My role as a Creative Lead on the Destiny 2 team probably doesn’t give you a clear idea of what I do. So here goes the thread! Creative Lead is a “Vision” role responsible for delivering a release that aligns with: Player expectations Game and business goals Team’s ambitions - ThreadSky

tomfromtheweb.bsky.social • 107 days ago

My role as a Creative Lead on the Destiny 2 team probably doesn’t give you a clear idea of what I do. So here goes the thread!

Creative Lead is a “Vision” role responsible for delivering a release that aligns with:

Player expectations
Game and business goals
Team’s ambitions

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moosetrails.bsky.social•107 days ago

I wish you luck and hope you have the spine to refuse ridiculous micro transactions and poorly worded season passes as we've received in the past. Destiny was a great game to me once upon a time, now it's a shell of what I remember. Hopefully the future holds the light for our guardians yet.

kellofkels.bsky.social•101 days ago

Hey thanks for the insight, that was super interesting to read! Sounds similar to what a Product Owner does?

itsbobbysocks.bsky.social•104 days ago

And you do a damn good job of it. 🫡

decisivepanic.bsky.social•106 days ago

What's the ratio you think of these vision roles compared to other roles at Bungie?

lolsalot123.bsky.social•106 days ago

Hey, no clue if this will go anywhere, but I play destiny 2 a little with friends and was wondering if you could include a healing stat to the scoreboard summary screen.

I like to go full heal with solar warlock and the lumina and always get teased for my horrendous damage values on the scoreboard

lolsalot123.bsky.social•106 days ago

Sorry if this is the wrong time and place to ask 🙏

usmantariq.bsky.social•107 days ago

Never knew I would see a Destiny team member in the wild. What an interesting day. Thank you for delivering a great game

tomfromtheweb.bsky.social•107 days ago

The role changes drastically depending on where we are in production.

An individual release goes through pitch, preproduction, production, postproduction, and live support.

tomfromtheweb.bsky.social•107 days ago

For the Pitch, I take the game and business goals from leads, then collaborate with our leadership team to create a pitch deck that presents a release that meets those goals with a compelling player fantasy for our audience, like “Splicer”.

tomfromtheweb.bsky.social•107 days ago

For Preproduction, I assist the team as we assign, brainstorm, sketch, and spec out all features so we can create a full list of asks for partners. We align on these with them and determine our shared plans to enter Production.

tomfromtheweb.bsky.social•107 days ago

In Production we get things stood up and start the classic iterative loop.

Design >> Playtest >> Feedback

I focus on playing and giving feedback as we work towards big milestone playtests where we evaluate progress and make pivots as needed until we are content complete.

nzbrowncoat.bsky.social•47 days ago

Great run-down, you are at the centre of a tough job at the moment, no doubt. Keep grinding.

Feedback- As an O.G 10yr player who stepped away following felling the Witness, my feedback is...D2 needs a massive change, it can't rely on its awesome gunplay anymore, the game needs NEW gameplay loops

tomfromtheweb.bsky.social•107 days ago

I’m already pitching what’s next while the team is in Postproduction. Here we shift to polish and bug fixing as we focus on closing the product out to quality and we ready the release for launch and…

tomfromtheweb.bsky.social•107 days ago

Live Support! The game is live, y’all get to play, it’s exciting to get it in your hands, but we are already hard at work on the next release as the cycle continues.

As you can see Games as a Service are a marathon, not a sprint, and I’m happy to serve y’all in this role

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