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Howdy! Nathan here!

I'm a multi-discipline Game Dev with experience on both indie projects and AAA titles. Nice to meetcha!

Gameplay feature designing and balancing via playtest data

Rapid Prototyping 3Cs, Systems, and Tools via Visual Script

Studio representative for overseas partnerships and pitches

Always up for creative projects to collaborate and produce satisfying gameplay experiences.

CV

Co-Op Dungeon Crawler | PC, Mobile | UE4 (Solo Dev)

Market Research and Solo Dev: Analysing ongoing audience trends for co-op dungeon-crawlers, rougelike and metroidvanias to deconstruct systems, look ahead in the genre landscape, and rebuild features via UE5 visual scripting.

Combat Anim Montage, VFX, and SFX study: Pushing game-feel by utilising animation principles and feedback stages within player-choice design; ensuring combat inputs are rewarded with juicy knockbacks, camera shakes, key-pose hitstuns, and more.

Ability-focused Progression: Player kits built modularly and systemically through pick-ups and equipment slots to promote player discovery while streamlining a development cycle. Encourage player agency in comp building, rather than purely through stats to highlight visible growth in team-based combat.

PvPvE Stealth Action | PC, Console | UE4

Combat Design: Balancing a Rock/Paper/Scissors PvP match-up and introducing Perks that fulfil "hidden roles" to promote player/community discovery of builds. Designed and prototyped the 5th Character combat-kit based on live data to fill gaps in team dynamics.
Progression and Live Ops: Researching and compiling hour-to-hour engagement loop material for ability unlocks, Daily Challenges and Lore Tapestries. Championed an playable overhaul to the legacy second-to-second / minute-to-minute engagement loops, addressing the team-play fantasy and UX as per internal playtest and live community feedback.

Mission Design: Pitching and prototyping an onboarding encounter scenario through a visual-scripted mission system, refining with sequencer animatics to showcase hero 3Cs and the unity pillar.

PvP Runner | PC | UE5

Project Startup: Building from Hood assets and leading a small prototyping team building a new locomotion-system for the studio. Championing an original set of parkour-survival concepts, adapting, and collating user research for a changing market alongside Design Director. Producing A/B product decks for investors and publishers.

Locomotion UX: Prototyping and balancing early movement-based abilities to embrace a flow state. Supporting junior staff in creating features for balancing movement-based combat and providing milestone reviews to refine 3C UX.

Game Mode Exotics: Prototyping exotic game modes to appear as part of a rotating event playlist, such as a Survivors vs Boss team-based survival mode.

More Titles

Critter Café

Solo Critter Collector | UE5

Mission/Puzzle 3Cs and Design Workshops
Narrative Support and Progression support

FBC: Firebreak

Co-Op PvE | Proprietary Game Engine

Co-Op Ability and Weapon Design
Mission / Encounter Design support

Unannounced Story-focused Stealth Title

TBA | UE5

Weapons and Ability Design

Unannounced GaaS Extraction-Shooter

TBA | UE5

Locomotion 3Cs
Rapid Design Iteration and Visual Scripting

Functionality Tester Experience

External & Student Support

Experience showcasing projects externally (Talks, Twitch, Podcasts). University event support to help upskill undergrads and share their creative talents.

Get in touch!

Examples of Design Documentation and RGD Workshops are available upon request. Get in touch! ⭐