Jane Ng – Studio Leadership // Game Developer

Gardens

In Sept 2023, I joined the leadership at Gardens as Operations Director and now run the day to day processes of our growing studio.

I joined the Half Life: Alyx team in the last months of production. The flagship VR game launched to critical acclaim in March 2020.

In 2018, we at Campo Santo created a trailer for In the Valley of the Gods, what we hoped would be our second title.

Here are a few of the talks I gave about our work on Firewatch.

A sample scene showing how I layered different elements to create the look in Firewatch.

Besides having to create a large area of the Wyoming wilderness, I also get to model pretty sweet 1980s props for the game.

I was the lead artist of The Cave, a game created by Ron Gilbert, made by our team at Double Fine Productions in SF.

A gallery and explanation of the modular rocks I made for The Cave.

I was responsible for lighting all but one of the levels in The Cave. The lighting system was essentially the same as Brutal Legend.

Here are some selected shots of the work I did for Stacking, a game by Double Fine Productions in 2011.

More environment art and lighting work on Stacking

Brutal Legend is Double Fine Production’s 2009 open world Metal epic. Besides environment work, I did a lot of the cutscene lighting as well.

A showcase of the introduction area of Brutal Legend, which I was assigned to work on.

Spore is a game full of procedural generation. Rigblocks are the modifiable blocks players can use to create their UGC in game.

This was my first professional assignment in the game industry, back in 2003 at EA. An interactive frontend menu for ROTK.