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Who I am

Versatile and dedicated Game designer

I'm a well rounded professional with a passion for making games of all types. I enjoy learning new methods and tools to make better games, so I'm constantly improving. I love spreadsheets, flowcharts and hastily drawn sketches of levels and mechanics. I excel at finding creative solutions for new problems and being part of a team where we can collaborate to fix issues and find new ways to make fun experiences.

Where I've worked

IMIRT, Ireland- Board Member

January 2024 - Present

One of the elected board members of IMIRT, the Irish Game Developers association. Representing the interests and needs of game developers across the island. Helping the Irish games industry grow and develop further.

• Representing the organization in events.

• Finding opportunities from governmental bodies.

• Helping with Public Relations of the organization.

• Planning and hosting workshops for skill development.

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Black Shamrock, Dublin - Senior Game Designer

November 2023 - Present

Leading a team working on Ken Levine’s upcoming game ‘Judas’ (Can’t say much else yet).

• Writing Documentation.

• Managing and reviewing the work of several game designers.

• Collaborating with designers and other developers across multiple time zones.

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PAradox Interactive, Stockholm - Content Designer for Hearts of Iron

August 2021 - November 2023

Worked on the acclaimed WWII Grand Strategy game, designing content for playing during the 30s and 40s using History as a base for creating gameplay to recreate iconic events, and establishing alt-history scenarios and implementing it all on Paradox’s proprietary scripting language and engine.

• Research based historical and alt-historical narrative design.

• Light systems design grounded on real factors of the period.

• Collaborating with other disciplines to achieve a polished expansion.

• Implementing designs through scripting.

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Black Shamrock, Dublin - Senior Level Designer

January 2021 - August 2021

Black Shamrock, Dublin - Level Designer

August 2018 - January 2021

Making levels and quests for Obsidian Entertainment titles like The Outer Worlds expansions and Grounded. Working in a team dedicated to writing documentation as a starting point, using Unreal Engine for iterating on Level Design, and employing Blueprints and custom tools for scripting missions. Also designed levels and mechanics for an unannounced AAA VR game for PS4.  

• Working on levels and quests from conceptualization to polishing.

• Rapid documentation and prototyping.

• Iterating Level Design based on playtesting and feedback.

• Working in a team under pressure and tight deadlines.

• Mentoring Junior members of the team.

• Player-Experience oriented Design.

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Simteractive, Dublin - Junior Game Designer

November 2016 - August 2018

Part of the team working on the award nominated mobile game Eden Isle: Resort Paradise. I'm focused on improving the game's balance, making new content for it, designing new features and carefully planning the game's progression.

• Created 100+ goals for players to complete.

• Managed player's experience in the long and short term.

• In charge of the game's balance.

• Designed some of the social features, added gameplay specific UI elements and helped design the implementation of the production system.

• Constantly looking for ways to improve the game based on playtesting and analytics.

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Simteractive, Dublin - Game Design Intern

March 2016 - November 2016

Joined the team at Simteractive to help improve the game, and in the process, learn all the skills necessary to make and run a successful free to play mobile management game.

• Learned how to balance months of gameplay through spreadsheets.

• Improved my ability to write design documents.

• Learned how to diagram game mechanics.

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BitSmith Games, Dublin - Level Design Intern

May 2015 - November 2015

Worked on FranknJohn, a rogue-like adventure game available on Steam Early Access. It features small modular levels that are randomly organised each run so the possibilities are almost endless.

• Made over 35 modular levels for FranknJohn.

• Learned to guide player's attention and experience on each of them.

• Improved my knowledge of 3DS Max, where the levels were made.

What I'm good at

• Quickly adapting to new tools and tasks

• Working in a team to reach our goals

• Thinking outside the box

• Finding creative solutions with the resources available

• Caring about the small details.

What I know how to Use

• Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Blueprints.

• Unity

• C#

• Flurry, GameAnalytics, iTunesConnect and Unity Analytics suites.

• Xcode

• Excel and the rest of MS Office Suite.

• Adobe CC Suite.

Pulse College, Dublin

FETAC Level 6 in Media Production (Games Development)
Graduated November 2015

• Game Design.

• Unity and Unreal game engines.

• Narrative Design.

• Project Management.

• Student of the Year Award.

• National Finalist Microsoft Imagine Cup.

UCAB, Caracas

Bachelor of Arts in Mass Media, Audiovisual Arts
Graduated February 2014

• Film Production and editing.

• Live TV production and recording.

• Writing for film, TV, radio and digital media.

• Mass media theory and ethics.

Roles

Junior Game Designer, QA.

Description

Build and manage your own tropical island resort, to escape and meet tonnes of wacky characters. Build accommodation, activities, businesses and décor items to help your guests have the holidays of their lifetimes. Eden Isle Resort Paradise is a mobile free to play game for iOS with gorgeous art, engaging systems and lots of goals the player can complete to help their guests and get to know more about them. Learn more at www.EdenIsleGame.com

Roles

Director, Game Designer, Level Designer, Unreal Engine 4 Blueprints

Description

Shrunk is a platform adventure game where you take the role of a scientist whose experiment has gone right! Except on the wrong subject. Help him get back to his original size (Or at least bigger) by using his miniature scaling beam to shrink and expand objects to gather enough crystals to fuel the ScalingBack machine at the other side of the room. It was made from the ground up using Unreal Engine 4 Blueprints, and it features a sandbox style level, populated jumping pads, slippery leaks, puzzles and platforming challenges, taking advantage of the main mechanic of scaling objects up and down.

Roles

All of them!

Description

In the year 20XX there are no more elections in the US, instead, the electoral college chooses which one of the candidates gets to live. Only 20 days until election date! To be the living candidate, you must swing states to your favour by making statements every day, but choose your words carefully, for they might anger other voters. You also have 4 abilities at your disposal, you can run a State Poll to know the preferences of that state, Campaign to increase your favour in one state, Fundraise to lose some voter but get more funds for your campaign, or you can pay an exorbitant amount of money to Leak, who know what will happen if you do?

Roles

Director, Game Designer, Level Designer.

Description

LIFT is a side scrolling puzzle game where Commander Woc -An alien cow- must rescue her ancestors from the grasp of the humans who use them for food and clothing. You can lift objects and cows, but to make sure you are not seen, you’ll have to distract the inhabitants of this town with whatever is lying around.

Roles

Level Design Intern

Description

As part of my Level Design internship for bitSmith games, I designed around 35 levels for the game FranknJohn, an action rogue-like currently in Steam Early Access. I used 3ds Max to build the levels out of pre-made assets and craft fun levels for the player to explore in the game.

Roles

Director, Game Designer, Level Designer, Unity 3D Programmer.

Description

You were trapped in a dungeon by an evil wizard, and all you have at your disposal to escape is a magical torch and a magical bonfire, and some magical colored objects…Maybe your odds aren’t that bad… Just pick up the objects and throw them into the fire and absorb its color with your torch, you can also combine different objects to mix colors like purple, green and orange, and use the colors to break the magic colored ice doors.