Destiny 2
Gameplay Designer – Sandbox/Rewards
Bungie, Inc. – 2022 to Present
Artifact
Destiny 2 features a rotating artifact designed to shift the buildcrafting meta by granting the player new powers and abilities. The player is presented with a grid of options where they can spend points accrued through progression to buy powerful new abilities. These abilities are designed with the intention to enhance underperforming content and showcase new sandbox content.
Episode: Revenant
Lightfall – October 2023
Guardians become Slayer Barons and upgrade their abilities with powerful tonics to confront the Scorn’s corrupted ether. Equip yourself with the powers of Stasis, shotguns, and grenade launchers to push against unholy forces.
Episode: Echoes
The Final Shape – June 2024
In the final showdown with The Witness you must harness both the Light and the Dark. No tool will go unused as the guardians stand together to protect the universe.
Season Of The Wish
Lightfall – November 2023
Become a Dragon Knight by harnessing the powers of the Solar, Stasis, and Strand subclasses. Charge your weapons with radiance and blast enemies away with powerful explosions.
Exotics – Armor
Exotic armor straddles the line between destiny’s world class gun play and it’s expressive ability-based build crafting. These armor pieces level up gameplay loops by adding novel bonuses, encouraging variety in build crafting. Designing these features is an iterative process fueled by collaboration with artists, animators, and engineers then honed by feedback from countless play tests.
Abeyant Leap
One of the first strand exotics released alongside the Strand subclass. Designed to pair with the Drengr’s Lash aspect, it makes your Titan a master of crowd control.
Cenotaph Mask
Inspired by “laser target designators” and science fiction laser targeting, Cenotaph Mask was designed to encourage cooperative play by rewarding focused fire.
Pyrogale Gauntlets
Transforms the Titan’s Burning Maul super into an single overhead slam dealing massive damage. The exotic gives players access to another one-shot super and some neutral game benefit.
Gifted Conviction
Designed to compliment the new Arc/Prismatic Hunter aspect, Ascension. Gifted Conviction ties survivability to your ability to apply jolt creating an aggressive and dynamic playstyle.
Speakers Sight
Transforms the Solar warlock support kit into a challenge of positioning and situational awareness. Become a battle priest by keeping your allies alive without being pulled out of gunplay.
Exotics – Weapon
Barrow-Dyad
Barrow-Dyad was a massive collaborative effort between myself, narrative, and activity design. The exotic changes as the player swaps their Paths within the Season of Heresy. The weapon features two distinct payouts that come from the same core play pattern.
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