Destiny 2: Season of Arrivals (season 11)

Skills

Systems Design

Progressions

Rewards

Quests

Economy Design

Systems Designer – Bungie

Features

• Ritual Loop (rewards, progressions, vendor, quests, bounties)
• Exotic Quest: Ruinous Effigy
• Festival of the Lost (in-game event)
• Solstice of Heroes (in-game event)

Ritual Loop

Role: Systems (investment) Designer – Feature Support

A ritual loop is a season’s game loop. It unifies the season’s theme, activities, and rewards through a multi-layered set of systems and content. Ritual loops drive player engagement through a suite of quests, progressions, upgrades, reward stories, and more.

Responsibilities

• Designed and implemented all of the weekly, daily, and repeatable bounties
• Set up vendor reputation, progressions, and rewards
• Created challenges, which reward power and gear, for seasonal vendor and seasonal activities
• Worked on seasonal quest’s along with feature owner to help load-balance
• Assisted activity designers with setting up weekly rotation of bosses for mission “Interference”
• Built stat trackers for Prophecy (dungeon) and Season of Arrivals which players can display on their emblems to show off
• Built dialog filters and gating for narrative designers to use for Prophecy (dungeon)
• Prototyped and built first ever activity challenges for public events (activity type) for seasonal activity “Contact”
• Updated PVP map rotation for Crucible playlists

Solstice of Heroes

Role: Systems Designer – Feature Owner

Solstice of Heroes is Destiny’s summer solstice themed in-game event. Players don regal armor and complete objectives to upgrade it until it glows.

Responsibilities

• Designed new armor objectives ensuring that players who started playing Solstice together wouldn’t be offset from one another for playing different classes (a pain point from the prior year’s objectives)
• Revised economy including Solstice keys, global event package rewards, and objective completion rate
• Built new quests to better teach players the Solstice loop and to guide them from their first armor set to acquiring their final armor set and making it glow
• Updated Solstice packages and keys reward rate from the global game loop
• Improved vendor and activity challenges to better align with players’ weekly gameplay loop and engagement
• Audited Solstice bounties to improve on daily rotating elemental objectives
• Worked with another designer delegating tasks, reviewing each other’s work, and lifting each other up

Festival of the Lost

Role: Systems Designer – Feature Lead

Festival of the Lost is Destiny’s Halloween themed in-game event. Player put on masks, collect candy, and slay monsters in a haunted forest.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly align on new plan for Festival of the Lost to be in Season of Arrivals, instead of the following season, due to Beyond Light’s (expansion) delay
• Led other designers in plan of execution for activity design and systems design additions
• Developed narrative conceit for changes to this year’s Festival of the Lost involving Spider (morally gray NPC) asking the Guardian to find hidden caches inside the Haunted Forest for a cut of the loot
• Expanded on Festival of the Lost’s loop by adding new chests at the end of the event activity which required new keys to open (economy design)
• Leveraged mummy themed rewards as F2P reward set including ghost, sparrow, and ship
• Collaborated with Rewards Team to come up with plan to utilize previously shipped vanity items (masks, emblems, shaders, etc.) for an expanded reward pool
• Built onramp quest to teach players the Festival of the Lost loop and introduce them to the event’s activity, vendor, and reward structures
• Designed triumphs for players to chase and unlock new masks
• Created secret quest “Apocryphal Accomplice” to give players a flavor item “Ascendant Lens” as a capstone reward to be payed off in a future iteration of the event
• Audited bounties, vendor rewards, weapon drops, bright dust, weekly challenges, and more