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        Lightless is a Masters Capstone project being worked on by 7 Game Design and Development Graduate Students, 2 Audio Composers and 2 Typographers. For my Master's thesis, I am researching into light-based puzzle design. On Lightless, I am working as the Game Producer and Game Designer.

Game Producer: 

• Using Agile principles created the project timeline and milestones and conducting standup meetings twice a week

• Managing sprint cycles, contingency planning, minimizing bottlenecks and resolving roadblocks.

• Assigning resources and overseeing development, design and art teams and feature integration

• Leading the creation of milestone presentations and ensuring all game design and development processes are well-documented

• Ensuring all the project artifacts are updated frequently

• In charge of running playtests

Game Designer 

• Leading design sessions to brainstorm features and mechanics. 

• Researching into environment based puzzle design and light-based mechanics to design player, AI and tool behaviors. 

• Created the design and development documents. 

• Ensuring implementation of mechanics has the right game feel and all features match the unified design for our game.

• Designing numerous modular puzzles to be integrated with the level

Level Designer

• Designed the mechanics -demo level showcased at Magic Spell Studio's grant opening 2018.

• Designed the gameplay-demo level being showcased at GDC 2019

• Working with the level design team to create a captivating environment. 

• Ensuring the level layout has good pacing and flow. 

• Integrating puzzles in the level and populating the world to create a sense of mystery and danger to fit the game's theme of cautious exploration. 

• Grayboxing the level segments in Maya and exporting to Unity