Ian Holstead

@ianholstead.bsky.social

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Designer of Alter! Gameplay Programmer on Apex Legends at Respawn. Past: Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Comp Eng at uWaterloo. Views mine. They/them

Digital sign that indicates the room is for GDC speaker rehearsal
Screenshot of Jesse from the video game Control, walking in a hallway with odd patterns on the walls
Graph showing weekly hours worked from March 2020 until October 2020. Values are generally between 50 and 70
Game industry people: What was the first game you were credited in and how did it make you feel?
screenshot showing two characters in animation software
Graph showing press/second on the y axis and seconds on the x axis. the graph line goes up and down constantly until it hits a point labeled win
screenshot showing two characters in animation software
Screenshot of menu titled "hint's and weaknesses" in Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Many points are listed including "Rush and Bash against his charge"
Nessies floating around Wattson in Apex Legends
The classic 'let me in meme', with the fence labeled as playtest, and the person's face replaced with a picture of a nessie
Screen shot of the game Apex legends showing the april fools badge, which was a nessie in a jester hat
Comment in code that reads //sometimes the normal doesn't comeback normalized, which imo is a crime, but that's where we are.
Jira dashboard with much of the text hidden
Todo list with some parts highlighted
Flow charts and various drawings on a page
Alter tactical preview showing debug displays, which are a very large number of lines and shapes
Stylized art of the Apex Legends character Alter by the artist bokchoi
Photo of Ian standing next to a cosplayer of the Apex Legends character Alter.