Christopher Magoun Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, US

- Developed 2 new game modes, 1 new LiveOps Event, and concepts for 3 new mechanics.- Drove product development of new features with the team from concept to implementation.- Modeled game economy for LiveOps events compared to nearest market competitors.- Organized playtests for regular game builds, collecting feedback and distributing it into tasks.

Culver City, CA, US

- Collaborates with Game Director and Art Director on development strategy, game vision, and plans to achieve both short-term and long-term goals for the project.- Defines process and clear vision for specific game features, and works with other departments for the development of those goals.- Creates detailed documentation for new game features, systems.

Culver City, California, US

- Worked with cross discipline leadership to manage the direction of major game features, and propose new features that could improve the gameplay.- Championed important game features, maintained a clear vision for the development and implementation of those features, and constantly provided feedback for further improvement.- Identified areas outside of.

Culver City, California, US

- Developed a crafting system as a meta system to further support the core puzzle gameplay loop.- Spearheaded design for an alternate currency shop within the game where the user can purchase power ups or crafting ingredients.- Revised the existing tutorial experience in the game to improve early game retention. - Designed new game modes, mechanics, and.

Culver City, California, US

Created fun and dynamic puzzle levels, and designed new blocker objects.

Costa Mesa, CA, US

Aliso Viejo, US

• Economy Systems Designer
• Designed, prototyped, and implemented highly interactive, randomized harvesting system to help create a unique and exciting user experience.
• Created and scripted timed harvesting bonus levels for harvesting system to incentive players to heavily use harvesting tradeskills.
• Prototyped, iterated existing design, and balanced WildStar's Coordinate Crafting system.
• Acted as liaison between the Economy team and 6 art teams, and implemented 2D and 3D art assets into the game.
• Created a prototyping test environment for the Economy team to efficiently check game balance and test new features.

Costa Mesa, CA, US

• Game Development and Graphic Design
• Graphic Design for game boards and game components.
• Work directly with game designers to ensure that the art matches their design.
• Playtesting games in development and proof-reading/editing game rules, player’s aids, marketing materials, etc.

San Diego, CA, US

• Live Combat Designer
• Rebalanced existing combat system to increase game difficulty.
• Designed combat scenarios for holiday events and future content.
• Created and maintained design documents for game content.Combat Designer
• Created design documentation for launch content, and maintained previously existing documents.
• Created 2D level maps for combat encounters and worked closely with art team for development of the 3D environment for combat encounters.

Irvine, CA, US

• Quality Assurance
• Playtestedevolving game builds looking for and documenting in game bugs.
• Evaluated game submissions for publication to see if they were projects we would want to localize.

Richfield, Minnesota, US

When I first started working at Best Buy we were a lab store, and one thing that was being tested at that time was a Best Buy training game developed by Cyberlore Studios. I eventually became in charge of the in store Alpha and Beta testing of the game.