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Alex Lueck - Game Design Demo Reel

Title: Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
Bug Logging / Tracking
Regression / Certification / Smoke / Spot testing on a wide range of devices and consoles
Technical customer service
Various technical creation and maintenece
Writing and maintaining test plans
QA liasion between game team and rest of QA
Hiring manager
Involved in the design making process
Mentor others in essential QA responsibilities

A gif showing off the gameplay of Full Throttle

Full Throttle - Bike Model and Environment Screenshots

A gif showing off the HUD of Full Throttle

Columbia College Chicago - Bachelors of Arts (2015)

Samples of some of my work

A gif showing off the level design of Dym

Dym was an original concept that I came up then merged with another idea in college.
I had the privilege of leading a small team of people from various disciplines into developing a vertical slice of the game.
Over the course of 15 weeks we concepted the idea and built the entire verticle slice from scratch.
I was primarily in charge of the art and design of the game.
Part of our preproduction process included making a GDD explaining all of the facets of the game. Since the game was never released and we were in college, the GDD is out of scope.
Ideally, Dym was going to be Metroid-vania / Contra like with waaaaay more work on the time ability.
Main features included: Plane switching, killable enemies, working ‘slow time ability’, working weapon arm, explorable environment, spline camera, and an intro! Take a look at the Dym GDD!

Dym - Dym / Slug /Hover Slug Models

You can download the zip files from this Google Drive link: Dym Demo Package
Once you download and extract the files you can follow the ‘README’ contained within for more instructions.
Also included is the intro cutscene, which did not make it into the Demo build but I still wanted to show it off <3

A gif showing off the level design of Dym

A gif showing off the Skull Kid level

The Skull Kid was a college project in which a small team just a made a vertical slice of on original concept in a few weeks.
Disciplines were split up amongst the students, who then worked collaboratively to put together a GDD and vertical slice.
The Skull Kid takes place in the world of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask but from the view of the Skull Kid
For this project I was the Level Designer
Ideally, this is where the game would start. Having players go around the village causing mayhem, resulting in the eventual theft of Majora Mask.
Main features included: Skull kid model, Spline camera intro,working mini-map, and multiple objectives [although the footage only depicts 1 objective]

Charred Alive - Simulation and Serious Games Level

Charred Alive was one of the first college projects I worked on (you can tell by the level design lol)
Was designed for a Simulation and Serious games class with the intention of teaching people about fire safety
Players started on the 2nd floor of a burning building and had to successfully and safely get out of the building in a limited amount of time, while following the fire safety procedures.
Ideally, there would have been a quiz before you started the level, then you would take what you learned in the quiz and apply it to the simulation.
Main features included: Testing door knob temperature, staying low beneath the smoke, pulling alarms, and prompting players about not using the elevator.