Athena Dai.

Worked in Confluence and Unreal Engine 4 to build designs from paper spec to production ready systems.
Worked closely with developers across all disciplines to scope out systems for different stages of game release.
Owned and maintained modularity in game systems for ease of use and understanding for other developers.
Field and respond to player feedback in public forum spaces.
Communicate design/game vision and playtest with game stakeholders and investors.
Designed, implemented, and owned systems including but not limited to:
- The game wide interaction system.
- Entity spawning pipelines.
- Player character ability kits.
- In game hazards, interactables, and POIs.
- Entity state machines and entity aggro behavior.

Designed ingame systems based off user feedback, research shares, and yearly initiatives.
Used Figma, Miro, JIRA, Confluence, and Adobe Photoshop to communicate design intentions.
Created and maintained game design documents.
Communicated with engineers, UI/UX artists, and more to iterate on design goals.
Led brainstorms and design kickoff meetings to determine scope and direction of designs.
Used existing telemetry hooks and research to communicate further analytics/research needed.

Organized patch presentation for Hearthstone 18.0
Playtested and gave feedback for new content and systems within various Blizzard games
Created and executed test plans for various new content patches and system patches in Hearthstone
Created a globalized confluence page containing all current Hearthstone cheats
Discovered and bugged live operation errors for content releases and patches
Confirmation tested and critiqued new Hearthstone systems and gamemodes
Tested and bugged VFX and card expansions for Scholomance Academy content patch.
Updated, logged, and fixed Hearthstone production accounts used in testing

Directed teams of seven to nine people of varying coding and artistic experience to create games in six month pipelines.
Designed, prototyped, and implemented movement, combat, game mechanics, boss ai, and health systems in C#.
Designed and created levels using Adobe Suite, and in-engine tilemaps.
Created concept art, animations, textures, UI, environment, and sound effects.
Used Trello, UnityCloud, and Github to manage game scope/systems and pipelines.
Maintained and updated version branches and patches for all team members.
Designer, project lead, and/or sole developer of multiple indie projects, found here.

Implement different mini-games/features for iOS builds
Designed and optimized around existing mini-games/features
Imported a game to Unity Game Engine by writing C# scripts
Updated compatability between Unity and thirdparty plugins, like xBrain, Firebase, and beyond
Communicated with a design team through products like JIRA, Sourcetree, and BitBucket

Organize and host various game jams, theme nights, and other events to introduce others to game design
Promote Unity Engine through advertising materials
Conceptualize and plan overall quarterly tutorials in all aspects of Unity and game design
Lead game design -art, programming, music- workshops using Unity Engine with the aim of making game design more accessible

Athena Dai