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Freelance/contractual assignments with various companies and projects from a QA and design/UX point of view.Credited projects include:Gladiators Online: Death Before Dishonor (Dorado Games)Bungee Mummy: King's Escape (Steampunk Wizards)

Given my deep understanding of Game Mechanics, GDD analysis and thirst for knowledge, I was offered to role into the Design department.Learning and mastering the tools used by Game Designers in the company, I proved myself from Level Design, to Gameplay logic implementation in minigames/interactions spanning from puzzles, to story telling to physics based games.I was assigned to one of the mini-games to be released with "The Wishingtooth: Storybook Adventure". My first credited project - "The Wishingtooth: Silver Wing Flyer": Link below.During the project, I was specifically in charge of creating and implementing gameplay logic and mechanics from ground up through FSMs, which included systems as:- Item Spawners- Obstacle generation- Pause menu- Timers- Point counters and point acquisition balancing- VFX creation- Proxy Animation creation- VFX implementation- Replay option- Tutorial implementation- BI actions implementationOther Design daily tasks including but not limited to:- Design and develop IP driven ideas.- Creating, updating and maintaining Game design Documents from initial prototype till implementation.- Creating working prototypes which aid to demonstrate an idea or game feature.- Level Design (from environment setting to mechanics implementation)- Implementation of in-game systems using logic based tools (while keeping in mind programming best practices)- Ownership of such created in-game systems (as for alterations and bug fixes).- Balancing of created in-game systems to assure expected behaviour is achieved.- Creating placeholder VFX - Implementation of VFX in game- Story writing and story telling including story arcs/plots/character personality evolution- Ensuring a deep understanding of tools used (Game Engine, editor tools, FSMs and logic based systems)- Working closely with assigned developers to ensure requested tools meet expectations.- FSM Template creation ensuring re-usability and following best practices.

Tasks including test template creation, QC/Analysis, including QMS processes of whole product.My capabilities and and efforts were noticed, and after three months I was offered a position directly in the QA department. I was put on the largest Scrum team, previously assigned to the Lead QA. Shortly after, I was given the responsibility for the project quality standards and delivery of 3 Scrum/Strike teams simultaneously, while ensuring that the required information was clearly made available to all responsible parties, including other QA, designers, and production.I was entrusted with a daily product assessment. Following a daily meeting with Leads/production, I would oversee the delivery of such objectives, removing any hurdles and blockers that might arise.I was directly assisting the Design team through a user experience perspective, including possible alterations needed through play-testing sessions and common user perceptions of such products.

Following my goals, I took the first opportunity that this industry offered me. My first role, Game Tester, provided me with invaluable experience and knowledge of how this industry actually operates.Project Lead in the creation and delivering of a working prototype through game development practices including art/design/software (3 month assignment). At this point in time my expectations were to become a recognized Game designer, my personal ambitions grew, new possibilities expanded my initially short-sighted views, I realised that I'm still not aware of my full potential.

Bachelor Of Communications

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