Posts by RickLesley

  • Rick Lesley-Level Design/Combat Scripting

    Alright, so I changed the theme and I already like it a lot more. There is more room for images and videos, and less wasted space. Things added/changed:

    [*]Added gameplay for my Blacklight levels.
    [*]Added gameplay and descriptions about my missions for Marvel Super Hero Squad Online.
    [*]Added more info the my home page, including my role on each project.
    [*]Adde a page for Daylight, which Zombie just unveiled today at DICE.
    [/list]Thoughts on the changes?

  • Rick Lesley-Level Design/Combat Scripting

    Thanks for the responses you guys.

    -Top-downs for Blacklight are coming, but not for a bit. I took screens of them before I left and they are being used to create clear maps. I will hopefully have access to them when they are done.

    -The Marvel top-downs were meant to show the level logic, not the layout so much...but I guess I should make it a bit clearer.

    -Videos were up yesterday, but broke when I updated it with Metro. I am planning on adding them back tonight. I will also get some videos of Super Hero Squad's bosses.

    -I will take a look at other themes tonight to see if I can do away with some of the wasted negative space. I've been meaning to do that for some time.

    Thoughts on having content for a project on one page or is more than one okay? Blacklight is one really long post that is just going to get longer...

    Thanks for the help everyone!

  • Rick Lesley-Level Design/Combat Scripting

    I just added another one of my final Blacklight: Retribution levels, Metro. I think this next patch, which is rather large, will probably include all of my final work on the game...but I could be wrong

    I did the layout and a good amount of the deco for this map, since a lot of the artists were on other projects. The tunnels themselves were not done by me, but one of the artists.

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  • Rick Lesley-Level Design/Combat Scripting

    Hey guys,

    Sorry for the lack of activity. I redid the homepage so it was focused on the projects and not my stupid smirk. I've also added more work from Blacklight and Special Forces: Team X (which is up for pre-purchase and comes out on Steam in a few days http://store.steampowered.com/app/217860/). I am not longer working at Zombie as a level designer, but I am at Turn 10 doing work that I cannot really talk about right now

    I have added my most recent level, Decay, to the Blacklight page. I still have quite a bit more work to add, but it isn't all released yet...so SOON! I think I may break up the BLR page into separate posts for each level, with the newest post being an index of sorts. I will wait to do that until I have all of my content available for public eyes.

  • Rick Lesley-Level Design/Combat Scripting

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    It'd really help if people didn't need to dig for screenshots. Screenshots up front are essential. Goofy pictures are much lower priority It would also be nice to have a little more information per level (inspiration, process, goals, whatever).

    Hahaha, yeah I agree. The initial homepage could be a lot more...impactful. I will try and come up with something that gives people a good look at my work, while still being simple and concise. As far as the level inspiration goes, I could totally do that. I didn't even think that it would be something that people would be interested in reading about, to be honest.

    Thanks a lot for the feedback, I really appreciate it. I think improving my portfolio and streamlining things is something that I will start doing over time. Eventually I will probably get a better theme for the site. It is too narrow and is a pain the ass to display an image with the current width constraints. There is just a lot of wasted space that would help keep things down to about a page or two, max.

    10/19 UPDATE: I am going to start fiddling with a new theme, probably this weekend. We have a rather large content patch on October 30th with at least one of my new maps in it. I need to find cleaner way to display my BLR work, since there are going to be at least four more maps added to the page.