Presentation
As you may have noticed my name is William FILIPE, I come from New Caledonia where I grew up and I moved to France in 2018 to start my studies in video games. I spent 4 years at the IIM school in Paris La Defense, during which I studied Game Design and I specialized more particularly in Level Design. I am currently in my 5th year, in a double degree between IIM and NAD UQAC. Indeed my school in France allowed us to come to Canada to spend this last year of study. Being used to travel to continue my studies and pursue my dream of working in video games, I did not hesitate to come. Since my last year of studies, I am studying at NAD UQAC following the DESS in design of narrative video games.
As I said before I specialized in Level Design because for me it's what will best impact what kind of experience the player will go through, and also that it allows me to best build these universes as well as the different paths that the players will take to discover them.
I'm passionate about fighting games and especially in competition like Mortal Kombat or For Honor, so I'm also trying to learn about fighting mechanics and Combat Design in general, it would be my ultimate goal to work on this kind of games.
Internship
During my 3rd year at IIM I was able to do an internship at "Cyanide" a french company that made for example: "Call of Cthulhu", "Styx", "Bloodbawl" or "Pro cycling manager".
With them I was Level Designer during a 6 months internship from February to July 2021. I worked on the games "Pro cycling manager 2021" and "Tour de France 2021". I was mainly in charge of the Level Building on different maps and environments in these games, I had to create the most realistic maps possible while respecting the constraints of the engine and the games.
Thanks to this internship I could really immerse myself in the corporate culture of video games, I especially had the opportunity to learn how to manage my deadlines, go directly to the main in my work, and be much more productive with better work methods.
Here you can see an example of construction in a city made during this internship
