Matthew Medina

Matthew Medina

Position

Senior Content Designer

Department

Design

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Matthew Medina is a content designer at ArenaNet. He has been at ArenaNet since 2003, and prior to that he worked at Electronic Arts Seattle (twice) and Cavedog. Matthew started his career as a QA Tester, lingered in the art department for 17 years, and is now wading out into the murky depths of game design. In his spare time, he enjoys parenting, debating apologetics, studying cosmology and evolutionary biology and writing science fiction. He is an avowed barefooter.

— ArenaNet blog

Matthew Medina was a Story Design Team Lead for Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire. He left ArenaNet in 2019, but returned to ArenaNet in March 2020 as a Senior Content Designer.

Jobs

ArenaNet

• Senior Content Designer
  • March 2020 – Present

• Story Design Team Lead
  • October 2009 – February 2019

• Senior 3D Artist
  • September 2007 – October 2009

• Art Process Manager
  • September 2005 – September 2007

• Senior 3D Artist
  • Febuary 2003 – September 2005

Work

• He designed early renditions of continental Tyria.
• He designed the initial version of Lion's Arch and he filled it with a lot of NPCs. In the city, he co-designed the ghost pirate jumping puzzle with Josh Foreman.
• He designed the translatable alphabets for Ascalonian, New Krytan, Asuran script, and Orrian syllabary.
• Dead quaggan puzzle.
• He created the "Flying Dolyak" race of the first Festival of the Four Winds.
• Worked on several story instances, including Arcana Obscura, Prisoners of the Dragon, The Sacrifice, and A Shattered Nation (the last story instance he worked on).

Trivia

• Has personally placed numerous NPCs in various cities and areas that are barefoot.

External Links

• Twitter: @barefootmatthew
• Website: Matthew Medina's Design Portfolio