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Nikola_Kuresevic_CV.pdf
Experience
Telescope Games - Lead Game Designer
Projects: The Last Whale Singer: Rise of the Leviathan | Additional
Unreleased Projects
May 2023 - PRESENT
- Own the Game Design development and direction of the project.
- Iterate on designs through both internal and external testing.
- Prototype various mechanics through the different stages of development.
- Ownership of play-feel and the players experience of the gameplay.
- 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.
Snowcastle Games - Game Designer
Projects: Earthlock | Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure | Additional
Unreleased Projects
August 2015 - April 2023
Varied responsibilities depending on the projects state of development:
- Responsible for designing multiple systems and mechanics for various projects.
- Prototyping and overseeing feature development with a cross-departmental team.
- 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 in my previous job 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