Moritz Wagner Email & Phone Number

I have been working as a Designer, Co-Director and Lead in the Games Industry for over 14 years.I also teach Game Design in workshops at universities like the Filmakademie Baden Württemberg.My work includes critically acclaimed titles with a clear focus and high level of polish that have been often called the best in their genre. Notable titles are Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, Desperados III and Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew.As a Lead I have been heading the design team at Mimimi until the company's shutdown in 2023. The team consisted of Gamedesigners, Leveldesigners, Narrativedesigners/Writers and UI/UX Designers. I was part of actively designing and maintaining a culture with two main goals:1) Developing incredibly polished games.2) Maintaining high team happiness and satisfaction in equal parts.My responsibilities as a lead included:- Defining and maintaining tasks and planning for the whole team together with the production department.- Offering feedback and guidance to all team members adjusted by their individual needs- Championing the team's needs and wishes within the company.- Hiring new team membersDuring this time I also received professional leadership training from external contractors to grow my skillset as a fair and capable team lead.As Co-Director of all projects at Mimimi I oversaw production from a holistic perspective together with the Creative Director. This included:- Creating the early vision during pitches to the team and external partners. - Championing the vision within the team across all departments over multi-year production cycles until release. - Keeping vital information flowing and fostering inter-department communication to allow every team-member to work efficiently towards a common goal.As a Designer I worked in multiple different parts of our projects:- As a Game Designer I designed and documented almost every type of feature that existed in our games from early prototyping to shipping.- As a Level Designer I owned multiple levels in a project and developed them from the early greyboxing stage to shipping it in a polished state. I also handled mission scripting using visual scripting tools.- As a Narrative Designer I worked on creating our stories and combining them with our gameplay-core to create an experience that is unique to the medium of games.

Listed skills include Spieleentwicklung, Spieldesign, Handyspiele, Videospiele, and 3 others.

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