My first AAA title and it is one of the biggest/longest running in Sports Video Games:
Working for EA is truly eye opening and I cannot recommend this company enough to everyone. If you are looking for a game company to work for look no further!
Content Designer on Super Star Mode:
Helped on Narrative - Creation of Text Message Sequences and certain triggering scenarios.
Helped Create code for Player Signing Contracts
Balancing of Player XP
Balancing of Medal Thresholds on Mini Games
Completed research and creation of combine data
Implemented directives from lead designer
Bug Testing and Tracking
My Favorite Task:
The most fun I had on this project was having to do research and creation of data that did not exist. In the NFL combine, for the bench press event, QBs don’t usually participate. So for our mini game of the combine, ranking these QBs was not possible.
I was given the task to, “make some data up.” to fill in these blanks. So I went throughout the history of the combine, found all the QBs that had participated throughout the years. Got their totals, height, weight, and proceeded to make a model where I could input the new QBs height and weight into the formula and it would generate a random number within the range of actual QBs of the past.
Two things I had to make sure of when the numbers came through. One QBs could not have the highest amount of reps as they are not the most strong players on the field. Two, had to make the numbers a realistic goal a player could reach with the current strength given to QBs in Madden starting. It was a lot fun and probably the most memorable part of combine project for me.