Genies & Gems

Platform:

  • Mobile

Team Size:

  • Approx 30

Roles:

  • Associate Game Designer

  • Associate Producer

  • Deployment Project Manager

  • QA Analyst

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and balance levels to ensure they are challenging but fair and fun for players

  • Playtest the game to identify and fix bugs, imbalances, and other issues

  • Analyze live data to identify issues and propose solutions for specific levels or game mechanics

  • Create and maintain detailed design documents to specify and propose game mechanics, systems, rules

  • Collaborate with other members of the game team such as artists, programmers, and QA to bring the game design to life

  • Communicate with stakeholders and team members to gather feedback and input on the game design

  • Stay up to date with industry trends, technologies, and best practices and incorporate those into the game and level design where appropriate

Associate Game Designer

Jan 2022 - Present

Contributions & Accomplishments

  • 400+ levels shipped

  • 100+ Retuned levels shipped

  • 2 features shipped

    • Custom Spawner

    • Cascade Controller

Associate Producer

Nov 2019 - Jan 2022

Contributions & Accomplishments

  • Facilitated a major UI and game system overhaul that removed the saga map and modernized the UX

  • Plan, create, and lead team meetings while taking notes and tracking action item completion

  • Plan, start, maintain, track, and close sprints

  • Create, assign, and track tasks and bugs for all team members in JIRA

  • Create development and release schedules

  • Manage all disciplines as well as 3rd party developers working in different time zones

  • Work with QA and engineers to ensure proper testing time, bug fix time, and build stability before release

  • Work with 3rd party vendors to get localization and sound, coordinate with departments to ensure proper implementation and quality.

  • Maintain and groom a backlog of features, work with all departments to determine timelines for features and decide priorities

  • Maintain and grow KPIs through live ops efforts and game updates

Deployment Project Manager

Oct 2018 - Nov 2019

  • Oversee and ensure all releases are successful and stable

  • Ensure high quality live player experience and respond to live player needs

  • Work directly with and attend meetings with dev team to help inform and guide new feature development and test plans

  • Create Test Plans for new features, maintain overall test plan for the QA team

  • Test new features - work closely with dev to identify issues early in development and inform production on progress/completion

  • Release Candidate and general testing to ensure stability of builds before going live

  • Ensure live ops events are stable and active, ensure A/B tests are correct and bug-free before going live

QA Analyst

Mar 2018 - Oct 2018

  • Work directly with and attend meetings with dev team to help inform and guide new feature development and test plans

  • Create Test Plans for new features, maintain overall test plan for the QA team

  • Test new features - work closely with dev to identify issues early in development and inform production on progress/completion

  • Release Candidate and general testing to ensure stability of builds before going live

  • Record and track build performance and inform the team on build stability

  • Ensure live ops events are stable and active, ensure A/B tests are correct and bug-free before going live