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Welcome to my website and portfolio

I’m Daniel Buckner—a game producer and designer passionate about storytelling, player experience, and team collaboration. As a Producer on the narrative mystery game Faelock and a lifelong gamer who thrives on strong worlds and systems, I bring both structure and creativity to every project I work on.

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Whether I’m managing milestones, coordinating with voice actors, or helping implement gameplay features in Unity, I’m all about supporting great teams and helping deliver memorable player experiences. Please be sure to review my skills at the bottom of this page.​

Project Showcase - Faelock

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Experience a world of magic and mystery in Faelock. Play as Bishop, a no nonsense detective assisted by his two witty and troublesome Fae companions to solve a mysterious murder that occurred in Port Fae-Lunaire. Was this murder a simple stabbing? Or does the murder give light to more sinister details about the world of Faelock as magic fights to compete with the industrial revolution and corporate secrets. 

Game Producer - Project Responsibilities​

  • ​Collaborating with Design team, Programming, Art, and Animation teams to deliver an immersive player experience.

  • Facilitating ad hoc and scheduled team meetings to discuss backlog, task prioritization, and to understand any issues and/or risks per milestone.

  • Use JIRA as a tool in combination with Linear.app Project Management Software to track feature development and task completion. 

  • Collaborating with drama students at Austin Community College to deliver voice lines for our characters in Faelock. 

  • Create playtesting documentation including qualitative and quantitative data regarding player choice, skills selection, and engagement

Production Skills​

  • JIRA

  • Scrum and Agile Methodologies

  • Kanban

  • Waterfall

  • Sprint Planning and Retrospectives

  • Creating and Facilitating Presentations such as Milestone Presentation, Monthly Business Reviews, and Quarterly Business Reviews.

  • Tracking Project and Individual Velocity

  • Setting Realistic Milestones and Managing those deadlines

  • Risk Identification and Management​

  • SWOT Analysis

  • Competitor Game Analysis

  • Manage Vendor/Client Relationships and Co-employment

Software & Additional Skills:

Design Skills

  • Paper Mapping

  • Ability to create Level Design Briefs, GDD, Confluence, and Wikis

  • C#

  • Unity 3D

  • ​Integrating Design work with Programming and Art from other teams.​​

  • Microsoft Office Suite

  • Google Collaborative Suite

  • ​Linear.app

  • ​Photoshop

  • 3D Substance Painter

  • Microsoft Teams

  • Sharepoint

  • Unity Version Control

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