Hello! My name is Alexander and I am a game designer and somewhat of a game enthusiast in general.I worked in general IT market starting from 2011 (Server management, Data tables, SQL, cloud technologies and the like) with some freelancing sprinkled in-between employment (taking mostly engineer- and management-related jobs), and around 2018 I decided on a career change. I was always fascinated with games and made the obvious choice for a new path in life - game development, game design in particular. So here I am. I worked with VR technologies, making gamified attractions for VR clubs, had some experience with social farms on Facebook, VK and similar social media, managed a team or two as a product owner\lead couple of times (during my previous IT career and in game development as well) and had a rather fun career journey in general.I also ran and still running a fair share of tabletop roleplaying games for fun and sometimes as freelance work during the last 15-ish years (D&D, Pathfinder, Gumshoe, Worlds of Darkness, Numenera, etc) and wrote my own settings, scenarios and individual plots for players to follow through. I truly enjoy games, especially with a good narrative, and played tons of them in my life, which now became somewhat useful - working in game development and all that. Currently, I am residing in Yerevan, Armenia and am open to remote work.
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Game DesignerDragon Machines Mar 2022 - PresentYerevan, Yerevan, ArmeniaI worked on several projects in the company, including mid-core MMO battle royale and casual sports simulator\arcade.Working as a game designer I was performing the following duties: 1. Designing and documenting CORE and META mechanics of the project - Designing new features and balancing then - Calculating basic game economics - Creating GDD structure and GD documentation - Researching possible reference projects and deconstructing them2. Feature-owning - Supervising features: assigning tasks, monitoring progress and approving end result - Coordinating and communicating with the team - Creating a feature development plan3. Assisting project lead with management tasks - Working with project vision documents - Creating assigning and monitoring tasks and end results - Creating roadmaps and development plans for prototype builds4. Working with Unreal Engine - Adjusting the game balance - Working in tandem with programmers in creating prototype builds
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Product ManagerAnvio Vr Apr 2021 - Mar 2022Moscow, Moscow City, RussiaAs a product manager, I was fulfilling general management duties combining them with the game designer position in a 70\30 ratio. During my employment, we released and shipped a project - competitive multiplayer shooter for VR.I was: 1. Managing a team - Managing a small development team of 10 - Creating and assigning tasks and monitoring them - Balancing workload between employees 2. Creating instructions and regulations documentation - Creating and approving production instructions and regulations - Keeping relevant documents up-to-date - Optimising the working processes3. Project planning - Creating general project roadmaps with milestones and dates - Monitoring development progress - Adjusting plans depending on circumstances and possible changes in business values - Short, middle and long-term planning (ranging from 1-week sprints to year's quarter goals)4. Creating workflows and production pipelines and implementing them - Designing task workflows and implementing them through Jira - Creating general production pipelines with the addition of writing required documentation - Adjusting and optimizing other production processes -
Game DesignerAnvio Vr Jun 2020 - Mar 2022Moscow, Moscow City, RussiaDuring my employment I fulfilled the following duties: 1. Designing CORE gameplay - Designing basic gameplay mechanics and balancing them - Researching possible reference projects and their deconstruction2. General GDD creation - Creating and documenting game mechanics - Keeping GDD up-to-date - Writhing supporting documentation (feedback analysis, changelog and release notes, etc) - Creating narrative and setting documentation3. Research and analysis - Gathering business requirements for projects - Gathering relevant business metrics and analyzing them - Creating feedback questionnaires based on UX hypothesizes and their analysis - Proposing design changes to affect UX and other relevant metrics to the product4. Narrative Design - Writing a setting and narrative backdrop - Writing game plot and other scenariosI worked on several projects, including a multiplayer competitive shooter, a PvE shooter and a puzzle\quest adventure.
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Narrator\Game MasterФриланс Feb 2018 - Jun 2020I ran a lot of different tabletop roleplaying games as a Gamemaster for different groups over the years both following existing scenarios and writing my own.As mentioned before, I was writing my own scenarios for players to get through. I published a couple of scenarios for D&D 5e, GUMSHOE and Worlds of Darkness. I also heavily modified existing systems for my own setting (Savage Worlds, Gumshoe, Chaosium and GURPS).
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Game DesignerVirtuality Club Jan 2019 - Jan 2020Moscow City, RussiaWorked on a VR attraction quest in Egyptian style as a co-designer.
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Game DesignerManalot Games Feb 2018 - Mar 2018Moscow, Moscow City, RussiaWorked on a couple of projects for social media (social farms in particular).
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