GD Team Size

• 2 Game Designers
• Splitting up the workload into design on my side and balancing on my coworker's side

Phases

• Full cycle

Responsibilities

• Lead Designer
• Initial pitch / conception of the game 
• Responsible for the design of all features throughout development, e.g. tutorial, quest system, world map expeditions, events, cooperative multiplayer dive, ...
• User Testing

GD Team Size

• 2 Game Designers
• Each with their own game pitches

Phases

• Initial phase only
• None of these pitches went into production

Responsibilities

• Creation of diverse pitches 
• Prototyping and user testing of selected ones 

GD Team Size

• 3 Game Designers plus 2 Level Designers

Phases

• Full cycle 
• Live Ops 

Responsibilities

• Lead Designer
• Initial pitch / conception of the game 
• Responsible for the design of all features throughout development, e.g. combat and skills, monsters and multiplayer bosses, meta game with diverse upgrade systems, …
• Tutorial Design in Unreal Blueprint System
• User Testing

GD Team Size

• 2 Game Designers

Phases

• Live Ops 

Responsibilities

• Starting at InnoGames this was my deep dive into the world F2P game mechanics, live ops, events and KPI analysis
• Content design for items and lots of quests
• Design for new features / redesign of  existing ones (like the shop) based on live data

GD Team Size

• 4 Game Designers

Phases

• Initial phase only
• Once the team started Assassin's Creed Identity I changed companies and cities for private reasons

Responsibilities

• Researching F2P games
• Creation of F2P pitches

GD Team Size

• 3-4 Game Designers

Phases

• Full Production until Launch
• This was a fast one to hit the console release date

Responsibilities

• Content design that included MoCap, design of the moves, workout design, assembly and voice-overs
• Tutorial, UX
• Design and rapid prototyping of the mini games
• Dance Workout design

GD Team Size

• I was not really a part of this team. During "My City" I helped out this project and got to know the team

Phases

• Production

Responsibilities

• Mainly my job was camera design for workouts
• This led me straight to the next project

GD Team Size

• 1 Game Designer

Phases

• Full Production until Launch
• Live ops

Responsibilities

• Lead Designer
• Being on my own, I learned a lot on this project, being a pretty inexperienced junior back then
• Feature design of all features, content design, quest design, balancing, tutorial, UX and so on 

GD Team Size

• 5 Game Designers plus Level Design Team 

Phases

• Joined during production until Launch

Responsibilities

• This was my first professional project, getting education by the Lead GD and the rest of the team, soaking up all knowledge like a sponge
• Supporting parts of the tutorial, supporting design aspects of the campaign, supporting AI balancing
• Working with QA

GD Team Size

• 2 Game Designers

Phases

• Demo Project only

Responsibilities

• Level Design with Cry Engine
• Design of riddles and narrative
• Getting to know what Game Design is