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Champions Online Dev Profile: Nellie Hughes, Content Designer

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Posted April 30th, 2008 by Cody Bye

Questions by the Cryptic Team
Answers by Nellie "Domesticon" Hughes, Content Designer, Cryptic Studios

Over the last few weeks, the PR folks behind Champions Online have been working hard to continually produce more content for their website and draw more people into the game. Another developer profile has been entered into the databanks, this time featuring the blue haired and bubbly Nellie "Domesticon" Hughes. With her love of Spongebob Squarepants and Killswitch Engage, how could anyone not be interested in her answers!

Q: What do you do on Champions Online?
A: I'm a content designer, which means I put the missions together and populate the zones.

Nellie Hughes, Content Designer
Q: What are you working on now?
A: Right now, I'm working on the framework for a set of neighborhood missions and working with the environment artist to create playspaces that fit the neighborhood's fiction and spawn groups.

Q: How long have you worked in gaming, and what did you do before working on Champions Online?
A: I've worked in the gaming industry for two-and-a-half years. I came to Cryptic after graduating from college, and I've been here ever since. My first game was City of Villains, and after that launched I worked on the expansions for it.

Q: What aspect of Champions Online are you most excited about?
A: I'm really into the gameplay. I'm a huge fan of being able to pick up and play a game and do well without having to read and learn a lot of crazy button combos, like many of the other games out there.

Q: What do you web surf to when you're avoiding work?
A: My favorite web comics at Nataliedee.com, Gametab and The Space.

Q: What are three things you can't live without?
A: Microwave popcorn, my computer and the Internet.

Q: Tell us a story!
A: One time in elementary school, I lip-synced to the Weird Al Yankovic song "Eat It." I got a standing ovation, and by far it was the proudest moment of my childhood.

Q: What is your guilty pleasure?
A: Watching old Tom Cruise movies from the '80s and '90s.

Q: What do you like to do in your free time?
A: Gaming, watching Spongebob and getting out of the house and enjoying the California weather as much as I can.

Q: What's on your iPod?
A: Anything from Killswitch Engage to Beethoven and some M.I.A. I'm all over the place with my taste in music.

Q: What advice do you have for someone who wants to break into designing games?
A: If you're really passionate about it, keep trying to do what you want. Make your own design docs or work on a mod so that you have something to show when you're trying to get your ideas across. 

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Champions Online Details

    Windows Xbox 360
  • Developer: Cryptic Studios
  • Genre: Super Hero
  • Status: In Development
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  • Release Date: Spring 2009
  • ESRB Rating: Not Rated

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