Christopher Franklin Email & Phone Number

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IN

Redwood City, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Montréal, Québec, CA

Led the Game Design team working on Jurassic World: The Game.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Spearheaded Game Design and Content for Bingo Bash, GSN's flagship game. Bingo Bash is a top F2P casual casino multiplayer game, with over 1.5M players across all platforms.Bingo Bash Achievements:
• “Top 10 Grossing App” on iOS and Google Play store in 2012, 2013 & 2014
• $70M revenue in 2015 & $85M revenue in 2016.
• Patented game mechanicsResponsibilities as the functional head:
• IP and Content Creation
• Studio Leadership team at GSN India

• Designed 2 F2P games: Social Rummy (casual casino game) and Don (social game based on a Bollywood IP).
• Game Mechanics, Game Systems, Feedback Loops
• Narrative Design, Mission Design
• Design / Balance of features & economy
• Tournaments & Buddy System
• Pacing & progression

San Francisco, California, US

Designed social and casual-core games for iOS devices.

Vancouver, BC, CA

• My final assignment was an industry project, which was a vertical slice of a PC game titled "Ginkgo", created using UDK (Unreal Engine). This was executed by a five-member team on which I was the Project Manager and.
• Awarded Best Final Project at VFS - http://community.vfs.com/arcade/game/ginkgo/
• Nominated for Best Student Game at the Canadian Video Game Awards - https://vfs.edu/news/2011/05/26/ginkgo-shines-at-the-2011-canadian-videogame-awards - 2nd Annual - http://www.cvawards.ca/past-cvas/
• Semi-Finalist: "Indie Game Challenge 2011"
• Entrant: "Indie Game Festival 2011"

WFM provided design solutions to clients across verticals, on static and interactive media. Below are some clients WFM has serviced:Google, Citrix, The Leela, Trumpit Entertainment, Bhoruka Aluminium Ltd., Maitri (US Based NPO), V3 Engineers Pvt. Ltd. and Wild West Vacations & Travel

Dubai, DU, AE

• Other Achievements
• Assisted in setting up a spin-off division CSI (Content Syndicate Interactive)
• Implemented processes, work flow, project plans, proposals & rate cards for CSI

Herndon, Virginia, US

Set-up "Design Services", an end-to-end design solutions offering. This required creating processes, workflow, project plans, proposals & rate cards.Other Achievements: Pro bono work for UN World Food ProgrammeProjects titled "Golf For Hunger" and "Music for Hunger"Created brand identity and provided complete design solutions for UNWFP's fund raiser event..

IN

Other Achievements(February 2006, Mumbai)Represented RAVE magazine at a workshop / conference for Leading Publications & Journalists in India organised by the British Council.

Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Other AchievementsWorking with the IT Team called for a multifaceted role. Some of them are as follows:
• Planning and execution of several National Level Multiplayer Computer Game Tournaments
• Hosting and handling of several game servers
• Inventory management, hardware / software troubleshooting and hardware deployment
• Designed a prototype Music Portal

Co-founded “Indian Pro League” (IPL) India’s premiere computer game event management company. IPL executed Inter-City and National level Multiplayer Computer Game events for clients such as MicroSoft, Reliance Infocomm, Intel, AMD and various Video Game Cafès throughout India. These events were covered by the media and telecasted by Ten Sports across India.