I'm a Game Designer who loves to create, share and entertain

15 Years

Of Experience

23 Projects

Completed

2 Award Winning

Games

60+ Students

Mentored

A GAME DESIGNER

Focused on Systems Design and User Experience

Since 2007, I strive to create games that bring emotions to players regardless of the platform. Leveraging all the available tools at my disposal, I aim to make the creation of these games as entertaining for my team by being a proactive communicator, team player and problem solver.

A TEACHER

Brewing the next generation of Game Designers

After playing a key role in the inception of the Arc Academy, I joined the pioneering team of experts coming from major Bulgarian studios as a Game Design Teacher and Jury member. Since 2019, we helped more than 100 students to master the craft of game development, leading to hires in studios worldwide.

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ACHIEVEMENTS

Career Highlights

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Game Design Director

Gameloft

Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Defined a new, dictionnary level, vocabulary for our design department to harmonize communication and expectations across all 4 projects.
  • Reworked the entire documentation workflow to synchronize the design process with Confluence and the SCRUM methodology during our 2-month long update cycle.
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Associate Producer

Interplay

Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Worked as a Liaison officer between the L.A. based office in charge of the Design, and the Bulgaria production office Masthead Studios in order to deliver a massively ambitious Fallout MMORPG.
  • Introduce a light SCRUM framework to improve our implementation cycles in between new creative brief deliveries from Irvine.
  • Immersed myself in the wasteland of Drudzhba neighborhood, drawing inspiration from abandonned buildings and sidewalk sellers.
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Game Designer

The Mighty Troglodytes

Strasbourg, France
  • As the main game designer on “Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow” I had to retro-engineer the 16MB Nintendo DS game and design a game that would fit in 800KB of the nokia K800.
  • Obtained the “Bronze Award” from PocketGamer
  • Received official congratulations from the original game team for the quality and level of fidelity of the mobile game
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Game Manager

Gameloft

Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Brought the project on the path to profitability in under 6 months by rebalancing the roadmap to reduce high-cost centers without compromising on quality.
  • Improved community engagement by being more transparent, introducing community focused activities and implementing social features.
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Game Director

Gameloft

Sofia, Bulgaria
  • From early ideation to worldwide release, I have been part of the Core Team of War Planet Online and helped shape its innovations in term of Tycoon, World Map and Combat systems.
  • Iterated through more than 6 complete variations of the Crafting System, leading to a sustainable, expandable and highly profitable feature for the past 7 years.
  • Mentored our Combat Designer from Junior up to Lead. He managed the team by himself after update 8.

TESTIMONIALS

"ALEX IS A BLAST TO WORK WITH"

Over the years I came across wonderful colleagues who helped me grow and learn. And over the years I did my best to be one of those I would love to work with.

 

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Kiryl Krayushkin

Lead Editorial Game Design @ Gameloft

Nikolay Dimitrov

Technical Director @ Gameloft Sofia

Blog Posts

My latest Game Design Perspectives

I regularly write about my learnings, findings and conendrums about games and game design. I have a perticular knack for systems design and game design theory.