Zafer Okur Email & Phone Number

İstanbul, İstanbul, Tr

İstanbul, Türkiye

Kadıköy, İstanbul, Türkiye

•Market Trend Analysis: Reviewing competing games to stay on top of the market trends in in-game marketing. •Game Design & Development: I come up with game ideas, prepare a detailed GDD, design original mechanics suitable for the game, and decide on role distribution by brainstorming with the team.•Creative Direction: Leading the creative vision of the game, ensuring a consistent aesthetic and narrative direction, and guiding the team to bring the vision to life across all game systems and features. •UI/UX Optimization: Ensuring a seamless player experience by collaborating with the design team to optimize user interfaces and improve overall game usability. •Data Analysis: Analyzing in-game data to identify player behavior trends and making data-driven design decisions to enhance gameplay, retention, and monetization. •Game Systems & Economy Balancing: Balancing game systems and game economy.•Mechanic & Feature Deconstruction: Deconstructing and arguing mechanics, features, and systems.•Player Behavior Analysis & Optimization: Analyzing player behavior data to optimize game mechanics, systems, and player experiences, ensuring maximum engagement and retention. Collaborated closely with design, development, and analytics teams to implement data-driven decisions.•Agile Collaboration & Team Communication : Collaboration and leadership with the team according to Agile methodology and Scrum principles. •Stakeholder Management: Managing communication and expectations with key stakeholders, including publishers, investors, and team members, to ensure the alignment of goals and timely delivery of the game. •Prototyping: Developing and iterating on game prototypes to test and refine core mechanics, ensuring that ideas are quickly validated before full-scale development.

•I illustrated children's books for many publishing houses.•I drew storyboards and advertisement posters for many advertising agencies.•I won the Comikon 2019 Istanbul Comics Competition with my cartoon story 'The Boy with the Red Sweater.' •I wrote and illustrated the story of my own comic book called '9 Nine'. My comic, '9 Nine,' was published online as a Webtoon, with a new chapter released weekly on the webtoon platform Okubi. •I wrote the scripts and illustrated over 30 comic stories for various comic book magazines, which were published. You can read some of my comic stories on my Behance profile. •I created the illustrations and directed the animation music videos for Turkish music bands. You can watch the music videos I created on the artists' own YouTube channels.•I shot my own short animation film called 1999, with the production support of the Ministry of Culture.•I created an escape room game called 'Numara 13'.•Numara 13 is franchised in five different cities. We successfully exited by selling the project to another game company.