Seewon Park

Bless Unleashed- a MMORPG for XBOX, PS4 & PC made by Round8

Bless Unleashed is an MMORPG for XBOX, PS4 & PC, developed by Round8 Studio.

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Position

• Lead Dungeon Designer

• Lead NPC Combat Designer

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Major Tasks

• Planned and managed schedules for a team of 5 designers.

• Built and managed the pipeline for content design and implementation.

• Supervised the design and implementation of dungeons and monsters.

  • Gave direction on encounter, level, combat and system design.

  • Suggested practical ways to visually deliver design concepts.

  • Reviewed and gave feedback on implementation methods.

  • Tested, reviewed and gave feedback on the outcome for tweaking.

  • Organized test sessions and managed the detailed balancing.

  • Managed quality assurance issues.

• Educated the new designers.

  • Workflow and team vs team communication methods.

  • Data and asset structure.

  • Tool utilization and implementation methods.

  • Debugging and solving issues.

• Create blueprints, macros and scripts to enhance the production efficiency.

• Evaluated and gave feedback on the team member's performance.

• Designed and expanded systems for dungeons and NPC combat, and tools.

  • Functions and triggers for AI

  • Functions for scripting (using lua)

  • Functions and data structure for skills, traps and projectiles

• Responsible for dungeon optimization.

  • Managed asset usage.

  • Supervised memory usage and pre-loading

  • Managed draw distance and server grid size.​

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Major Achievements

• Participated as main designer in the optimization process.

  • Established and implemented rules for optimization​ of design assets.

  • Established rules for chunk management.

• Redesigned the AI tool.

  • Redesigned the layout and filter system to enhance usability.

  • Designed the blackboard system.

  • Added and redesigned over 50% of the triggers and functions.

• Redesigned the skill system while preserving over 18,000 existing skills.

  • Redesigned the data structure, split the skill settings and hit settings into separate systems.

  • Enabled multi hit skills, allowing different timing, ​area of effect, damage and functions for each hit.

  • Added multi conditional skill canceling.

  • Added condition based skill linking. (allows skills to chain based on conditions without being called by AI)

• Designed and implemented multiple ​dungeons.

  • 2 arenas (out of 14) for 2 players (single boss encounter)

  • 2 lairs for (out of 10) for 5 players (single boss encounter)

  • 5 dungeons (out of 10) for 5 players (classic dungeons with 3 bosses and traps and minions)

  • 1 abyssal dungeon (out of 8) for 5 players(elite version of normal dungeons, with additional mechanics)

  • 1 tutorial dungeon for 1 player (the openning dream dungeon)

• Directed, designed and implemented the PAX DEMO.

  • Won 2 awards and got nominated ​for best of show award.

• Supervised and directed the design and implementation of dungeons and field monsters.

  • 8 arenas, 6 lairs, 4 dungeons

  • 8 world bosses and over 40 elite monsters

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