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Senior Game Designer specializing in systems, progression, live ops, and AI
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Level designer/gameplay systems designer who shipped on Squid Game Unleashed, taking ownership of bot navigation and a dynamic bot-profile system to keep matches flowing and bots feeling human via telemetry-driven tuning (Tableau/heatmaps). Also built a lightweight minigame variant/rules framework to rapidly ship fresh live-service content with minimal engineering/art overhead, and has live-ops economy/event design experience from MyVegas Bingo.
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- Owned end-to-end bot navigation + dynamic bot profiling system to improve match pacing and reduce player wait time at finish
- Data-driven iteration using Tableau and heatmaps to identify failure points and tune level elements/bot behavior
- Designed scalable content via a minigame variant/rules system to increase freshness without heavy art/engineering load
- Balanced live-ops event accessibility with tiered difficulty to serve both new and veteran players
- Cross-team process improvement: established batched/weekly review cadence with SDK engineer to unblock live releases
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