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Scott Compton
Staff/Lead Game Systems Designer specializing in AAA live games and emergent narrative
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Progression/economy designer and lead live designer with shipped AAA and live-service experience across Shadow of Mordor/War, Guardians of Middle-earth, Days Gone, and Star Trek Online. Known for building quantitative tuning models (200+ stat points calculator), leading large QA-driven balance loops, and using telemetry to uncover and fix major friction points (e.g., off-screen archer deaths) while maintaining engaging, fair progression.
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Key Strengths
- Owned end-to-end progression tuning for Shadow of Mordor’s Nemesis System (Orc hierarchy power gates, churn, strengths/weaknesses)
- Designed and introduced a new gating resource (“Power”) to prevent overpowered early builds and improve ability progression pacing
- Built a 200+ property points-calculator spreadsheet model to balance skills/powers in a console MOBA
- Led weekly multi-cycle balance process with QA; managed 15+ QA members over ~9 months of live tuning
- Telemetry-driven problem solving: identified 70% of player deaths caused by off-screen archer shots and shipped HUD pre-tell solution
- Strong systems thinking connecting combat tuning, progression pacing, and player psychology/retention loops
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