What I bring to a game, a team and a studio. A practical overview of the work behind the case studies.
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Gunzilla: a design organization grown from roughly 5 to 25+.
Build systems that make sense together.
The Settlers Online: new demand structures in a player-driven economy.
Understand what people experience, then improve it.
Off The Grid: player engagement, motivation and progression foundations.
Connect player value with a sustainable product.
The Settlers Online: product turnaround and renewed technical investment.
Design the incentives around shared play.
Experience across AAA multiplayer and live-service systems.
Turn a promising idea into a buildable plan.
Off The Grid: release planning across PC, PlayStation and Xbox.
Stay close to implementation and investigate new approaches.
Ubisoft: original Settlers 8 development, prototyping and procedural-generation R&D.
Keep player needs and team decisions connected.
Ubisoft: international support and payment operations across online games.
Production experience, working familiarity and current prototyping practice, without treating every tool as a specialization.
Jira · Confluence · Excel · PowerPoint · Word · Notion
Unity · Godot for hands-on prototypes. Unreal Engine · Snowdrop as part of the broader development toolset.
Photoshop · GIMP · Blender · 3ds Max · SketchUp
XML · Scripting · APIs · Automation. Working familiarity with code.
Power BI · Analytics dashboards · KPI analysis · A/B testing
Concept exploration · Development support · Asset workflows · Workflow automation
Concepts, game direction, playable prototypes, market validation and production scope.
Senior Player Engagement Systems Designer → Lead Game Designer → Associate Game Director / Junior Product Director.
The Settlers Online: systems, economy, LiveOps, monetization and live-game leadership.
Original Settlers 8 development, systems, UX, Technical Design training, PILGRIM and procedural generation.
Player support, worldwide payment coordination and international service leadership.
Production and quality-assurance experience during Game Design studies, including Anno 1404: Venice.
B.Sc. Game Design, Mediadesign University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf. Earlier studies in mathematics and computer science. Research experience with Fraunhofer FIT’s IPerG pervasive games project.
Industry talks, workshops, conference speaking, podcast conversations, game design and worldbuilding teaching, award juries and mentoring.
UX, game balance, rational game and level design, content design, worldbuilding, leadership, communication and conflict management.