Posts by Beck

Earlier in the year I got promoted to Lead Level Designer at Rebellion.

My website is down, can we update the link on my name to just point to my twitter? https://twitter.com/Beckmech Cheers!

Hey guys,

We have multiple experienced (or higher) level design roles available here at Rebellion right now. We're working on something big and new!

Job posting here: https://careers.rebellion.com/#/job/7E052E40C1

The advert says Warwick but we'd be open to any studio being your "home" studio and of course we offer a hybrid working environment.

If anyone is interested give me a shout and I can get you referred and I'm happy to give any feedback on portfolios and CV's too!

We've also got a bunch of other design roles open at the moment too

EXPERIENCED GAME DESIGNER https://careers.rebellion.com/#/job/4269C57690

SENIOR MONETIZATION DESIGNER https://careers.rebellion.com/#/job/ECF580F902

SENIOR ECONOMY DESIGNER https://careers.rebellion.com/#/job/B105A0D677

LEAD GAME DESIGNER https://careers.rebellion.com/#/job/4449757E38

..and more! We're on a big recruitment push at the moment so if there's anything you can't see on the website feel free to get in touch as there's probably more roles upcoming soon.

Cheers!

So when are we getting our Cloverfield walking simulator?

Very impressive though!

I think people still enjoy cinematic trailers. I do myself as they're just nice to look at. They're kinda like short movies I guess and help to set the scene for the game. The cinematic trailer we put out introduced a new feature of our called the Axis Invader where players can invade your game as an enemy sniper to try and take you down which has a lot of fans of Sniper Elite excited.

Not sure who did the voice over for it but I think it was meant to be Churchill. I don't think it did harm though, the feedback we've been getting has been very positive so far!

Hard to believe that other thread was 3 years ago!

Really excited that SE5 is having trailers released now, I love this stage of the project as the public gets to see more and hype starts to build!

Never really played a souls-like game but this one has really got me interested. I think I just prefer how it looks more open world and has a few more mechanics like crafting and stealth over other DS games. Beat the first boss in DS3 once but kinda got overwhelmed by all the stats etc when levelling up I just put it down and never went back.

This just looks really good though so I'm really tempted.

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On 1/12/2022 at 5:21 PM, will2k said: I remembered your post last time about pre-2010 gaming era nostalgia and I'm noticing this awful trend now for most games, where the graphics nowadays are getting photorealistic but the games themselves are getting dumber and too mainstream/simplistic.

Yeah I was talking to one of the level designers at work about this today. I'm finding it harder and harder to find a game I can really stick with and put a lot of hours into. Whereas 10+ years ago there were quite a few games that I would really enjoy and put many hours into.

Now some of this is probably down to me getting older, having less time to play, my friends not playing as much and my tastes changing. But then I think about Battlefield 2042 and how bad that's been received. Before it came out and all we had were trailers I was pretty hyped for it. I wanted a modern day Battlefield like BF2, BC2 or BF3 but with modern graphics and that's exactly what the trailers looked like. Obviously, that never came to pass and I cancelled my pre-order after playing the beta. But if DICE/EA did release a modern day BF2 I reckon I could really dedicate some time to it.

Now, I guess we're in the minority since the games industry is pulling in some serious cash. The masses must be loving it but I guess most of the money is going into a small number of franchises (COD, LOL, Pokemon, Mobile games etc).

I dunno, maybe when we can't progress with graphics any more without a significant jump in graphics power the games will get better and we'll focus on the gameplay instead?

Old man shouts at cloud!

Does look great. Basically caught up with all those movies where I used to say "Imagine if games looked like this!"

Got promoted to Assistant Lead Level Designer a couple of months ago at Rebellion!

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I gave it a go on stream and quite enjoyed it, finished the first two chapters. Will probably continue it, kinda gave me Alan Wake vibes in terms of gameplay but god damn are the black bars annoying! No real idea what's going on in terms of story but I'm sure all will make sense soon enough!

Mostly Dead by Daylight when I get some downtime (Currently free on Epic by the way!) but I am doing some charity streams this month so might dig out Skyrim and if I hit a goal I'll do a scary game. Someone sent me Evil Within (is it scary?) so will potentially play that!

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On 11/11/2021 at 11:00 AM, will2k said: I'm not into fantasy RPGs, nor do I play them but this soundtrack is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

And I'm with you about pre-2010 gaming nostalgia.

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Happy to hear you enjoyed it. It kinda makes me sad but listening to some of this music takes me back instantly. Jeremy Soule's music is great.

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58 minutes ago, blackdog said: Best way is if you know anyone inside, @Nysuatro took me around EA Vancouver (where possible).

What a guy. I miss working with him!

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On 10/15/2021 at 7:04 PM, syver said: Couldn't it pull some players out of the experience if you're consistently getting killed by a character, although different player, with the exact same look, repeatedly? I assume the reason they did it like this is for marketing reasons (?). Either way, wouldn't it be more fitting to give the players more options of customizing themselves, so to strengthen the theme that they're individuals serving as fodder in a large-scale battle? Just seems like a missed opportunity for me and I'm struggling to see the benefits of having them be distinct characters.

I realize that for hardcore players this is barely relevant, but in order to create these players they would have to get them interested to begin with. Just seems a bit jarring that's all

I was only talking about the Hazard Zone game mode. I still think have the same specialists on both teams in any other mode is rediculous. Apparently, there is going to be a lot of customisation, and some people are saying this will help players differentiate people, but unless EA/DICE force different teams to have different colours/skins it's not going to help at all. You could still have the same characters looking the same on both teams. A colour change in itself isn't ideal either as the silhouettes of those characters will be the same on both teams too.

I just meant this same situation never bothered me on other games where you have small teams sharing the same characters. BR games PUBG, Apex, COD and other shooters like Tarkov.

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On 10/14/2021 at 4:59 AM, Bunglo said: Same. I didn't play bf4 until years after it came out, so maybe that skewed my view of it, but it just didn't do it for me like bf3 did. I think we just have to except the fact that we all got to experience a pretty special time in gaming. There's been some incredible ones that have come out in recent years but damn, 10+ years ago we were getting hit with games left and right that forced a fundamental shift in the industry. That's why, nostalgia aside, we still look back and point to them as examples of greatness.

For sure. We lived through the golden age of gaming I feel and it could just me being old and shouting at clouds but I don't feel like modern games suit me well. There aren't many new games I enjoy like I did back in the late 90's to about the early 2010's.

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See, this is where the specialists work. You and 3 mates. You know who your friends are and where they are since you're most likely on Discord with them. Everyone else is an enemy. It doesn't really matter that everyone else is playing the same characters like in other BR and Tarkov-like games.

Other modes in BF2042 really could do with having classes back and everyone plays a nameless soldier unique to their faction. But I guess that won't bring in the dollars from skin sales. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Man, I really am an old man shouting at clouds

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11 hours ago, Bunglo said: I cannot be defeated

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I think BF3 was the last time I truly enjoyed Battlefield. BF4 was ok but never really enjoyed the levelution, usually it would make the map worse for me.

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6 hours ago, Buddy said: This is how I read it and thought it was just hilarious

Haha, life in a pandemic got us going crazy.