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, and development tools for implementation of the systems.- Regularly plays latest game builds providing feedback on if the implementation of features matches the design vision, and direction for further improvements.- Mentors a small team of designers, offering guidance on documentation, processes, and creating innovative gameplay experiences.

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 feature ownership for areas of improvement, and offered constructive feedback or alternate solutions.- Developed and revised the tutorial based on live feedback, and consumer insight testing resulting in a substantial increase to user retention.- Explored integration of new features based off of existing market trends, created design pitches, and ran consumer insight focus groups to gauge product viability.- Created an achievement based event system to reward players for playing the game well, and to further encourage those play behaviors.- Developed a social system within the game where users could manage their own friends list, view/like/comment on friend’s designs, and integrated social into existing game features.- Designed a customizable player profile within the game where the user could upload their own profile images, track their stats, and view their completed designs.

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 blockers for the game to better differentiate it from its predecessor, “Cookie Jam.”

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. • Scripted prototypes and finalized versions of several game systems including: harvesting, gardening, fishing, cooking, brewing, costume dyeing, and architecture.Creature Spawner• Established world population standards for zones and created behavior packages to help give life to an environment.

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.• Implemented NPC population and behaviors in combat encounters.• Designed and implemented abilities for combat jobs.

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.