Call of Duty®: Black Ops 7 (2025)

Game Designer (Multiplayer) • Treyarch

Overview

• Game Modes (incl. "Prop Hunt"), Player Spawning Algorithm
• Gameplay Scripting & Programming
• Interactive Environments & Systems
• Design and technical owner of multiple modes and cross-studio systems

I shipped Black Ops 7 only one year after the previous entry, Black Ops 6 (2024), while still developing post-launch multiplayer game modes, level mechanics, and gameplay systems for Black Ops 6. This was an exercise in speed and precision. If BO6 was about laying foundations, learning, and experimenting, BO7 was about executing at full throttle with no room for error.

Game Modes

• Prop Hunt (S1) — Game Design Owner
• Holiday Havoc (S1) — Game Design Owner
• The Ghouls (S1.5) — Design
• S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Mayhem (S1.5) — Design
• Safeguard (S2) — Design
• Infected (S2.5) — Design
• Gauntlet (S2.5) — Design
• …and more to be announced!

Game Mode and Player Spawning Setups

For each of the following maps, I set up all 12+ game modes, positioned hundreds of spawn points, and dialed in player spawning systems.

Exposure (Launch)

Imprint (Launch)

Odysseus (S1)

Torment (S2)

Interactive Environments

• Programming for moving bullet train map hazard on Express (another train!)
  • Designed and implemented algorithm for interpolating 3D position and rotation of each train car along authored path
  • Worked closely with audio designers to script realistic audio for the entire train sequence
• Programming for moving inclinator on Imprint
  • Created a method for attaching objectives, such as Hardpoints or Search & Destroy bombsites, to moving platforms for the Inclinator feature on this map.
• Owner of internal system for drag-and-drop dynamic level elements that can be chained

Player Spawning

• Part of core cross-studio gameplay domain responsible for improving, maintaining, and implementing our player spawning systems.
• Worked with senior game designer to achieve signifact improvements to player spawning.