Oleksandr Protasienia Email & Phone Number

Ukraine

Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

I have successfully led this nimble team to create our own niche (game design as external services) and deliver 60+ projects to 40+ clients over the span of 6+ years. Yet, this journey has come to an end.As the studio's lead game designer and prototypist I have personally contributed to a wild variety of games: a tabletop dungeon crawler, a mobile arcade shooter, and an immersive dream-like VR puzzle, to name a few. I have been:🔹 designing gameplay and systems;🔹 prototyping features (FlowCanvas, C#, Unity3D, paper prototypes);🔹 developing data structures;🔹 setting up state machines, event chains, algorithms, etc.I have always been learning quickly from the engineers I've worked with. During my work on these projects, I've gained experience with:🔸 OOP principles, implementations, and several coding patterns;🔸 Unity Engine systems (components, scriptable objects, input management, UI layout, animations, XR interactions);🔸 version control systems (git, via Fork client).

Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

While freelancing, I have contributed to several projects including Phantom Trigger, Tribal Pass, Long Reach — and another couple of interesting things that sadly never lived to see the light of release.My contributions included (non-exhaustively):🔹 requirements and idea legacy management;🔹 rapid prototyping (Unity3D or paper);🔹 game design: core to meta;🔹 gameplay fine-tuning for a better "gamefeel";🔹 narrative design, world building, game text writing;🔹 levels and complexity design;🔹 LOTS of build testing and reporting;These were fun times. 😊

Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

Worked as a hands-on designer/developer on two projects for the Windows Phone platform. I've used Unity Engine a lot here, working with the level scenes, managing game assets and programming in C#. Notable experience:🔸 designed, prototyped and iterated on a core mechanic for a brand-new mobile project;🔸 programmed several systems for said core mechanic;🔸 designed and co-developed a procedural level generation system (and a few others);🔸 transformed (and developed) the existing game design for a new business model;🔸 maintained the design documentation, experimenting for the best form of it.

Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

As a game designer, I have worked on several social gaming projects here, ultimately producing a crosswords game app for mobiles and even doing my own experimental prototype project.🕹️ On free-to-play social games I have:– designed the overall gameplay and project workflow, sometimes adapting the legacy mechanics for the social online platform or the teams' creative vision;– designed over a dozen mini-games differing in mechanics and setting, aimed at “min user input – max output” principle;– worked on user interface: created the wireframes, worked with the UI artists;– designed a statistical metrics framework for the analysis of performance, monetization and – foremost – players’ experience and game design upgrade opportunities;📱 "Scanword of the Day" appFull production and management cycle:- initial legacy idea development, detailed design, monetization and ads management;- team management, marketing, writing;- successful launch on iOS App Store;- post-launch progress: customer support, optimization, updates.🧩 "The Last Possible Match-3 Variation" prototype– game design, documentation maintenance, prototyping;– detailed production planning, management;

Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

This was a fun mobile arcade project called “Popping Rush” – arcade tapper for mobile devices. I have designed the core gameplay and prototyped it in Stencyl game engine. Then, with the development on the go, I've designed and documented everything gameplay-related: systems, obstacles, levels, balance, and tutorial. This was the first game that the clients' team tried to create, so I also served as their navigator through the whole game production and development cycle.

Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

3 projects complete + 2 finished conceptsActivities: – Drafting, development and support of concept and design documents, requirements development for programmers, artists and sound-designers;– Original game mechanics’ creation, as well as existing non-complete conceptions’ development and enhancement– Level design for games of various genres, their complexity balancing, game balance adjustment– User interface development with account of the device’s particularity

50+ posted vacancies, 6 corporate videos, corporate website structure and text content.Activities:– online promotion for companies’ vacancies, maintenance and evolvement of the companies’ positive employer image;– creation of all the textual content for corporate needs: vacancies’ promo, web-content, inner announcements, articles, etc.;– participation in the corporate video series creation, online video distribution– supervision for company’s collaboration with recruitment portals– various corporate events organization and execution– brief experience of project management (CRM-system implementation and corporate website redesign)– supervision for company’s participation in “Ukraine’s IT-companies rating 2010” held by Developers.Org.Ua– interviews, hiring and dismissal procedures– participation in corporate motivational system creation

Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

Activities: – editing and correction for Russian translation texts– rectification of stylistic, orthographical, grammar and punctuation errors– active usage of TRADOS, Multitran, ABBYY Lingvo

Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

Activities:– social projects organization and execution– local and national conferences organization– active participation in organization’s HR-activities