Looking for a full time remote position in Level Design or Technical Level Design.
Thomas Pretat
Level Designer
Hello !
Level Designer with 6+ years of experience in AAA game development. Shipped titles include Star Wars Outlaws, XDefiant, and The Division 2:
Warlords of New York. Skilled in crafting open world combat spaces and mission flow for AAA Shooters and Action-Adventure titles, from sandbox layout to encounter scripting. Strong
focus on player experience, cross-discipline collaboration, and iterative design.
I'm looking for new opportunities, check my Resume or my Portfolio below !
Technical Level Designer
(July 2024 - September 2025)
Worked on both Star Wars Outlaws and an unannounced project as a Technical Level Designer. Supported the Level Design team with debugging, tools (Python), prototyping gameplay ingredients and feature development.
Ubisoft Annecy
Level Designer (March 2019 - July 2024)
Worked on Star Wars : Outlaws, XDefiant and The Division 2 : Warlords of New York as a Level Designer. Blockout layout design and iteration, scripting, and collaboration with multiple teams.
RingZero Game Studio
Level Designer Intern (June 2018 - September 2018)
Worked as an intern for a closed AA third person game,
including Level Design tasks such as puzzle creation. Helped on several mobile
projects as Game and Level Designer on the second part of the internship.
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is an open world online tactical and action-RPG video game developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft.
Context
Worked on Theo Parnell's main mission in the Ubisoft Annecy's team.
Role : Junior Level Designer
Creation of the mission with three members of the Level Design team
Creation of layout blockout (both macro for the quest needs, and micro for a shooter specific NPC encounters)
Scripting NPC behavior and Quest logic
Managed pacing and flow of the quest
Prototyping Level Design Ingredient
Worked with cross-disciplinary teams (Art, Animation, Engineering)
What I Learned ?
AAA workflow & communication with external studios
Shooter layout design.
Snowdrop Engine.
Date: March18-March2019
XDefiant
XDefiant is a F2P First Person Fast Paced FPS, developped by Ubisoft.
Context
Worked on multiplayers maps for XDefiant during two years.
Role : Level Designer.
Owner and co-owner of four maps (Zoo,Liberty,Shooting range and Daytona) from sketch, blocking, to polish.
Managed flow and pacing
Creation of layout blockout with Level Artists collaboration (setup of cover placement, line of sight, game mode specific balancing, verticality, crossfire)
Playtest and design iterations with users and creative direction feedback.
What I Learned ?
Work on all of the aspect of a multiplayer map for a FPS fan.
Learn and respect some design rules ( both three lanes traditionnal maps but also linear game modes)
Develop skills in blockout and architectural concept.
Date: March 2020
Star Wars : Outlaws
Star Wars Outlaws is an action-adventure game developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. The game will be set in the Star Wars universe, during the period between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
Context
Working on Star Wars : Outlaws since April 2022, owner of the first mission of the game.
Role : Level Designer and Technical Level Designer
Collaboration with Narrative and Quest Design team, managed the onboarding (where and how to teach the different core mechanics)
Owner of the first quest of the game.
Scripted stealth encounters and NPC behaviors
Creation and iteration of the first planet’s layout, iterated based on playtester and creative direction feedback
Technical Design: main contact for the DLC as support, debugging and collaborating with the main studio
Technical Design: Worked on Ambient Life System (Animations, NPC Routines)
Technical Design: Gave support for the Level Design team about Level and encounter scripting
Technical Design: Added Technical Documentation on Miro/Confluence.
What I Learned ?
Understand and learn advanced onboarding and tutorial skills.
Learn and develop further more my skills in visual scripting, debugging and technical design with 1 year as a Technical Level Designer.
Advanced Level Design skills such as Open World Design, Narrative storytelling through Environment.
Starting Date: April 2022.
Contact
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