Jalaj SHUKLA​​​​

Jalaj Shukla

Game & Level Designer

Mobile: +918007399737

er.jalajshukla@gmail.com

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Work on thrilling projects and gather experience to sharpen my skills.

Protect passion in the video game industry

DSK SUPINFOGAME

2012/2014 | Master degree in game Design and Production Management

Advance Institute of Engineering and Management, Mumbai, India

 2007-2011 | Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

• Proven able to reach and exceed expectations at every stage of the production

• Secured the THIRD position in the district level swimming contest in school.

• Played badminton at university level 2nd runner up.

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January 2016 - Current | Associate Game Designer at "Moonfrog Labs"

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• Callbreak Gold

  •  Prototyping new mechanics for engaging gameplay.

  •  Conducted rigorous Playtests to determine the best gameplay for Target Audience.

  •  Balancing timing and gameplay to get huge potential for monetization and engagement.

  •  Designed the Level Up Curve for a more balanced experience over levels in the game.

  •  Designed the economy for the game with the Senior Game Designer.

  •  Maintaining Sound Pipeline for the game and the assets to be plugged into the game engine.

  •  Made key animations and Integrated the Art and Sound in the game.

• Ludo Club - Fun Dice Game (+1 Million downloads - GPlay)

  • Online multiplayer version of one of the oldest and most popular strategy board games in India, Ludo also know as Pachisi.

• Contributions

  •  Designed bot logic for the game.

  •  Conducted rigorous playtests to determine the best gameplay for Target Audience.

  •  Designed the virality features for the game. 

  •  Maintaining Art Pipeline for inventory assets to be plugged into the game engine.

• Unannounced CCG Project 

  •  Help Design gameplay and mechanics for a hardcore game. 

  •  Documented mechanics during Pre-Production with the Lead Game Designer. 

  •  Conducted rigorous playtests to determine the best gameplay for Target Audience.

  •  Worked with the Programming team during Production to implement and fine tune mechanics according to design. 

  •  Was closely involved in making economy and High-Level Game Design goals for the game with the Lead Game Designer.

  •  Worked with the Programming team to setup and implement a new FTUE system.

  •  Help Design 2 months worth of content using the custom tools in one week.

  •  Helped Design League system to drive PvP mode for long term retention.

  •  Balancing and polishing changes implemented with the Art and Programming teams.

  •  Made key animations and Integrated the Art and Sound in the game, with high regards to optimization.

  •  Maintaining Sound Pipeline for the whole game and assets to be plugged into the game engine.

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August 2014 - November 2016 | Game and Level Designer at "DSK Green Ice Games"

• Forsaken Mountain

  • Joined the project when the production phase began.

  • Mechanics’ concept and prototyping

  • Responsible of A.I design and designing levels

    • Design of the level​

    • Placement and behavior scripting of the AI

    • Design and creation of in game Matinee.

    • Creation of blueprint items and level blueprint scripting. 

• D.G.U. - Death God University 

  • Part of the core team since the proof of concept​

  • General design

    • Involved in most design decisions as part of the design team

  • Scripting

    • Most level scripting and AI behaviour scripting

    • Design of Minigames and puzzles 

  • Animation graph for NPCs

  • Ingame Matinee and Sound design for them  

  • Tons of smaller features

• Extremely at ease with Game Engines:

  • Have already worked with the most engines Unreal Engine 4, UDK, Unity and Cocos. After discovering a new tool or engine, quickly becomes a technical reference on the matter.

  • Love to work with visual scripting.

• Constantly thriving and striving for personal improvement:

  • Interested in every aspect of the production, from design to management. Looking for a way to refine my skills as much as possible to achieve my long term objectives.

• Game Design.

  • Level Pacing ​

  • Game analysis.

  • Game Genre Analysis​

  • Concept Mapping​.

• Dynamic system.

  • Knowledge of AGILE methods, Poker Planning.

  • Designed a Level for Warcraft, in the Level Editor.

  • Comfortable with operating systems-Windows XP, 7,8 &10.

  • Knowledge of Professional Software‘s like MS office - Word, Power-point, Excel.

  • Have completed a certified course in C++, C# from NIIT.

  • Efficient in Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro 5.5, Adobe Illustrator.

• Hindi: Mother Tongue

  • Regional Languages​

    • Punjabi: fluent​

    • Marathi: Basic

• English: fluent

• Making games!​

• Fond of Science and technology

• Sports – Swimming (3rd place District level), Badminton (2nd University level)

  Football (School team) and Horse Riding

• Love to travel & play games (some favorites - MGS-series, LoL & most action adventure platformers)

• Learned – Guitar, Kickboxing and Dance

• Fascinated by human psychology

• Keen to learn new things about anything I can