Avowed: First-Person RPG Level & Quest Design

Avowed released on February 18th, 2025 on Xbox Game Pass, Steam, and Battle.net.

In April of 2022 I joined the Avowed team at Obsidian Entertainment as an Area Designer. In June of 2022 I was promoted to the role of Region Director. In my Area Designer role, I contributed directly to area layouts, combat feel, and quest pacing. In my Region Director role, I oversaw that same work on a larger scale, working with my interdisciplinary team to bring to life the local stories and gameplay goals of specific regions of the game world.


Below are some screenshots from various Avowed trailers that include some of the content that the team I lead developed. I will update this page with further process-related details when I have time in the future.


For Gamescom 2024, I had the unique honor to help run Avowed‘s very first hands-on press demo, where journalists and creators were able to play an hour of content in the “Dawntreader” quest and dungeon—content for which I served as Region Director!

I also had the privilege to sit with our Art Director for an interview with Digital Trends, talking about Avowed and the “Dawntreader” hands-on demo:


Over the final months of the project and post-release I’ve had the pleasure to participate in even more interviews: