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Erik Wilkinson
Senior Game Designer specializing in systems, combat, and live-ops game modes
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Game designer with shipped experience on Squid Game Unleashed (mobile) and Radical Heights (battle royale), owning multiple modes end-to-end from paper design and greybox through tuning, QA, and live ops/backend rollout. Demonstrates strong Unreal/Blueprint prototyping, pacing-focused iteration (targeting 70–90s rounds), and building meta challenge systems that stay fresh via monthly/seasonal rotations and player-feedback-driven map weighting.
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Key Strengths
- Owned shipped game modes end-to-end (design through gold and live ops)
- Strong gameplay tuning for pacing targets (e.g., 70–90s match duration) via lives, map collapse, and layout iteration
- Rapid prototyping and implementation in Unreal using Blueprints (e.g., event/minigame logic)
- Designing flexible meta-progression/challenge systems tied to rotating modes and seasonal events
- Cross-functional alignment and simplification of complex modes based on retention/accessibility goals
- Experience setting up mode metrics and using player feedback to adjust map rotation/weighting
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