Unity
Chinenye "CJ" Ajawara
Gameplay Designer
Union City,CA
Summary
A passionate designer that desires to further learn the craft and express creativity. Hired by a small team right out of college, where he received first hand experience of the development process, and now seeks a larger team with a live product with strong structure and internal knowledge. Learned to become a T-Shaped designer and took classes on art, sound, and programming. Created over a hundred maps, monsters, weapons, items, and spells for tabletop roleplaying campaigns. Keeping mechanics and game feel as priority. Built two discord servers with peers for a public RP server with original systems, sporting 600 members, as well as a pokemon bot used by thousands of users.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
QA Tester and Jr. Game Designer
Free Range Games
Sausalito, CA
06.2021 - 12.2022
- Balanced and created consumables, health effects, and how breakable terrain was in Return to Moria.
- Collaborated with art team and level designers to add the feature of breakable architecture In Return to Moria.
- Used debugging techniques to identify issues with computer code and resolve errors.
- Extensively studied and created paper prototype levels for Return to Moria, with the hopes of having the terrain be exciting, and provide a challenge along with game feel.
- Learn the importance of questions and communications while working in Return to Moria, now strives to ask as many questions as possible to ensure goals and visions are executed the first time.
- Collaborated with artists and the audio team to dress all of the NPC's, create audio cues, faint gossip and chatter, and create cut scenes for an unannounced project. The result was a bustling nightlife for the demo that was well received.
- Learned the importance of asking questions and communicating while working on Return to Moria, now strives to ask as many questions as possible to ensure goals and visions are executed the first time.
- Kept a notebook during meetings with peers and design leads while working on Return to Moria, would write important details and tasks.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Game Design
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN 08.2017 - 05.2021
Skills
Gaming design
undefinedSoftware
Unreal
Twine
Blender
Godot
Photoshop
Illustrator
Timeline
QA Tester and Jr. Game Designer
Free Range Games
06.2021 - 12.2022
Bachelor of Science - Game Design
Indiana University Bloomington
08.2017 - 05.2021
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