CAREER SUMMARY

 

Creative Manager, Narrative Lead and Game Designer at GAMUCATEX, May 2023 – Present

Project: Tectonicus: On the Edge of War, card-based strategy game rooted in historical warfare

• Head of Story Mode development: branching narrative within the bounds of historical accuracy

• Narrative team management: workload, directions of work, individual and interpersonal mental well-being, professional team growth

• Overseeing and assisting creative processes in the studio to match the game vision: Game Design, Art, Sound, History Integration, SoMe

• New features and mechanics: ideation, design, prototyping, implementation control, testing and iterating

• Facilitating GD meetings every two weeks and ND meetings twice a week, managing agendas 

• Organization and analysis of internal and external game testing sessions 

• User Journey, screen maps, GDD, WDD creation and maintenance

• Market and competitor research

• Documentation and templates for game design, narrative design and production 

• Website management, social media strategies and content creation

• Funding applications

• Shortlisting and assessing game and narrative design candidates, participating in onboarding and offboarding processes

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Video game journalist at Game World Navigator Magazine trusted by Metacritic, Feb – Mar 2022

• Wrote 3 articles, all got printed in the paper version of the magazine

• Prepared scripts for 2 episodes of the magazine’s show on YouTube

• Recorded game footage for a video guide on Monster Hunter Rise

 

Project leader of two university filming projects, Jan – May, Sep – Dec 2021

• Created concept pitches and scripts for both videos

• Organized the teamwork

• Arranged and ran on-site filming sessions

• Controlled and participated in the video editing process

• Presented projects in class and received 100/100 marks for both

 

Writer at the Neftegazeta corporate magazine by BRANDS COMING ALIVE, Jul – Oct 2020 

• Conducted a dozen of telephone interviews with the oil company employees

• Wrote articles on given problems, basing on insider information about the company and employees’ accounts

• Got the texts and layouts approved by interviewees and editors

 

Assistant at production team and Trainee correspondent at Channel One Russia, Sep – Nov 2019

• Facilitated communication and coordination between the mobile TV station, correspondents, and cameramen at on-site shootings

• Flew to Riga as a correspondent joined by a cameraman to film part of junior Grand Prix series in figure skating 

 

Writer and translator at Prokoni.ru, equestrian web resource, Jul – Sep 2019  

• Prepared analytical entries upon the results of tournaments and changes in rankings, as well as news pieces and in-depth articles

• Arranged the layouts and published my entries on the website

• Designed announcements for social media

• Worked to tight deadlines

 

Portrait and sports photographer, self-employed, 2017 – 2019