Rage 2

Avalanche Studios & iD Software

Narrative Designer & QA Tester (2017 - 2019)

Rage 2 is a 1st-person shooter action game that combines fast paced gunfights with vehicle combat and exploration.

My first AAA game experience involved relocating from Scotland to Stockholm, to work as a QA Engineer on Rage 2. I spent over a year testing the game, and was keen to focus on the game’s narrative, becoming the narrative team’s embedded tester. From this role, I was trusted with some small narrative tasks, until in 2018 I earned myself a transfer into the narrative team as a cinematic implementation specialist. This involved learning how to use our cinematic toolset and some of the wider development techniques required to implement AAA-grade cinematics.

• Cinematic implementation.

• Writing and placement of narrative pickups.

• Character naming & other small-scale narrative tasks.

• A large range of QA testing responsibilities, from vehicle and weapon performance to level design and logic exploration.