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Experience
Telescope Games - Lead Game Designer
Projects: The Last Whale Singer: Rise of the Leviathan | Additional
Unreleased Projects
May 2023 - PRESENT
- Ownership of Game Design development and direction of the project.
- Design iteration utilizing both internal and external testing.
- Prototyping mechanics through the different stages of development.
- Ownership of play-feel and the gameplay through “player first” approach.
- Work closely with other departments to realize Game Design vision.
- Work closely with production to prioritize systems and mechanics for outward facing content and applications.
- Work closely with management to write application documentation and pitch documents.
- Create transmedia projects from internal IP development with sister-Animation Studio.
Snowcastle Games - Game Designer
Projects: Earthlock | Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure | Additional
Unreleased Projects
August 2015 - April 2023
- Responsible for designing systems and mechanics for various projects.
- Prototyping and overseeing feature development with a cross-departmental team.
- Feature ownership and reporting responsibilities to teams and leadership.
- Marketing and Community efforts: Building a community prior to project launch.
- Project Management of both my own team and external team dealing with contract work.
- In charge of Localization efforts of our products with external partners.
- Product porting between platforms both internally and externally.
- In charge of publishing efforts across multiple platforms and regions.
KeepItSafe Norway AS - Technical Support Engineer
November 2014 - October 2016
- Account Support Engineer for some of the larger clients in the company’s repertoire.
- On-Call Engineer for disaster recovery solutions.
- Incentivized and started my own internal knowledge-sharing platform.
- Experience dealing with CRM (Salesforce) and support software (Zendesk).
EDUCATION
NITH (Norges Informasjonsteknologiske Høgskole) - BA Game Design & IT
08 2011 - 11 2014
Practical Bachelor focusing on entry-level skill acquisition for IT development with an added focus on Game Development and Design.
PASSION PROJECTS
Discord Server - Personal Project Community
06 2021 - PRESENT
I was missing a creative community to keep up with during the pandemic, so I started my own. The Discord server is a collection of Friends & Friends of Friends (~130+ people) gathering to show off and share anything new that they’re working on - incentivising a lot of skill sharing across multiple disciplines.
Gamers Get Together - Monthly Game Industry Networking Event
04 2017 - PRESENT
Starting off in the Game Development Industry is hard. Most established studios are closed off and the ability to “Meet & Greet” is mostly inaccessible unless you attend different conferences in and around Europe (Norway’s GameDev scene is fairly small).
Realized very early on that there was a need for a casual networking event - which has turned GGT into what it is today.
Two colleagues Snowcastle Games were introduced and vetted through GGT by myself.
SKILLS
Communication
Game Design
System Design
Prototyping
Production / Project Management
Localization
Documentation
Knowledge Sharing
KEY SOFTWARE
Unity
Unreal Engine
GSuite
Perforce
Asana
Jira
Confluence
Notion
Canva
LANGUAGES
English - Fluent
Norwegian - Native
Serbian - Passable
German - Learning
INTERESTS
Computer Games:
Enjoy playing and creating computer games.
Programming:
Currently trying to teach myself some programming to better prototyping and dev skills.
Functional Art:
Practical drawing skills to better accompany design and specs.
REFERENCES
Provided on request