Ethan Moore Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Led the design and development of multiple unannounced mobile games using Unity, from concept to prototype stage, ensuring quality, balance, and feasibility. Collaborated with artists, programmers, and producers of all seniorities to deliver engaging and innovative gameplay experiences. Managed four game designers on best practices, tools, and processes for game design. Presented game design pitches and updates to C Suite staff, senior management and stakeholders later incorporating feedback and suggestions.Was infrequently tasked with rapidly joining and rehabilitating design and product teams across core projects. Was responsible for diagnosing and resolving key issues such as team communication breakdowns, misalignment with genre expectations, and inefficiencies within product management. Through strategic interventions and hands-on leadership, I was able to realign teams, improve processes within a short time frame, setting the stage for long-term success.

San Francisco, California, Us

Designed, implemented and tuned thousands of levels within Wizard of Oz Magic Match and Harry Potter Puzzles and Spells. Analyzed user feedback and metrics, such as retention, engagement, and monetization, and adjusted game designs to optimize performance and user satisfaction. Created and adapted leading game features to work with our titles. Planned and taught level development for outsource teams and reviewed their content for quality and consistency. Provided guidance and feedback to junior game designers on best practices, tools, and processes for game design. Built out new mechanics, events, and features from concept to release using Google Sheets for modeling and balancing complex systems.

San Francisco, California, Us

Associate Game Designer on Harry Potter: Puzzles and Spells.Working in the Match-3 division.Work done in Unity / Google Suite + Microsoft Office / Sublime / Hansoft / Sourcetree / JIRAResponsible for- Crafting, tuning and implementing Match 3 puzzles;- Creating or adapting leading game features to work with an existing game;- Tuning and modeling complex systems using Excel;- Writing copying, and naming narrative elements of game; and- Analyzing real-time feedback and metrics, and adjusting game designs accordingly.

Provide advice and guidance to developers working on personal and portfolio projects. Gave level, system, and game design direction through active and engaged communication with the developer. Included Unreal and blueprint development support.

Cary, Nc, Us

Paragon- Fixed bugs in existing system and mechanics- Concepted, designed, and shipped mechanics for the card (item) system in Paragon.- Collaborated with design, art, code and production on decision making- Developed experience working on a live game