Zack Ganous

Primary scripter and mission-design driver — from stealth tuning to orchestrating every cinematic beat.

Coordinated the cinematic moments directly with art, cinematics, audio, FX, and narrative.

One of the designers, scripters, and level designers on this open-world campaign level in the Iraqi desert.

Built the trigger and scripting logic on the smart bundles system driving how each outpost handles AI and encounters.

Kept the level under AI counts and performing — suspending AI when the player leaves an outpost and resuming their prior states on return.

Designed the opening stealth sections of the mission.

Built the section leading down from the hill tunnels to the airfield, where the player steals the plane.

Owned scripting and level design for the Operation Chaos side mission end to end.

Mentored a junior designer through the mission's development.

Built the alternate defect ending, where the player turns on their former allies.

Scripted the dramatic bullet-camera eliminations that punctuate each betrayal.

MapTranslator — Design · C# · Regex: built a C#/regex tool that rewrote every broken map file during a mid-project engine migration.

Designed the majority of the western town added in Blackout's first content update.

Contributed to post-release content updates for the mode.

Designed large sections of the Blackout version of Alcatraz.

Handled level design across a majority of the mission — including the airfield and base sections.

Scripted the cinematic sequence where the player is shot out of the tower by the tank, and the combat leading into it.

Built large sections of the mission.

Did all the cinematic and FX scripting for the in-game sequence where the bridge is destroyed.

Designed the ship-assault mission end to end.

Worked on the Hero Ops story-mode content.

Scripted new AI types for the Zombies modes.

Built the Deathmarch mode — escort an APC while fighting a giant boss.

Designed the campaign mission Throttle