Thomas Gale

Background

About Thomas Gale

I run Nightingale Games LLC as a board game publisher. I love to create art and design games especially those with a fantasy or sci-fi theme. I've been in the game industry as Lead Artist, Creative Director or Designer since 1996. I've worked on 20+ major titles and 30+ minor projects. Art Direction/Creative Lead Highlights: • earning the respect of fellow co-workers • communicating well with all branches of development (design, art, programming, management, marketing, external clients, audio, outsource, interns) • offering critical feedback in a productive manner • efficient scheduling for internal and outsource teams • solving technical problems with proprietary applications • establishing development pipelines • rapid prototyping using new technologies • well versed in many varied project management and debug tools • contributes great ideas to all elements of development (technical, game-play, story, art) Artist Highlights • a "Generalist" • excellent sense of composition, lighting and color • extremely fast iteration on concepts (2D or 3D) • accurate perspective and figure drawing skills • expert in 3DSMax (20+ yrs) • expert in Photoshop (20+ yrs) • advanced knowledge in other Adobe tools (Flash, AE, Premiere, DW, etc) • well versed in 3D Engines (Unity 4 and 5) Unreal • major UI experience (mobile esp.) • good sense of character animation • experienced FX artist Designer Highlights: • skilled in writing branching narratives and natural dialog scripts (for recorded voice) • creates unique characters, places and events that combine well with game-play • developed pipeline and files structures for design • designed original mini-games • versed in both hardcore and casual/mobile areas of development • balanced level designs and challenges • extensive development experience in genres (adventure, casual arcade, hardcore arcade, RPG, action shooters, abstract, sims, MMO, time-management, board games, CCGs, sandbox, episodic, RTS etc.)