Derek Sunshine
Moby ID: 427042
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Derek Sunshine is a multi-disciplined creative and technical game director who’s career has spanned 13+ shipped titles across console, PC, mobile, and VR both premium and free to play. His early career experience started as a level designer on MMORPGs Stargate Worlds and WildStar before pushing into another avenue of his passions for game development, becoming an adjunct professor in Game Design and Art at Laguna College of Art + Design on nights and weekends.
In 2011 Derek co-founded the mobile games studio SUM Interactive in Silicon Valley which was ultimately closed in 2013. Derek then joined the folks at KIXEYE as a lead level designer, lead game designer, and design director. After the successful launch and first quarter of live-ops for War Commander: Rogue Assault he joined Amazon Game Studios as creative director.
Credited on 3 games
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| WildStar (2014, Windows) | Additional Level Design |
| Sorcery (2012, PlayStation 3) | Design |
| Stargate: Resistance (2010, Windows) | Other Contributors and Former Employees |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 2 games with Ronald Dutch Hill
- 2 games with John Worrall
- 2 games with Troy Baker
- 2 games with Jason Reynolds
- 2 games with Brian Berke
- 2 games with Jacob Simpson
- 2 games with Steven Williams
- 2 games with Joseph A. Unger
- 2 games with Todd Gorang
- 2 games with Rebecca Richards
Companies
- 2 games with Audiokinetic Inc.
- 2 games with Epic Games, Inc.
- 2 games with Valve Corporation
- 1 game with FireSky, LLC
- 1 game with Savant Productions, Inc.
- 1 game with Original Force, Ltd.
- 1 game with NCsoft Corporation
- 1 game with Liquid Development, LLC
- 1 game with Igloo Music
- 1 game with GameOps, Inc
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