Role: Lead Designer | Platform: PC | Engine: The Elder Scrolls Construction Set | Duration: 5 months | Team Size: 7 people
Description: Conservators Guild is a mod for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion that teaches preservation techniques for historical artifacts. It is designed for use in Museum Studies classes, and was funded by the National Park Service. The mod adds a new guild to Oblivion, the Conservators Guild, and two quest chains that teach artifact identification and storage techniques. It mixes educational content with traditional RPG gameplay (quests, dialogue, combat). An academic research paper discussing the project, entitled “Modding the Humanities: Experiments in Historic Narratives” was written by Professor Elizabeth Goins, the project’s lead researcher, and can be downloaded from the Journal of Interactive Humanities, here.
My Achievements:
- Designed quests that integrate educational material about conservation techniques into traditional RPG gameplay
- Scheduled & managed team of level designers & scripters
- Developed creative implementations for educational content using a limited scripting language
