Bombay Play, Bengaluru, India

Game Designer

June 2023-Present

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● Designed and shipped content and features for BlockHeads (Google Play's Best Indie Game 2023) and Dragon Tile
● Led the content generation pipeline, ideating and designing 8 perks, 10 legendary boosters, mixers, and 100+ solo levels, which contributed to a 150 bps increase in new payer conversion and a 20% uplift in repeat payer ARPDAU. | BlockHeads
● Developed a paywall booster system based on player segmentation by capitalising on high-demand content while maintaining retention.
● Initiated live-ops by creating the event infrastructure framework and introducing time-bound events (Event currency reward track, 24-hour race event, Skip it upsell): +30 bps D7 retention, +7% session length, +8% IAP ARPDAU | BlockHeads
● Responsible for content generation, including 1600+ levels (Level design, difficulty tuning and sorting) and narrative arcs. | Dragon Tile
● Delivering features/meta-features to support the core gameplay through specs, mock-ups, and UI flows.
● Collaborated cross-functionally with product managers, artists, developers, and QA to align features with design goals, player needs, and overall game vision.

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Lila Games, Bengaluru, India

Game Designer

January 2021-March 2023

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● Part of the founding team for the startup working on a F2P looter survival shooter game | BLACK
● Designed features for a complex system-driven mobile game on Unity Engine.
● Researched and deconstructed competitor titles to identify design opportunities and best practices.
● Collaborating with developers and artists to ensure features are integrated as per design specs.
● Set up the level design pipeline for combat and free roam levels, optimising collaboration between design and art teams.

 

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TUCan Digital Studio, Middlesbrough, UK

Junior Technical Designer

January-April 2019

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● Collaborated with a multifaceted Production Studio Team at an award-winning commercial studio, supporting
The delivery of commercial projects
● Instrumental in completing VR, AR and simulation projects
● Identified client’s requirements, created prototypes in the engine, utilising accumulated design skills to
match requirements
● An instrumental part of client meetings, delivering key concepts as necessary
● Supported the development and optimisation of projects

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Projects included:
● Developed AR apps for educational purposes
● Undertook VR projects for a virtual guide to heritage places, tour guide and education purpose
● An instrumental

Project Animalia: Unreal Engine (2019-2020)
● Analysed and designed an action-adventure game, raising awareness of environmental destruction and
animal poaching, balancing and progression, working autonomously
● Established levels and scenarios
● Refined system designs and simulation variables
● Worked to timeframes, providing informed estimations
 

Off Duty: Unity Engine (2019)
● Implemented a narrative in a niche setting, in an FPS game, promoting linear progression and balanced
gameplay
 

InCargnito: Unreal Engine (2018-2019)
● Created and embedded a mechanic in an unfamiliar environment, devising a multiple-approach stealth game,
based on a racing environment
 

Relic: Unreal Engine (2018)
● Created and implemented entire level layout, assets (Maya) and mission design, operating as Lead Level
Designer within a group project devising a Metroidvania-style first-person shooter game, focusing on
discovering an artefact on an alien planet
 

Journey Home - A Toy’s Tale: Unreal Engine (2018)
● Collaborated with a multifaceted team creating environmental 3D assets, using Blender, and creating a first-person shooter game in Horde mode