NHL 19
November 2018 - October 2019
Assistant Producer | Dev Support
Assistant Producer
Although the time I had on NHL 19 as an Assistant Producer was short, I was still able to plan content for the team and build up content for the existing features that were in the game like Draft Champions, HUT Challenges, HUT Champions and the new addition of HUT Objectives and Milestones.
HUT Legends
NHL had a big roster of 200+ Legends for NHL 19. This made a big change for the scope of players we had to work with for rewards of Legend players. We were able to make specific Legend teams for Draft Champions to play with, HUT Challenges had Legend teams you had to play against and we had more Legend players to use as rewards for players.
HUT Objectives and Milestones
Objectives and Milestones were a new feature for NHL 19 and featured different tasks for the player to do over a period of time. Objectives were usually time based and helped with retention to get users logging in daily or weekly to completely different sets of Objectives. Milestones were more long term objectives for users to complete over the whole NHL season. All Objectives and Milestones would reward the user with coins or packs or specific cards depending on what current events were running.
Dev Support
In November of 2018 I was hired back on the NHL Team as Dev Support to assist with testing features and modes in the game. With experience from working on the live team as an Assistant Producer, I brought a lot of knowledge to the team for helping with QA and also knowing the ins and outs of a lot of the modes that were available in Hockey Ultimate Team.
HUT Objectives and Milestones
Objectives and Milestones were a new feature for NHL 19 and featured different tasks for the player to do over a period of time. Objectives were usually time based and helped with retention to get users logging in daily or weekly to completely different sets of Objectives. Milestones were more long term objectives for users to complete over the whole NHL season. All Objectives and Milestones would reward the user with coins or packs or specific cards depending on what current events were running.
HUT Champions
Since HUT Champions was still a fairly new mode from NHL 18 and brought into NHL 19, a lot of testing still went into making sure the mode was functioning properly. Verifying qualifying worked properly, testing out getting rewards and having new seasons start. This mode was added to be the new competitive mode for NHL and to be used for eSport events so it needed a lot of attention to detail when it came to functionality and it working properly.