Conan Exiles

Role: Senior Game Designer

Genre: Open world Survival

Developer: Funcom

Platform: PC, PS4, XBOXOne

Period: Feb 2019 – Jul 2020

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Responsibilities:

Multiplatform Survival Game
Design and tuning of horse riding and mounted combat
Design of follower leveling system
Content updates and bug fixing for live game
Design for Isle of Siptah expansion

Conan Exiles is a survival video game developed and published by Funcom for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The game is set in the world of Conan the Barbarian, with the custom playable character being rescued by Conan, beginning their journey.

What did I do on this project.

Isle of Siptah expansion:

Design, prototyping, balancing and implementation of the Surge feature
Design for the temperature system rework
Design for the Rhino mount, balancing of saddles and crafting materials
Refactoring of spawning system and map selection to allow modding support

Live Updates:

Design, balancing and partial implementation of Mounts (horses) and Mounted Combat (one-handers, lances, spears) for the Riders of Hyboria DLC
Design of Pet Leveling system and progression
Content update for the NPC capitals (Buccaneer's Bay, New Asagarth, Mounds of the Dead) with level design, new items, crafting recipes, NPCs and dialogues
Extension of the weapon and armor mod kits, weapon oils
Refactoring and updates for the buff system
Bug fixes and balancing updates

Mounts in-depth look, dev stream:

Lance Combat Lance is the only weapon in the game that takes relative velocity of targets into account to calculate damage
Mounted combat Handed weapons (swords, maces, axes), spears and bows
Wild Surge Randomly summoned throughout the island to supply players with thralls
Surge Clan summons the Surge and defends captured thralls from challenging players
Tower Tower charging to summon the surge
Pet and Thrall leveling Each companion can be leveled up to increase it's combat efficiency and utility
Mounds of the Dead Capital City update including new NPCs, enemies and a quest for legendary armor set
Buccaneer Bay update New items, enemies, NPCs, crafting recipes, environments, armor and weapon sets

Volodymyr

Gerasimov

Role: Senior Game Designer

Responsibilities:

Conan Exiles

What did I do on this project.

Isle of Siptah expansion:

Design, prototyping, balancing and implementation of the Surge feature

Design for the temperature system rework

Design for the Rhino mount, balancing of saddles and crafting materials

Refactoring of spawning system and map selection to allow modding support

Live Updates:

Design, balancing and partial implementation of Mounts (horses) and Mounted Combat (one-handers, lances, spears) for the Riders of Hyboria DLC

Design of Pet Leveling system and progression

Content update for the NPC capitals (Buccaneer's Bay, New Asagarth, Mounds of the Dead) with level design, new items, crafting recipes, NPCs and dialogues

Extension of the weapon and armor mod kits, weapon oils

Refactoring and updates for the buff system

Bug fixes and balancing updates

Mounts in-depth look, dev stream:

Lance Combat

Lance is the only weapon in the game that takes relative velocity of targets into account to calculate damage

Mounted combat

Handed weapons (swords, maces, axes), spears and bows

Wild Surge

Randomly summoned throughout the island to supply players with thralls

Surge

Clan summons the Surge and defends captured thralls from challenging players

Tower

Tower charging to summon the surge

Pet and Thrall leveling

Each companion can be leveled up to increase it's combat efficiency and utility

Mounds of the Dead

Capital City update including new NPCs, enemies and a quest for legendary armor set

Buccaneer Bay update

New items, enemies, NPCs, crafting recipes, environments, armor and weapon sets

Volodymyr

Gerasimov

Role: Senior Game Designer

Responsibilities:

Conan Exiles

What did I do on this project.

​Isle of Siptah expansion:

Design, prototyping, balancing and implementation of the Surge feature

Design for the temperature system rework

Design for the Rhino mount, balancing of saddles and crafting materials

Refactoring of spawning system and map selection to allow modding support

Live Updates:

Design, balancing and partial implementation of Mounts (horses) and Mounted Combat (one-handers, lances, spears) for the Riders of Hyboria DLC

Design of Pet Leveling system and progression

Content update for the NPC capitals (Buccaneer's Bay, New Asagarth, Mounds of the Dead) with level design, new items, crafting recipes, NPCs and dialogues

Extension of the weapon and armor mod kits, weapon oils

Refactoring and updates for the buff system

Bug fixes and balancing updates

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Mounts in-depth look, dev stream:

Lance Combat

Lance is the only weapon in the game that takes relative velocity of targets into account to calculate damage

Mounted combat

Handed weapons (swords, maces, axes), spears and bows

Wild Surge

Randomly summoned throughout the island to supply players with thralls

Surge

Clan summons the Surge and defends captured thralls from challenging players

Tower

Tower charging to summon the surge

Pet and Thrall leveling

Each companion can be leveled up to increase it's combat efficiency and utility

Mounds of the Dead

Capital City update including new NPCs, enemies and a quest for legendary armor set

Buccaneer Bay update

New items, enemies, NPCs, crafting recipes, environments, armor and weapon sets

Isle of Siptah expansion: