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Senior Technical / Gameplay Designer
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Nick Miller

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Smoke & Steel is a small-scale project being developed by myself and a few remaining members of the Mirage Knights dev team, reformed as Bearded Reptile Productions. Smoke & Steel is a small-scale survivor-style game where the player pilots various tanks against swarms of dragons, inspired in part by the movie Reign of Fire. Tanks can be outfitted with various weapons, artillery, gadgets, and crewmembers, more of all of which are unlocked over the course of multiple runs. Our dev team consists of four people: a designer (me), an artist, an engineer, and a hybrid designer/engineer/producer who keeps us all in line. The goal is to keep the team size limited to roughly this size throughout development, hopefully adding no more than one or two more members if needed and contracting for anything extra needed beyond that. This way we hope to keep our funding needs much smaller or even non-existent, allowing us to launch without publishing support if need be, and build from early-access.

My responsibilities as designer include 99% of our design and blueprint scripting for systems and mechanics (including all our inventory systems, all our weapons and crew, all our progression, and so on), as well our concise little GDD. Our artist Liam is once again (as with mirage knights) providing both all the art and acting as our level designer, with us collaborating on certain high-level aspects of level flow. Our triple-threat hybrid is focused on mid-match objectives and quests, as well as maintaining our jira, confluence, miro boards, etc, and our engineer is solving all the hard problems the rest of us are too dumb to figure out (and is taking point on enemy and wave design).