God of War: Ragnarok

Role – Sr. Staff Technical Designer

Overview
For Ragnarok, I was responsible for creating the architecture for the UI as well as implementing a wide variety of UI systems, from full vendors/shops to progression systems, accessibility, HUD features, and more. As part of my responsibilities, I run daily stand-ups, bug-triage, plan sprints for the whole UI team, interface with various teams, mentor junior developers & oversee the long-term technical plan for UI tools and workflows. I occasionally drive the wireframe process, author VisualScript solutions, and collaborate with external teams. I was also a major contributor to the NG+ patch, which introduced new an increase to the Level Cap, Shop QoL improvements, Expanding the Niflheim Arena, Skill Mod+ and much more.

Supported Features & Experience

Out-of-Box Experience / Game Calibration
Front-End Menus
Saving/Loading Schema
Player Message Architecture/Queuing
QTE System
Healthbar Implementation
Responsive Character Animation Pipeline
Menu/Window Architecture
Experience with Static Data
Technical experience supporting a wide number of Accessibility features
Script Optimization

Inventory Systems
Long Term Progression System Design & Support
In-Game & In-Menu Tutorial Architecture
Credits
Localization support for 28+ languages including Arabic & Thai
Dynamic Layouts
Customized Lists/Buttons/Toggles/Sliders
Text-to-Speech (TTS)
Authored custom Visual Script nodes
Memory management

I had the tremendous fortune to talk in-depth about my work for Ragnarok at GDC 2023 – ‘God of War Ragnarok’: Building the UI for a AAA Sequel.

It takes a whole village to build UI on the scale we’ve become accustomed to at Santa Monica. The following are screenshots of UI features I was directly a part of supporting. Though I cannot claim full credit as I worked alongside some of the best UI folks in the industry.

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