Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Interests
Game Jams
Additional Information
Timeline
GeneralManager

Damian Dragos

Game Balance Tester
Bucuresti

Summary

Highly energetic professional with over 5 years of experience and meticulous eye for detail. Thorough understanding of gaming trends.Robust experience in creating games while working both in a team and individually. Achieves intended concepts according to project requirements by utilizing diverse technology resources. Poised and committed in listening carefully to critiques and requests, incorporating feedback and boosting project outcomes to surpass expectations.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Languages

Work History

Game Designer & Producer

DD& D Kira Games Studios
06.2018 - 08.2021
  • Responsible for co-ordinating and supervising the work within that team, ensuring that all work is carried out in time and according to the requierments of the project
  • Working with designers/artists and programmers on interactive learning platform
  • Interactive work place communication
  • Devising the design documents and identifying the requiered assets and functionality
  • UI Design
  • Systems Design
  • Devising the testing protocols for the alpha and beta stages of the products

Game Designer

Cloudberry Systems
10.2015 - 06.2017
  • Experience working as part of the team, understanding and taking directions
  • Devising the design documents and identifying the requiered assets and functionality


Project Developer

New York Crew
Galati
11.2014 - 06.2017
  • Creating projects to promote sports and sporting activities, mainly less conventional and extreme sports
  • Working with teams with various sizes, volunteers and group leaders
  • Comunicating and ensuring the projects are achieved as planned

Education

Master of Arts - Game Design

UNATC Bucharest
Bucharest
10.2021 - Current

Bachelor’s Degree - Marketing

ASE Bucuresti
10.2018 - 06.2021

Bachelor’s Degree - Game Design

Hanze University of Applied Sciences
Netherlands
09.2016 - 12.2018

Diploma -

National College "Costache Negri
01.2012 - 01.2016

Skills

Documentation skills

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Interests

TTRPGs- DnD (both DM and play in different campaigns), Traveller, Call of Cthulhu, Blades in the Dark, City of Mist (MC)

Miniature Painting

Storytelling and Worldbuilding

Game Jams

Ukie Student Game Jam: Collab-jam- November 2021- 1st Place

Additional Information

Examples of some of my favorite games in about every single genre that I have experience with


1. Action

1.1. Platformer games- Super Mario Bros

1.2. Shooter games- Splitgate

1.3. Fighting games- Tekken

1.4. Beat 'em up games- God of War

1.5. Stealth game- Thief

1.6. Survival games- Project Zomboid

1.7. Rhythm games- Osu

1.8. Battle Royale games- Apex

2. Action-adventure

2.1. First-person action-adventure- Half Life 2

2.2. Third-person action-adventure- Legend of Zelda

3. Adventure

3.1. Text adventures- Oregon Trail

3.2. Graphic adventures- To the Moon

3.3. Visual novels- Ace Attorney

3.4. Interactive movie- Fahrenheit

3.5. Real-time 3D adventures- Psychonauts

4. Puzzle

4.1. Breakout clone game- Arkanoid

4.2. Logical game

4.2.1. Physics game- Portal

4.2.2. Coding game- Infinifactory

4.3. Trial-and-error / exploration- Limbo

4.4. Hidden object game- Hidden Folks

4.5. Reveal the picture game- A lot of the games off of Miniclip probably still to this day

4.6. Tile-matching game- Mahjong Trails

4.7. Traditional puzzle game- Solitaire

5. Role-playing

5.1. Action RPG- Diablo

5.2. MMORPG- Star Wars: The Old Republic

5.3. Roguelikes- Warm Snow

5.4. Tactical RPG- Darkest Dungeon

5.5. Sandbox RPG- Kenshi

5.6. First-person party-based RPG- Wizardry

5.7. JRPG- Final Fantasy

5.8. Monster Tamer- Pokemon

6. Simulation

6.1. Construction and management simulation- Sim City

6.2. Life simulation- Goghood

6.3. Vehicle simulation- EuroTruck Simulator

7. Strategy

7.1 4X game- Civ 5

7.2. Artillery game- Worms

7.3. Auto battler (Auto chess)- Teamfight Tactics

7.4. Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA)- Smite

7.5. Real-time strategy (RTS)- Battle for Middle Earth

7.6. Real-time tactics (RTT)- Myth: The Fallen Lords

7.7. Tower defense- Bloons

7.8. Turn-based strategy (TBS)- Heroes of Might and Magic

7.9. Turn-based tactics (TBT)- X-Com

7.10. Wargame- Total War Shogun 2/Total War Warhammer 2

7.11. Grand strategy wargame- Crusader Kings/ Hearts of Iron

8. Sports

8.1. Racing- Forza Horizon

8.2. Sports game- NBA 2K

8.3. Competitive- Rocket League

8.4. Sports-based fighting- WWE 2K

9. MMO

9.1. MMORPG- EVE Online

9.2. MMOFPS- PlanetSide 2

9.3. MMORTS- Travian

9.4. MMOTBS- Planetarion

10. Horror

10.1. Survival horror- Resident Evil

10.2. Action horror- Dead Space

10.3. Psychological horror- Silent Hill

10.4. Jump scare horror- Five Nights at Freddy’s

10.5. Reverse horror- Dead by Daylight

11. Other genres

11.1. Casual games- Plants vs Zombies

11.2. Digital collectible card game- MTG Arena

11.3. Gacha game- Genshin Impact

11.4. Idle game- Cookie Clicker

11.5. Party game- Rayman Raving Rabbids

11.6. Programming game- SpaceChem

11.7. Social deduction game- Among Us

11.8. Trivia game- Triviador

11.9. Typing game- TypeRacer

Timeline

Master of Arts - Game Design

UNATC Bucharest
10.2021 - Current

Bachelor’s Degree - Marketing

ASE Bucuresti
10.2018 - 06.2021

Game Designer & Producer

DD& D Kira Games Studios
06.2018 - 08.2021

Bachelor’s Degree - Game Design

Hanze University of Applied Sciences
09.2016 - 12.2018

Game Designer

Cloudberry Systems
10.2015 - 06.2017

Project Developer

New York Crew
11.2014 - 06.2017

Diploma -

National College "Costache Negri
01.2012 - 01.2016
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