
U.K. Designer Joins Guildhall At SMU Faculty To Teach Level Design
Jonathan Skinner has the rare combined experience of working as a level designer on many top titles along with serving as a systems engineer in the mainstream corporate world. His decade of work in the game development industry began with level editing using DEU for Doom in 1994. From there he progressed to using BSP and QuArK for Quake1 and then on to QERadiant for Quake2. In those early days, he also gained experience with UnrealEd for Unreal.
More recently in his level editing career Jonathan worked with Artemis Software as a lead level designer, working on titles such as Mythica: Gladiator Arena, a total conversion for Quake3Arena. For this project he successfully broke away from traditional level design restrictions and created realistic environments for the gladiator-style game. Using Radiant he created an environment that emulates an actual Roman coliseum. This coliseum level was later revised for use in the Machinima film, The Battle of Xerxes.
Learn more about Jonathan at
http://guildhall.smu.edu/about/Bios/SkinnerBio.htm