Senior Game Designer

Contact

✉️[email protected]

☎️(+84) 90 448 8831

Social Media

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🐤 Twitter

Toolset

Notion (documentation & database)

Whimsical (wireframing)

Unity

Github Desktop

Excel/Google Sheets

I am an active senior game designer with more than 10 years working in the video game industry at different levels, and more than 7 years as a game designer. I excel at designing game systems, writing and maintaining GDDs, pushing numbers on spreadsheets, and I’m comfortable with hands-on tasks inside game engines.


Education & Qualifications

University of Bradford, UK

Bachelor of Science in Business Management (2009 - 2013)

Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Certificate in Advanced English - Level C2

Issued Oct 2023

Credential ID C4421453

Career

Monster Box Studio

A trusted product team based in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, specialized in 3D Motion & Animation, which has worked on many animation and game projects for high-profile clients. At its peak, the game development team consisted of 30 people.

Lead Game Designer

2021-2024

Worked as Lead Game Designer of the game Rune Seeker at all stages: concept, prototyping, implementation, iteration, testing and operation. Tasks include designing systems, tools, wireframing, economy design & balancing. GDDs were primarily written and organized using Notion. Wireframes, mockups and graphs were in Whimsical. Spreadsheets were made using Google Sheets. Many other odd details and adjustments were written directly on ClickUp.

Ludo Lab

A solo consultancy agency that provides services related to game & gamification development, such as consultation, contract design work, workshops, staff training.

Founder/Editor-in-Chief

2021-present

Blog Game Hóa: A content/newsletter platform dedicated to game & gamification design. Designed website using no-code builder Ladipage. Designed and launched blog/newsletter using Substack. Directed a team of two freelancers to deliver weekly free/premium content.

Ludo Lab: Main agency business line. Designed portfolios. In charge of business, sales, client consultation, game design, hosting workshops, on-site equipment installation for certain gamified solutions, and a variety of hands-on technical tasks per client's requests.

WEEA, JSC.

A startup that raised one round of pre-seed funding, whose team members worked strictly remotely from different timezones.

Founder/CEO

2018 - 2020

A game startup, making a web-based, text-based narrative game called Dẫn Truyện. In charge of game design, monetization design, project management, and other business responsibilities.

Legasoft Studios

A small, Hanoi-based game development team of 8-10 people.