Curriculum Vitae

Consultant

Self-Employed
2025-Present

Video game development support focused on direction and design for product strategy, gameplay, progression, narrative, level design, usability, live service, etc.

Game Director

Sharkmob
2019-2025

Involved in everything from project strategy to detailed feature design and balancing. Led Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodhunt after it transitioned from a premium title focused on melee combat to a free to play title focused on firearms. Was later assigned to Exoborne after it evolved from an open world survival/crafting title to an open world extraction shooter.

Narrative Director

Massive Entertainment
2016-2019

Involved in narrative and gameplay strategy and content ranging from campaign structure to specific storylines to mission and activity design on Tom Clancy’s The Division 2.

Cofounder

Blackpowder Games
2012-2016

Handled all creative direction, game design, writing, and most level design for Betrayer, a semi-open world horror-themed FPS as well as an unreleased VR project.

Principal Game Designer

Monolith Productions
1996-2012

Directed, designed, and handled gameplay and narrative implementation for numerous titles including No One Lives Forever, FEAR, Gotham City Impostors, and Shogo: Mobile Armor Division. Also helped ship titles developed by other teams at the studio, including Aliens vs. Predator 2, Condemned, and FEAR 2.

Major Titles

• Exoborne (release date TBD)

• Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodhunt (2022)

• Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 (2019)

• Betrayer (2014)

• Gotham City Impostors (2012)

• F.E.A.R. 2 (2009)

• F.E.A.R. Combat (2006)

• F.E.A.R. (2005)

• No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.’s Way (2002)

• Aliens vs. Predator 2 (2001)

• No One Lives Forever (2000)

• Shogo: Mobile Armor Division (1998)

• Blood (1997)

Skills

• Long history of creative direction, game direction, and narrative direction

• Leadership roles on a wide range of team sizes

• Product strategy and scoping

• Gameplay, progression, and live service design

• Gameplay implementation and balancing

• Extensive experience with visual scripting and proprietary scripting languages as well as some C# programming aptitude

• Narrative design and writing, including cutscenes, campaign structure, dialogue, mission design, and lore

• Linear and open world level design for single player and multiplayer titles

• Experience with Unreal 3/4/5, Unity, and various proprietary engines

• Proponent of UR and telemetry as a basis for decision validation

• Sound design and implementation and music composition

• Voice and motion capture direction

• Cutscene design, implementation and editing

• Professional writing and editing

Contact

craighubbard.main@gmail.com

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