Vetted Game Designers

Juan Lagisquet

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Senior Game Designer/Unity Developer specializing in gameplay and level design

11y exp

“Senior game designer with shipped experience on Outlanders, focused on systems/economy balance, player motivation loops, and clear cross-discipline implementation. Built rapid UE5 prototypes (48-hour cycle) and iterated based on feedback—especially leveraging audio to guide players in an atmospheric horror concept. Has led design decisions under mobile performance constraints, aligning engineering/art/direction to ship a sandbox mode with acceptable entity/map limits.”

“Game designer with shipped live-event hub/minigame experience (Club Blox) integrating economy/UGC, UI timing, and playtest-driven clarity improvements; successfully navigated a major client pivot by reusing assets and restructuring gameflow to ship on time. Also has level design experience on Plants vs. Zombies 3 (Lava Biome/hybrid mechanics) and rapidly prototypes accessible gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5 using Blueprints.”

Kaden Marler

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Junior Game/System Designer specializing in Unreal Engine gameplay systems and UI

3y exp

“Game designer/developer building systems-heavy gameplay in Unreal Engine 5 using Blueprints, including an RPG narrative/quest framework (dialogue + quest segmentation, HUD/logbook) and an in-progress FPS with ammo and perk-driven playstyles (e.g., tech hacking routes). Demonstrates strong playtest-driven iteration, including major narrative restructuring for clarity and cutting an inventory system after repeated negative feedback.”

RAFAEL CARVALHO DE SOUZA

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Mid-level Game Producer specializing in AA game development and cross-discipline coordination

4y exp

“Game Designer at Flux Games on AA titles including The Walking Dead: Destinies and Cobra Kai 2: Dojos Rising, with end-to-end ownership of combat/encounter modes. Led implementation of the team’s first shooting system and rapidly prototyped wave-based combat loops in Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints, iterating heavily from playtest feedback across responsiveness, balance, pacing, and clarity.”

Benoit Poyser

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Mid-Level Technical Game Designer & Unity/Unreal Gameplay Programmer

Remote, USA5y exp

“Technical game designer/Unity developer who has shipped across PC, consoles, web, and mobile, with a strong focus on performance optimization (culling/occlusion, event-driven patterns, sprite atlasing) including for Nintendo Switch constraints. Served as feature owner on Risk of Rain 2 DLC "Alloyed Collective" (characters, bosses, items, interactables, enemies) and acted as project lead during a critical transition, stepping in to rescue a playable character design to meet client requirements.”

“UK-based Unity developer who has shipped three Meta Quest VR simulation applications as the sole developer/lead at Atticus Digital (clients include PASMA, Welsh Water, and Saudi Aramco). Also built and shipped a fully solo 3D action-adventure platformer for Nintendo Switch (The Bee Hive, Nov 27, 2025), demonstrating end-to-end ownership across engineering and design under tight hardware constraints.”

“Game designer who owned and shipped an end-to-end tabletop RPG mode (UltraMex Revolution) featuring journey/battle phases and a chess-inspired card/dice combat system, iterating heavily from playtests by adding a written campaign and role-based abilities to improve pacing and tactics. Also shipped a web application feature for exploring Indigenous tribes in North America, tackling difficult data sourcing and measuring impact via application views.”

Dev Mane

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Mid-level Game Economy Designer specializing in F2P monetization and live ops

Mumbai, India3y exp

“Game economy/progression designer based in India with ~4 years experience across ~10 shipped titles, owning end-to-end F2P economies (currencies, sinks/sources, energy gating, ads, and live-ops). Built spreadsheet and Machinations-based models to tune pacing and prevent inflation/mode dominance, and reports improving Sniper War D1 retention from 15% to 24% through multi-cycle telemetry + playtest-driven rebalancing.”

“UE5 gameplay designer/scripter who shipped player-facing Blueprint systems, including an enum-driven ceremonial mask placement puzzle with sequencer-based hinting, proximity affordances, and robust validation/feedback. Demonstrates strong shipping mindset—balancing visual polish with runtime performance (timelines/material complexity/translucency) and building modular systems via Blueprint Interfaces and centralized tunables while collaborating closely with engineering on architecture and state flow.”