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Anthony Hernandez
Mid-level Game Designer specializing in systems, balance, and live updates
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Game designer currently leading design on a Mario Party-like party game, owning mode design, economy, and meta-progression. Uses playtests and A/B tests to tune fairness-focused systems (e.g., dynamic power-ups accounting for player standing and turn order) and prototypes quickly in UE5 Blueprints. Previously shipped a mixed-reality version of Knockout League’s Knockout Alley mode for a Quest 3-aligned release.
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Key Strengths
- Owned end-to-end design of a 4-player strategy party-game mode (rules, economy, systems, win conditions)
- Data-informed iteration via playtests and A/B testing (e.g., dynamic power-up system tuned from feedback)
- Strong balancing instincts: adjusted power-up weights and accounted for turn-order advantage
- Rapid prototyping in UE5 Blueprints with short idea-to-playtest loop (implemented in a few days; playtested twice in 3 weeks)
- Experience designing concurrent event systems and mitigating unintended difficulty stacking
- Designed engagement/progression systems that reduce burnout (forgiving 7-day login streaks; flexible daily challenges)
- Shipped mixed-reality adaptation under hard constraints (scaled Knockout League mode to home spaces for Quest 3 timing)
Reference Highlights
- Owned complete modules end-to-end
- Efficient and high-quality output
- Highly creative
- Strong technical expertise
- Collaborative spirit
- Built engaging, popular activities (e.g., Animal Exercises)
- Iterates quickly and effectively from playtest feedback
- Smooth releases and strong positive reception
- Designs robust, smooth player experiences despite complex rules/states
- Well-designed difficulty ramp
- Mastery of internal tools; able to stand up playable modules quickly
- Generous in helping teammates with challenging implementations
- Improved team effectiveness through support and knowledge sharing
- Excellent at scaffolding learning objectives with increasing complexity
- Responsive to bugs and feedback
- Clear, concise prototypes; rarely required clarification
- Strong cross-disciplinary collaboration; eager and responsive to feedback
- Grew in confidence over time (from reserved junior to more confident contributor)
- Elegant, simple designs that minimize edge cases
- Proactive use of analytics tools to improve work
- Major impact on shipped features
- Created some of the highest quality content shipped
- Ownership of large curriculums and popular games
- Great attention to detail
- Incredibly thorough
- Highly polished output
- Most effective team member with proprietary tools
- Improved overall team quality via tool expertise and presentations
- Fantastic designer
- Strong systems thinking
- Best documentation on the team
- No ambiguity in specs/docs; smooth engineering collaboration
- Excellent cross-functional collaborator
- Intelligent and friendly
- Balances design goals with technical constraints
- Work was among the most played content (high engagement)
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