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Shaun Easterday

Principal Gameplay/Technical Designer

Professional Portfolio

Welcome to my portfolio. I am a principal designer at Relic Entertainment with 15 years of design experience, mostly in the areas of gameplay and technical design. I am currently the lead gameplay designer on an unannounced project.

I enjoy delving many other areas of design such as UI, progression, level design when the opportunity arises, but mix of technical and design challenges of gameplay and combat are the areas where I enjoy working most.

On Age of Empires 4, I was the lead on the civilizations team. On the civilizations team we tried to balance creating interesting gameplay while staying true to the historical era we were representing. This project was done in conjunction with the Microsoft studio Worlds Edge, so we worked diligently to keep them looped into the design process as well as taking advantage of their extensive experience.

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On Space Marine, I was a gameplay designer on the combat and multiplayer teams. Working on animation and combat systems for a class based multiplayer, drawing form the ranged and melee combat created for the campaign to establish classes around weapons that fulfilled the fantasy of hulking space marines and chaos marines battling.

On Dawn of War 3, I was a senior designer on the gameplay team with additional work on the UI and progression teams. Dawn of War 3 is part of the 40k universe created by Games Workshop, so we worked closely with representatives to ensure we stayed faithful to the lore. While we maintained the spirit of 40k, we worked on the gameplay team to bring very readable and impactful abilities to design. Especially in the Elites, which were special unique units with more powerful abilities.

On Company of Heroes 2, I led the gameplay design team. We tried to incorporate as much realism as possible to the designs of units and systems, grounding our designs with as much reference as possible while maintaining a fun and competitive game.

On Company of Heroes Online, I worked on creating progression systems and establishing the UI around those new systems. This project was a free to play version of Company of Heroes specifically for the Chinese market, though eventually released in other markets.

On Company of Heroes Tales of Valor, I worked on the campaign team scripting mission content. This was an expansion for Company of Heroes with three smaller campaigns introducing new mechanics.

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