Tyler Blair

Tyler Blair

Designer at Electronic Arts

Senior Designer / 16 yrs

Vancouver, Canada Area

Lead designer on FIFA Ultimate Team.
In Ultimate Team players build their dream football club comprised of players from all of the teams in FIFA. The method to build this club is through playing games and earning coins which can be spent on packs that help you build your club.

Focused on designing engaging game systems that retain players for the long term. Key contributions include: Game mode designs: Seasons, Draft mode, Economy Balance and tuning, Microtransaction,auction house and Interface usability.
Work History
  • Designer

    Electronic Arts

    April 2008 - Present

    FIFA 14 Ultimate Team
    FIFA 13 Ultimate Team
    FIFA 12 Ultimate Team
    FIFA 11 Ultimate Team
    2010 FIFA World Cup: South Africa
    FIFA 09 Ultimate Team

  • Lead Tester

    Electronic Arts

    April 2004 - April 2008

    Worked on numerous projects over 4 years in compliance, and online.

    Projects as Tester/Senior tester
    FIFA 05 - Gamecube
    NFS: Underground 2 - Gamecube
    FIFA Street - Gamecube
    World Cup - All platforms
    NBA Live 06 - 360
    FIFA 06 Road to fifa world cup - 360
    NHL 07 - 360
    FIFA 07 - 360
    Support teams - Xtest and Submission Audits

    Projects as a lead were
    NBA Street Homecourt - 360 / PS3
    FIFA 08 - 360 / PS3
    Euro 08 - 360 / PS3
    FIFA 09 --- Partial - 360/PS3

  • Tester

    Radical Entertainment

    February 2003 - October 2003

    Worked on the First Hulk game on the Nintendo GameCube and PS2 for both functionality and guidelines testing.