Joe Graves

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Level Designer / Scripter         

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Welcome to my portfolio.

I am currently earning my Masters of Interactive Technology, and I will graduate in May 2009 with a specialization in level design.

During my time at the Guildhall, I have used scripting to carve unique gameplay from the Unreal and Hammer editors.  I look at a physics engine calculating "bullet + zombie = ?", and I wonder if it might also be used for some kind of incredible shark-jumping sequence. 

I like to see what happens when things work just so, and scripting allows the rapid prototyping and refinement that these ideas require. 

I am consumed by the aesthetics of our medium.  I want to make games where we argue over the loping gait of our protagonist just as often as we point at our conflicting damage spreadsheets.  I believe that games are more than the sum of their parts, and I can't wait for the opportunity to prove it.

Please feel free to contact me about anythig you see here, or really anything at all.

Cheers,

Joe