Jan 2015 – Oct 2025 · 10 yrs 9 mos · Austin, TX

• Over the course of 10 years, acted as a design leader for multiple mobile titles across multiple genres. Worked across all aspect of the projects, including pitching projects, making hires, mentoring young designers, building prototype teams, instituting good design and production practices, and pushing hard for teams to get the project to ship at a very high quality bar.

May 2006 – Oct 2014 · 8 yrs 5 mos · Austin, Texas

• Damion Schubert worked on "Star Wars: the Old Republic" for 8 years, serving multiple roles on the project, working his way up from Lead Combat Designer to Principle Lead Systems Designer to eventually Lead Designer for the project shortly after SWTOR went live. His most notable achievement was directing the design of SWTOR through the conversion from a premium product to being a Free-to-Play product, a highly successful conversion effort that doubled the revenue for the project without losing subscribers, and resulted in SWTOR being one of the top 10 F2P games in the world. His other contributions include:
• Initial conception of the 8 player classes from a systems/combat point of view.
• Initial conception and design of key new F2P, monetization features, including random pack design, dye mods, minipets, player vehicles and animal mounts, and player housing.
• Functional UI/UX design throughout the game, including design of a fully player customizable GUI, contextual GUI, tutorial design, map and galactic map design, and design of the registration and login flow.
• Design and oversight of the player-driven virtual economy, including the itemization roadmap, the crew skills/crafting system, and the galactic trade network (auction house).
• Design of most of the social systems in the game, including grouping, guilds, prelaunch guild affiliation, and Facebook/Social Network Integration.
• Design of the Legacy System, a gameplay mechanic designed to reward multiple playthroughs with alternate characters, thereby increasing game lifespan.
• Design of the player rewards system and advancement curve.
• Primary design point of contact for gameplay engineers, localization, telemetry and metrics, & customer service.
• Primary driver of design documentation and presentations for the project.
• Damion is currently working on a new, unannounced project for Bioware Austin

Jan 2003 – May 2006 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Served as lead designer and producer on the Shadowbane project, which went live in March 2003. Also served as lead designer on unannounced, and eventually cancelled, massively multiplayer game based on an established Ubisoft license.

May 2001 – Dec 2002 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Took design leadership responsibilities of a small startup, focusing on Massively Multiplayer titles. Managed and initiated business contacts, and designed our core titles, including the MMP social game "Hollyworld". Provided contract design services for "The Sims Online" and "Highlander Online".

Mar 1998 – Mar 2001 · 3 yrs

• Held role of Lead Designer on the UO2 project from the project's inception, which included managing a team of up to 7 designers, managing the core vision of the game for 50+ developers, and helping to manage the community expectations of the game, which was a sequel to a highly successful pioneer of the online space.

May 1996 – Feb 1998 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Designer on the influential early entry into the MMP space "Meridian 59", the first Internet 3D MMP, which was developed by Archetype before eventually being purchased by 3DO. Was promoted to Lead Design position shortly before the product went live. Served as lead for two expansion packs to the project. Also was a designer on "Might and Magic Online" (cancelled).