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Austin Gil Mendoza
Junior Game Designer specializing in systems and gameplay
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Game/system designer with hands-on Unreal Engine 5 Blueprint prototyping who has owned end-to-end survival and endless-runner mode systems. Strong in progression/economy and hero/stat system design, iterating quickly from playtests (including performance fixes via platform reuse/object pooling) and producing clear, implementation-ready GDDs with formulas and tuning tables.
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Key Strengths
- Owned game mode/system end-to-end (survival gameplay loop, rules and tuning)
- Rapid UE5 Blueprint prototyping to playtest (1–2 week loop)
- Performance-minded implementation (switched to pre-spawn/reuse to fix spawn/destroy issues)
- Progression and economy tuning based on playtests (upgrade pacing, resource simplification, clearer feedback)
- Designing long-term engagement loops (daily/weekly/milestone structure) with anti-exploit soft caps
- Complex stat/hero system balancing with difficulty progression and monetization constraints
- Clear, implementation-oriented design documentation (simple language, formulas, linked feature docs, tuning tables)
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