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Game Design Experience

Game Hive, Tap Titans 2

Game: Idle RPG mobile game with card collection and monthly events + updates

​Role: Game Designer / Mathematician 

  • Envisioned, designed, and balanced new features and events in monthly update cycle

  • Delivered 50+ developer-facing design documents, streamlining implementation of new features

  • Developed 20+ bespoke, complex mathematical programs to model systems and progression

  • Audited and rebalanced 10+ existing systems to account for metagame changes

  • Leveraged playtesting feedback and data to tune all systems’ balance and design

Tools: Unity, R, Google Sheets, Jira, Confluence​​

2023-Present

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Some Specific Tasks:

  • Balanced and set up monthly live events

    • Designed 100+ levels for dungeon exploration event​

    • Designed recipe tree for crafting event

    • Balanced groups of enemies and bosses for raid event

  • Balanced and created systems for seasonal endgame content (Transcendence)​

    • Modelled 10+ systems' progression to balance overall player power, easily compare variations, and balance power creep

    • Designed and implemented new systems, improving progression and game feel

    • Implemented and balanced resources within the systems, working closely with playtesters and other designers​

  • Audited and rebalanced core game system (Crafting Power)

    • Studied and reported on the system's intricacies, how it impacted the game, and how players felt about it

    • Identified gaps and issues with current balance and play experience 

    • Envisioned, assessed, and presented 5 possible solutions 

    • Implemented solution, rebalancing entire system and all linked systems

  • Pitched and documented new features

    • Pitched ideas for new features and systems at weekly design team meetings​

    • Led discussions on ideas and potential implementations

    • Completed developer-facing design documents of new features

    • Tuned ideas by working closely with playtesters to understand player desires

Professional Tabletop RPG Game Designer & Game Master

  • Developed, arranged, and facilitated engaging weekly game sessions, resulting in 100% retention

  • Devised and balanced hundreds of combat, puzzle, and skill-based gameplay encounters

  • Built 50+ level maps for dungeons, cities, and indoor spaces

  • Presented continuous story in open world sandbox

  • Prioritized player choice and ensured decisions led to lasting story impacts

  • Walked players through numerous systems’ mechanics in custom-made tutorial sessions

  • An example one shot written to introduce players to a PBtA game can be found here

2018-2023

GitHub GameOff Game Jam, Scale the Fish

Game: Turn-based strategy deck builder

​Role: Lead Designer, System Designer

  • Envisioned and balanced 50+ card effects, their interactions, and playing costs

  • Balanced game progression to create exciting card scaling as turns advanced

  • Developed algorithm to offer new cards that facilitates game progression

Tools​: Unity, Microsoft Excel

Time: One month

Results: Ranked 19th (top 3%) out of 634 entries

2023

GitHub GameOff Game Jam, Bet the Farm

Game: Management turn-based card game

​Role: Lead Designer, System Designer

  • Balanced game progression, 40+ game cards, and quest system

  • Designed, modelled, and tuned in-game economy

  • Developed card drawing algorithm to create more uniform card-type distribution

Tools​: Unity, Microsoft Excel

Time: One month

Results: Ranked 21st (top 4%) out of 566 game entries

2022

Brackeys Game Jam, Project: Xenomouse 

Game: Cross between pet simulator, roguelite, and maze game

​Role: Gameplay Designer, System Designer, Level Designer, Writer

  • Balanced game progression to create an 8-10 minute experience

  • Created maze level including enemy patrol routes and item locations

Tools​: Unity, Microsoft Excel

Time: One week

Results:​ Ranked 38th (top 6%) of 734 game entries

2023

inkJam, Build-A-Monster 

Game: Text-based interactive fiction

​Role: Narrative Designer, Writer, Programmer

  • Implemented time system to progress the player through the game 

  • Wrote all parts of the game

  • Created treeless system for altering narrative course based on player decisions

Tools​: ink, draw.io

Time: Three days

2022

Education

I recently graduated from a double degree program comprised of a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.

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My studies provided a thorough math background, including familiarity with

AI  •  optimization  •  graph theory  •  statistics  •  linear algebra  •  data structures  •  algorithms   

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I also gained many practical business skills, including

product design & innovation  •  analytics  •  documentation  •  presentation  •  business sustainability

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As part of the double degree program, I also completed five full-time internships, which provided hands-on experience in product development, analytics, and innovation.

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