Kent Sutherland Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Cebu, Hong Kong

Clients include: Arcanys – Los Angeles, Cebu (Jan 2024 - Present)Driving the Creative and Game Design Direction on a Vampire Survivor-style game. Leading design development on: progression, core gameplay loop, narrative, player builds, and balance. Hanson Robotics – Los Angeles, Hong Kong (Feb 2018 - Jan 2019)Led a team of contributors in designing games and narrative systems for educational toy robots.Arkanys – Los Angeles, Cebu (Sept 2017 - Jan 2019)Designed card games to teach young kids math, currently being used by nonprofits in Cebu to encourage increased parental involvement in childhood learning. A study by Oxford University has proven these games to be highly successful in driving educational outcomes.Google – Los Angeles (Feb 2018) Designed and wrote content for Ready, a location-based AR game platform.

Hong Kong, Los Angeles

Indie Games - Develop and write text-driven comedy games with a team, including:Words Must Die - A 3D FPS western where you shoot passages of text. Called an “awesome experience” by Kotaku, chosen as one of the best free games of 2016 by Rock Paper Shotgun.You Got This, Brutadon - A voice-controlled game for Amazon’s Alexa where you are a kaiju’s hype man and best friend.Slaughtertrain - A Snowpiercer parody game with more than 1,000 jokes, most of them funny.Games JournalismWrite articles, features, and reviews digitally and in print for Rock Paper Shotgun, Kill Screen, Kotaku, Zam, and more, including:

Los Angeles, California, United States

Project: QUEST - Game Design LeadDrove Combat Design, Narrative Design, UX/UI Design, and early ideation on a location-based multiplayer combat and storytelling game in Unity. Designed enemies, built tools for branching stories, created interactive wireframes and led brainstorming and feedback implementation. Marvel: World of Heroes - Strike Team Lead/Systems DesignerLed a team to design, prototype, iterate, and execute the "Pokeball throw" equivalent. Owned design for features like hero texting, social systems and charity integration.Magic the Gathering: Spellslingers - Game Systems DesignerLed multidisciplinary team to design, paper prototype, write and build the New User Experience. Created design docs for game systems, including crafting, metagame progression, quests, events, and alternate game modes. Theme Park Experiences - Game Design LeadSpearheaded two AR games for play in a major theme park.Pokemon Go Augmented Reality & other R&D AR/VR Projects - Game DesignerExperimented with porting Pokemon Go to AR hardware, pitched features for existing games and prototyped ideas for new Niantic games.

Los Angeles

Develop and lead board game design workshops for young brain cancer survivors, kids with mental illness, senior citizens, children in hospital ICUs, and other groups in need.

Hong Kong

Collectible Card Game - Lead Game DesignerLed, managed, and coordinated a team of four game designers, overseeing all aspects of game design for two years of development on a mobile hero-driven CCG.Life is Crime - Localization Project ManagerLocalized Life is Crime for Asia: led international progress calls, developed game design features, and coordinated unconventional translation and content creation, resulting in a #1 Top Grossing App in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and JapanOther R&D Projects - Lead Game DesignerAuthored targeted design documents and illustrated treatments, facilitating clear communication with team members in four countries. Built rich game stories, environments, and characters.

Hong Kong

Bachelor Of The Arts, Creative Nonfiction, Digital Arts

Majored in Creative Writing: Nonfiction, Minored in Digital Arts.

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