I'm Theo, a Unity-certified, data-driven professional game designer with almost 4 years of experience across all facets of design.

I've been a professional designer on 14 titles, 10 of which shipped, with several of those taken from pre-production through to live operations

I've worked on both independent titles and well-known IP from big publishers.

I make PC and mobile games solo in my spare time (8 so far!) for fun and continuous learning, and mentor individuals new to, or looking to enter, the games industry as part of the Limit Break mentorship program.

Professional Contributions Highlights

Human: Fall Flat

Short Description: Human: Fall Flat is a physics-based puzzler published by Curve Digital, achieving massive success as one of the highest-selling games of all time.

Design Contribution Overview:

In-engine (Unity) level creation
Level design documentation

Platform: PC

Project Length (individual time on the project): 2 months.

Engine & Tools: Unity (2019), Photoshop, Confluence and Jira.

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Snipers vs Thieves: The Heist

Short Description: Snipers Vs Thieves: The Heist is the latest instalment from the blockbuster PvP multiplayer shooter franchise with over 10m+ downloads across the App Store and Google Play Store.

Design Contribution Overview:

Core gameplay features
Meta & retention systems design
Monetization design
FTUE & onboarding design
Gameplay balancing

Platform: Mobile (Android & iOS)

Project Length (individual time on the project): 6 months.

Engine & Tools: Unity (2019), Adobe XD (wireframes & screen flows), Miro, Photoshop, Playtest Cloud (playtesting analysis), Google Sheets (remote config for balancing), TortoiseGit (Git interface), Confluence and Jira.

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Stealth-Launched Football Game

Short Description: Before its cancellation after soft launch, I worked on a mobile football game from a new franchise. It was a spiritual successor to a legendary British football IP, led by its pioneering co-creator.

Design Contribution Overview:

Core gameplay features design
Content roadmap planning
FTUE & onboarding design
UI/UX design

Platform: Mobile (Android & iOS)

Project Length (individual time on the project): 1.5 years

Engine & Tools: Unity (2022) Adobe XD (wireframes & screen flows), Figma, Miro, Photoshop, TortoiseGit (Git interface), Confluence and Jira.

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Block Twist!

Short Description: I conceptualised and became the only designer on Block Twist!, a new take on the Match-3 genre that combines multiple block rotations and swapping to match 3 or more blocks to score huge points

Design Contribution Overview:

Core gameplay features design
Level design
FTUE & onboarding design
UI/UX design
Meta design

Platform: Mobile (Android)

Project Length (individual time on the project): 1 month+

Engine & Tools: Unity (2022), Google Gemini (AI for UI design assistance), Figma, Photoshop, TortoiseGit (Git interface), Confluence and Jira.

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Casual, Hybridcasual & Hypercasual Titles

Short Description: Before our studio's pivot to solely developing the Unannounced Football Game, I had been alternating between our casual & hypercasual projects (roughly 2 per month), performing numerous design duties from the pre-production phase to post-launch.

Design Contribution Overview:

Level design documentation & white-boxing
In-engine (Unity) level creation
Game design documentation creation
Gameplay, economy & meta balancing
Art design pass (reskinning)
Monetization design
FTUE & onboarding design
Progression & meta-design

Platforms: Mobile

Cumulative Time On Casual & Hypercasual Projects: 6 months

Engine & Tools: Unity (2022), ProBuilder, Adobe XD (wireframes & screen flows), Photoshop, TortoiseGit (Git interface), Confluence and Jira.

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Self-Made Games Highlights

The Vessel

Short Description: The Vessel (working title) is a dual-character-controlled puzzle game in which the user must move two characters to the next room at the same time; if one character isn't by the door, neither character can progress. Puzzle elements, such as blocks with different properties, timed doors, teleports and other systems, provide challenge and variety.

Core Design Concept: To combine the puzzle mechanics of games such as The Talos Principle, with a puzzle design philosophy of: 'the puzzle pieces are right under your nose, but it's up to you to piece them together', with simultaneous, dual-character control.

Platform: PC (Windows.)

Project Length: 18 months (and counting!)

Engine & Tools: Unity (2021), Visual Studio (C# Programming), AI models (ElevenLabs, Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok), ProBuilder, Photoshop, and Sourcetree.

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Chuck The Duck

Short Description: A casual roguelike using streamlined tap, drag and release mechanics to navigate through levels, dodging and attacking enemies, using currency to unlock abilities for that next run.

Core Design Concept: There were very few streamlined roguelike games for a casual mobile audience, and even fewer that embedded light city-building mechanics, allowing users to build their own city, with each unlock providing both a cosmetic and practical (abilities) benefit.

Platform: Mobile (Android).

Project Length: 12 months.

Engine & Tools: Unity (2020), Visual Studio (C# Programming), Blender, Photoshop, Openshot (open-source video editor), Trello & DALL•E (generative image creation via Bing Create), Sourcetree.

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Spirit of the God Kings

Short Description: Place numerical cards to ensure rows and columns equal a total sum, underpinned by an emotional narrative about loss and acceptance.

Core Design Concept: To utilise the already-established mechanics of the walking simulator genre and the benefits that gameplay type brings alongside a second, entirely different gameplay type centred on using cards and tabletop-like mechanics to solve puzzles.

Platform: PC (Windows.)

Project Length: 12 months.

Engine & Tools: Unity (2020), Visual Studio (C# Programming), ProBuilder, Blender, Photoshop, Openshot (open-source video editor), Sourcetree and Trello.

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Bouncy Ball: Idle Cash

Short Description: A hypercasual idle game whereby the user spends soft currency on unlockable tiles that grant power-ups, cash, resources, and scenery that reveals more of the world around them.

Core Design Concept: To create a streamlined, simple, and partially hands-off experience that could be played by a wide variety of different audiences, offering incremental moments of joy with quick earnings and progress.

Platform: Mobile (Android).

Project Length: 6 months.

Engine & Tools: Unity (2020), Visual Studio (C# Programming), Photoshop, Clipchamp (open-source video editor), Sourcetree and Trello.