Pleasure to meet you! My name's Paul Melio, & I'm a Game Designer and a Design Manager from Chicago with 8 years of experience specializing in combat design, level design, production & management
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I hold a master’s degree in Game Development, founded & ran Strange Creatures Studio, & have successfully released 7 games -5 of which boast over a 90% rating
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During my time managing at The Gang I've had the pleasure of building live ops projects where my work has seen over 250 million sessions
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Always love meeting new people in the industry so absolutely feel free to reach out with any questions at
Pleasure to meet you! My name's Paul Melio, & I'm a Game Designer and a Design Manager from Chicago with 8 years of experience specializing in combat design, level design, production & management
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I hold a master’s degree in Game Development, founded & ran Strange Creatures Studio, & have successfully released 7 games -5 of which boast over a 90% rating
​
During my time managing at The Gang I've had the pleasure of building live ops projects where my work has seen over 250 million sessions
​
Always love meeting new people in the industry so absolutely feel free to reach out with any questions at
Pleasure to meet you! My name's Paul Melio, & I'm a Game Designer and a Design Manager from Chicago with 8 years of experience specializing in combat design, level design, production & management
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I hold a master’s degree in Game Development, founded & ran Strange Creatures Studio, & have successfully released 7 games -5 of which boast over a 90% rating
​
During my time managing at The Gang I've had the pleasure of building live ops projects where my work has seen over 250 million sessions
​
Always love meeting new people in the industry so absolutely feel free to reach out with any questions at
Pleasure to meet you! My name's Paul Melio, & I'm a Game Designer and a Design Manager from Chicago with 8 years of experience specializing in combat design, level design, production & management
​
I hold a master’s degree in Game Development, founded & ran Strange Creatures Studio, & have successfully released 7 games -5 of which boast over a 90% rating
​
During my time managing at The Gang I've had the pleasure of building live ops projects where my work has seen over 250 million sessions
​
Always love meeting new people in the industry so absolutely feel free to reach out with any questions at
​Skills & Software​​
Game Design
Unreal 4 & 5 | Unity | Roblox Studio | Maya | Blender Photoshop | Substance Painter | Blueprints | Lua
Management
JIRA | Slack | Notion | Figjam | Microsoft Teams | Agile Workflow | Confluence | GSuite
Education
Masters Degree in Game Development from
SCAD with Honors
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Raindancer
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Lead Designer - Combat, Content, & World Design​​
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Dark Fantasy Multiplayer ARPG ​
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Directed the hand-painted boss rush, working daily on combat, enemy, and narrative design as well as managing 12 paid QA testers and 4 translators​​
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91% on Steam - 30k copies sold
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Vans World
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Project Lead - Principle Design, World Design​
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Open World LiveOps Multiplayer Skating​​
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Pitched and was project lead for Vans massive multiplayer open world skating game, overseeing level design, 3C, onboarding, reward systems and testing​
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90% likes - 120 million plays
Exiles of Embermark
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Quest Design - Seasonal PvP content ​
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Mobile High Fantasy Turn-Based RPG​​
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Commissioned to create content for a turn-based high fantasy focusing on PvP mechanics and seasonal events, working heavily with the lead & narrative designer ​​
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​4.2 Stars in iOS
​Amazon Joyful Horizons
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Lead Designer - Project Manager - Level Design​​
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Multiplayer Open World 3D Platformer​
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Worked with Amazon marketing team to create an open-world multiplayer 3D platformer with Live Ops. Managed art, design, and programming teams over a four month dev cycle. ​​
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94% likes - 2K Concurrent Players
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Ultimate Football Simulator
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Senior Designer - Economy Designer
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Mobile Football Simulator​​​​
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Pitched and designed gameplay, progression, and monetization for the arcade American football simulator​
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95% likes - 2.5 million players​