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CLEVELAND DEAR

Senior Game Designer specializing in systems, progression, live ops, and AI

Austin, TXSenior Game Designer13 years experienceSeniorVideo GamesMobile GamesMedia & Entertainment
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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.

Experience

Senior Game DesignerNetflix/Boss Fight Entertainment
Senior Game DesignerPhaser Lock Interactive
Game Designer IIBoss Fight Entertainment
Game DesignerKingsIsle Entertainment

Education

Texas State Universitybachelor, Lighting/Stage Design

Key Strengths

  • 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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Languages

English

Skills

UnityUnreal EngineFigmaMiroMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointAdobe PhotoshopJiraConfluencePythonC#Game DesignSystems DesignProgression DesignLive Ops