Pj Rivas Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, United States

Game designer on the Combat team for World of Warcraft. Designing, implementing, and tuning spells, abilities, talents, and classes for World of Warcraft. Work includes talent tree overhauls for multiple specializations and multiple Hero Talent trees.

Renton, Washington, United States

Designed features and content for D&D’s digital tabletop game. Designed and iterated on the flow of combat, breaking down each step of the combat process and ensuring it was clear, engaging, and had good feedback / feel. Responsible for initial design, development, and iteration of the D&D Digital data schema and processing scripts that would translate.

Renton, Washington, United States

Designed, documented, and prototyped gameplay, interface, and combat features in Unity and Unreal Engine.Designed and developed the data schemas for use across every D&D action, item, entity, and spell.Delivered design solutions to paper D&D team on how to rework D&D rules to better fit digital play.Independently delivered weekly feature updates to the.

Renton, Washington, United States

Designed cards and content for upcoming Magic: the Gathering sets and Commander productsPitched, produced, and developed internal projects for potential release in future setsDesigned, iterated, and balanced cards for Wizards of the Coast's upcoming mobile card game Spellslingers

Redmond, Washington, United States

Organized, led, and directed a team of 4 (myself included) to convert Cubic Currency from a game jam prototype to a fully featured Steam release- released 8/31/2020.You can find details on Steam, linked below.

Redmond, Washington

Gave students feedback in and out of the classroom to improve the engagement potential and quality of their projects. Guided 20+ students each semester through both beginner and advanced System Design courses- notoriously difficult DigiPen courses.

Redmond, Washington

Directed a 15 person, inter-disciplinary team of students at DigiPen (4 designers, 5 artists, 3 programmers, and 1 audio) in the creation of the third-person action game: Overdraw.Sophomore year (2018-2019) game project was 2D sports brawler: Rush Park. Managed two other designers and directed the 11-person (3 designers, 5 programmers, 3 artists) team over.

Writer and content creator working closely with management to produce content on a regular schedule, as well as contributing additional content when other creators fell short. Requires engaging writing, flexible schedule, effective communication, and in-depth industry knowledge.

Montreal, Canada Area

Shipped Holobunnies: Pause Cafe: a mini-game compilation set in the Holobunnies cinematic universe.Released on Steam on March 22nd, 2017.

Austin, Texas

SketchLeague.com was a browser-based networked pictionary game focused on gaming-centric themes.Hosted over 1 million+ registered users with a highly active playerbase.Closed down February 15th, 2020.My responsibilities:Front-end designHeavy UX iteration over a short dev-cycleUsability testing and refiningSystem design for scoring, turns, and other game.

Austin, Texas

Premier ban and strategy website for League of Legends focusing on fluid design and easy to access information.