Joaquim Moraes - Level Designer

Experience

Level Designer/Project Manager

Fracture (VFS Project) – Unreal 4, 3D arena brawler, Team of 5 -Designed 2D layouts

  • Designed 2D layouts

  • Created a gym to figure out metrics

  • Was in charge of documentation (GDDs and LDDs)

  • Mixed racing track design with arena based level design

  • Communicated with artists to create the environment

  • Set dressed the whole level, and most of the background

  • Created schedule for the whole project

  • Used agile and waterfall mangemet

 

Level Designer/Project Manager

K.A.T (VFS Project) – Unity, 2D Rhythim based platformer, Team of 5

  • Designerd 2D layouts

  • Made levels in engine with Unity’s tilemap

  • Created feature list and project schedule

  • Tested and made multiple itearations on them

  • Designed 3 out of the 4 maps in the game

  • Communicated with composer to combine the musics with the levels

  • Wrote concept document and Game Design Document

 

Level Designer

Spawn of the Night (Student Project) – Flash game, 2D platformer, Team of 6

  • Designerd 2D layouts

  • Implemented them in engine

  • Communicated with programmer and artist, to solidify the metrics

  • Created Sound Effects

  • Wrote Story

 

Esbelt - Junior Achievement Brasil - Winner

3 Months High School Project - Making a product and selling it, in a team of 20

  • Designed a belt made out of bike tires

  • Was in charge of production

  • Highest number of sales from the team

  • Organized marketing for product sale

  • Winner of the Junior Achievement competition for larger number of sales

 

Education

Vancouver Film School (Game Design, 2017 - 2018)

Univesidade Anhembi Morumbi (Game design, 2015 - 2017)

 

Skills

  • Level Layouts

  • Documentation

  • Unreal level editor

  • Whiteboxing

  • Enviromental storytelling

  • C#

  • Visual Scripting

  • Quick prototyping

  • Agile Management

  • Waterfall Management

  • Risk Assesment

  • Communication

  • Team Building

 

 

Passions

  • Video Games

  • Movies and Books (Name of the Wind, My Dinner with Andre)

  • Storytelling

  • Mythology

  • Sports (Soccer and Surfing)

 

 

Software

  • Unreal Engine 4

  • Unity

  • Autodesk Maya

  • Sketchup

  • Photoshop

  • Illustrator

  • Microsoft Office

  • Perforce

  • Pivotal Tracker

  • Trello

  • GitHub

  • Google Drive applications