Jose C. Email & Phone Number

Generalist game designer, design instructor, and researcher. He has created video games (Tintin Reporter - Cigars of the Pharaoh), board games (Tibetana), escape rooms, gamification, etc.He graduated in Video Game Creation and Storytelling (+ T.P. as a Technical Artist) with the project: "FRAMEWORK for the design of playful devices for learning mathematics."Since 2019, he has worked at Pendulo Studios as a Community Manager and QA Tester. Over the following years, he participated in the development of the studio's titles: Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo and Tintin Reporter—Cigars of the Pharaoh, respectively, as a designer and game design director.He combines his design work with talks at conferences, workshops, and design consulting. Academically, he collaborates with the LENDIEM project in the publication of "Social interaction and communication mediated by emojis. Towards the design of an accessible and inclusive writing interface."In 2024, he publishes the board game Tibetana with GenXGames. He also teaches "Gameplay Fundamentals" at Voxel School and is a mentor in the third edition of the Vortex micro-incubator (ArsGames).PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IN:➡️ GAMIFICATION 🎴 Design of (video)games, gamification, and other playable elements. Data analysis, dynamic balancing, rapid prototyping, applied game theory.➡️ COMMUNICATION 📝 Text writing, style editing, grammar and spelling. Cohesion and clarity. Copywriting.➡️ TRAINING 🎓 Design and implementation of non-regulated teaching in areas like introduction to programming, Game Studies, and Gamification. Workshops, curriculum programming.➡️ TESTING/QA 🔎 Experience in TRC/Accessibility/Gameplay/Localization in video games.➡️ PROGRAMMING 💾 C# Unity (>6 years of experience), Unreal (blueprints), Lua, Python, GDScript.OTHER TOPICS:➡️ MATHEMATICS EDUCATION ➗ Secondary Education.➡️ LOCALIZATION [EN/ES] 📚 Game narrative, PR, Marketing.➡️ UX 🔮 Mind maps, Cognitive biases, behavioural psychology, UCD, HCI, IxD...♿ Design Justice - Accessibility and real inclusion.🔒 Privacy and critical digital citizenship.💡 Learning optimization.📈 Data-oriented design - Collection and processing of metrics.🕵🏾‍♀️ EXPERT in knowing who to ask or where to look.♡2023