Speakers
Cameron Williams, Senior Mission Designer II, Absurd Ventures
Cameron Williams is an early employee at Absurd Ventures a new studio from Rockstar Games co-founder, Dan Houser. There, he is Senior Mission Designer II leading Missions and design philosophy for their new open world, action-adventure game. He has worked extensively across AAA and indie and even shipped the long-anticipated TimeSplitters Rewind as project director only a few months ago. Before Absurd, he was Senior Game Designer at Infinity Ward on 4 different Call of Duty games, then Game Designer at Rockstar Games on Red Dead Online and Grand Theft Auto 6. He has worked to bring innovation across open world design, linear level design, mission design and co-op gameplay. Last year he spoke at GDC regarding open world design and this year he brings a fresh perspective on level design combined with focused principles around Mission and Quest Design.