Jake Reicher

Immortals Of Aveum - Ascendant Studios:

• Designed puzzles and platforming sections for a first person shooter.
• Owned a main level (Underdwell), additional challenge shrines, as well as supported LDs on other levels including the HUB world.
• Designed a unique enemy archetype with added game mechanics to support them within my level.
• White boxed layouts, and took levels from paper to ship quality.
• Supported as a part of multiple feature strike teams that were testing and integrating new gameplay systems. This came with check-in authority for other LDs as well.

Far Cry 6 / Post Launch:

• Designed & produced main/side missions across the campaign including the final mission and Stranger Things DLC
• White boxed layouts and worked with artists to implement my own and the directors’ vision for mission spaces
• Designed last mission’s city streets and central villain building, as well as side content locations
• Worked with narrative to create a balance between gameplay and story
• Created surreal and otherworldly missions that introduced exotic gameplay mechanics e.g teleporting ai, breathing underwater, horror moments, trippy puzzles

Watch Dogs Legion:

• Worked with procedural mission systems while combining and customizing them to create the main/side missions for the campaign
• Collaborated closely with the narrative teams to write each of the beats / scenarios for missions
• Contributed to the development of our technical tools as part of a design/ scripting strike force that was implemented for the second half of our development cycle.

Far Cry 5:

• Owned two unique walk and talk missions for the campaign
• Scripted ai guiding the player through an open world while delivering narrative and supporting in combat
• Built open world locations to support the missions
• Scripted a chase sequence as well as various hostage scenarios and combat encounters
• Traveled to sister studio in Montreal to meet with technical leads and hammer out requirements/needs for missions which were using systems and techniques our engine was not accustomed to
• Updated resource and learning documentation to reflect any changes or additions we needed to make throughout the project
• Created paint overs of terrain adjustments and sculpted roads, paths, and mountainous regions for mission play spaces.

Far Cry 5:

• Created a new cinematic scripting pipeline for designers that would get ramped on to the project
• Prototyped a new procedural cinematic that was used in the games kidnapping sequences

For Honor:

• Lead the other Cinematic Designers in their day-to-day tasks, helped with technical issues and chased up other departments to support their work
• Created and managed JIRA tasks for myself and the rest of the team
• Redistributing work and managing sprints to alleviate pressure from team members
• Created in game and pre-rendered cutscenes
• This involved creating scripts, integrating animations, VFX, Lighting, SFX, Music, Dialog, as well as importing props, characters and sets to Motion Builder
• Acted and recorded pre-viz binks for integration in game
• Acted as in engine technical support during mo-cap shoots
• Helped measure in game scenes and set up motion capture sets for shoots
• Created character gyms for every possible character customization for each in game faction
• Created individual character files for each class/customization
• Organized cinematic characters by army and displayed them for handpicking cinematic background dressing

Far Cry Primal, Assassins Creed Unity, Splinter Cell Blacklist:

• Scripted in game cutscenes
• Integrated and setup the timing for Dialog, Music, SFX, VFX, Lighting
• Created scene files, imported characters, props and sets for animators
• Key framed some prop and VFX animations
• Scripted dialog systems with player selected responses
• Acted and recorded pre-viz scenes for integration
• Dressed scenes with background characters, animations, VFX, scripted ai and decals