Key Skills

DESIGN

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

ENGINES

  • UDK
  • Hammer
  • Unity

TOOLS

    • Material Editor
    • Photoshop
    • GIMP
    • 3DS Max
    • Maya

SCRIPTING

  • LUA
  • C#
  • Kismet

Work Experience

Working as Intended Studios – SMU Guildhall Capstone Team
Level Designer (13 Team Members)
  • Designed, implemented, scripted, and polished half of level one and half of level two.
  • In charge of the creation of a Boss fight with a dynamic environment.
  • Co-designed areas and combat sequences with 3 other designers.
"Hymn of the Sands"
July 2013 to December 2013  (6 Months)
Isometric Action/Adventure
Tweak 27 Studios - SMU Guildhall Team Game 2
Level Designer (9 Team Members)
  • Designed the initial layout design and co-designed the final layout.
  • Polished and iterated on the level with other designers.
  • Worked as a material editor artist for entire level. This includes Unreal Kismet scripting and Unreal Material Editor.
"RoboBall"
March 2013 to May 2013 (3 Months)
First Person Capture-the-Flag 
Xi Gaming – SMU Guildhall Team Game 1
Level Designer, (4 Team Members)
  • Worked with the team to create a game from concept to release using a proprietary engine.
  • Designed, implemented, and polished the first level and the boss fight.
  • Co-designed and balanced the gameplay and mechanics.
"Raging Sushi: Enter the Roll"
October 2012 - December 2012 (3 Months)
2.5D Action/Adventure
UTD Game Lab Team
Level Designer/Environment Artist (13 Team Members)
  • Worked with the team to create a vertical slice level from a concept.
  • Co-designed and polished the level with another designer.
  • Modeled and textured 7+ assets for use in the game.
"Edison Graham"
January 2012 to May 2012 (6 Months)
First Person Adventure

Individual Work

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
  • 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