Ryan Mattson
Lead Level Designer @ Free Range Games
About
I'm a game and level designer with interest in systemic gameplay. Skills: level design, game design, team leadership, individual mentoring, high-level concept development, cross-team collaboration, market positioning, public-facing studio representation and game presentation, design/bug triage Shipped titles: Near Death (PC) The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (360, PS3, PC) BioShock 2: The Protector Trials (360, PS3, PC) BioShock 2 (360, PS3, PC) Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars (Wii)
United States
Portland
Computer Games
Gameplay, Level Design, Game Design, Console, Game Development, Management, Console Performance, Xbox 360, Video Games, Perforce, Unreal Engine 3, PS3, Unreal Editor, Computer Games, User Interface, Game Mechanics, Casual Games, Social Games, Mobile Games, Endocrinology
Experience
Lead Level Designer
Free Range Games
San Francisco Bay Area
- Lead Level Designer on The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria (2023) - Level Designer on The Callisto Protocol (2022)
Lead Level Designer
Double Fine Productions
San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on Psychonauts 2.
Designer
Orthogonal Games
San Francisco
Co-designer on Near Death (http://neardeathgame.com, released August, 2016), in which you explore an abandoned Antarctic research station in order to find your way home.
Senior Designer
Red Accent
San Francisco, CA
Senior Level Designer
Crystal Dynamics
Lead Level Designer
2K
Shipped The Bureau: XCOM Declassified for the 360, PS3 and PC.
Level Designer
2K
Worked on two levels for BioShock 2.
Lead Designer
Red Fly Studio
Currently working as a designer on Mushroom Men, an action-adventure game for the Nintendo Wii. Responsibilities include level design, system design and design direction on micro-level encounters, as well as design production. Leading team of level designers/scripters. Working closely with lead artist and lead programmer to ensure look & feel and gameplay systems align with design direction. Represented studio and game press, in print and video interviews. Experience presenting game to partners and distributors. Participated in focus tests. Provided design consultation on Mushroom Men DS, Ghostbusters Wii and Ghostbusters DS.
Junior Designer (contract)
Amaze Entertainment
Designer on unique game prototype for Nintendo DS.
Junior Designer
BreakAway Games
Preproduction and prototype development for original stealth-action IP to be on next-gen consoles.
Implementation Engineer
Bazaarvoice
Worked closely with client tech teams to implement rating & reviews software on ecommerce sites, for businesses of all sizes.
Education
University of Washington
Linguistics
Student linguistics, with a focus on computational linguistics.
University of Washington
Linguistics
Graduated with Honors in Linguistics. Received Annual Dean's List award for 2004-2005.
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