Many years of experience as a solo-developer, working on my own prototypes, and as developer, designer, and writer in a team, working on several indie projects.Main areas of interest: narrative-driven games, procedural and emergent game systems, and novel gameplay mechanisms.Still working on my portfolio...
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Lead Unity DeveloperHoppa-Play Oct 2024 - PresentSmall team developing a hyper-casual mobile game. -
Unity DeveloperBeach Bum Jan 2022 - Feb 2024▪ Leading and coordinating development of engagement and retention enhancing features in live-service games. -
Game DeveloperGlobokids Games Jul 2016 - Jan 2020▪ Developing and maintaining virtual world features.▪ Developing mini-games.▪ UI development and integration. -
Game Developer / Designer / WriterSelf-Employed 2012 - 2016
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Game Designer / WriterAdventure Mob Sep 2011 - Feb 2012Designing and writing point-and-click adventure games:► Bolt Riley – A Reggae Adventure Game (released April 2016) ▪ Designed, wrote, edited and prototyped interactive story-lines, dialogs and puzzles. ▪ Supervised a small team of designers and writers. ► Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded (canceled) ▪ Researched, designed and implemented development tools during pre-production. -
Game TesterExent May 2009 - Dec 2010Petah Tikva Area, IsraelVisual and performance QA for Exent's Games-On-Demand services.• Responsibility for the quality of games being released to major international clients.• Sole responsibility of backtracking the entire game catalog for compatibility issues.• Researching and documenting technical problems.• Translating games from English to Hebrew.• Training new team members for quick integration into the work-cycle.Testing many casual titles, from famous best-selling brand name series to low-quality clones, afforded many research opportunities – analyzing what works and what doesn't (and why), and how some games easily “find the fun”. -
Game Designer / Writer / DeveloperCorbomite Games May 2007 - Mar 2009Tel Aviv Area, IsraelDesigning, writing and developing an episodic point-and-click adventure game: ► Pizza Morgana – Episode 1 (released August 2009) ▪ Developed and wrote interactive story-lines, dialogs and puzzles. ▪ Prototyped and programmed gameplay. ▪ Supervised a team of programmers, designers and writers. ▪ Designed, created and edited 2D and 3D art assets. ▪ Designed, created and edited sound effects, music loops and character voices. -
Marketing And Promotional OperationsCyhawk Ventures Ltd. Nov 2006 - Mar 2008Tel Aviv Area, IsraelVarious day-to-day tasks of mining, organizing and analyzing of content & promotions, coordinating department cooperation and knowledge sharing, small-scale QA of our products and 'Business Intelligence' of competing companies.In charge of many dedicated tasks which require great responsibility and attention to details. -
Customer SupportCyhawk Ventures Ltd. Mar 2005 - Nov 2006Tel Aviv Area, IsraelTechnical support and customer service at Cyhawk Ltd., for various online products and services. In addition, my work included several 'Business Intelligence', QA and Content Writing tasks, such as:• Collecting and documenting information concerning competing technologies • Running various tests of web applications • General documentation and bug documentation of web applications• Writing User's Manuals & Help Sections for web applications• Writing informative articles for marketing websites• Writing monthly Newsletters -
Account ManagerAdsmarket Mar 2006 - Nov 2006Tel Aviv Area, IsraelIn addition to my Customer Support position, I functioned as an Account Manager in the subsidiary company AdsMarket, which operates a performance based Affiliate Network. As an Account Manager I was in charge of:• Finding potential customers on the web • Creating business relationships with potential customers • Walking customers through the registration, setup and financial stages • Day to day technical support and marketing consulting for customers
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Freelance Technical Writer And TranslatorSelf-Employed Apr 2002 - Mar 2005Tel Aviv Area, IsraelTranslating documents and theses for students from out-of-country university branches and translating professional / technical documents for Shahar Assistance, Ltd.
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Customer Support RepresentativeAt&T May 2000 - Apr 2002Tel Aviv Area, IsraelSenior Technical Support person with AT&T Global Network Services, which offers international communication services.Beyond the regular task of producing solutions for Internet related software and hardware problems for private and business customers, I took upon myself the following responsibilities:• Working with out-of-country company sections as the Helpdesk representative in Israel.• An administrative position concerning financial services for private customer accounts and monetary refunds, which included using various credit card and invoice processing systems.
Oded Saar Skills
Oded Saar Education Details
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Creative Computing
Frequently Asked Questions about Oded Saar
What company does Oded Saar work for?
Oded Saar works for Hoppa-Play
What is Oded Saar's role at the current company?
Oded Saar's current role is Game Developer / Designer / Writer.
What schools did Oded Saar attend?
Oded Saar attended University Of London.
What skills is Oded Saar known for?
Oded Saar has skills like Game Design, Game Development, Narrative Design, Game Design Documents, Game Mechanics, Gameplay, Gameplay Programming, Game Scripting, Game Engines, Unity3d, C#, Java.
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