Portfolio
Alexander Mistakidis' portfolio of games and consumer products, along with videos, gifs and detailed writeups.
VALORANT
Senior Technical Game Designer (Gameplay, combat and characters)
Oct 2021 - Mar 2024
VALORANT is a AAA tactical hero shooter.
- Content focused role: Leveraged multi-disciplinary skills to push the frontier of gameplay, combat and characters from pitch to production.
- Led design direction and craft mentorship for our next-gen new player experience for console & PC. Drove stakeholder alignment on execution and ramped up from solo to to dozens of developers over 3 product pods from prototype to production.
- Experienced in pitching, prototyping and validating characters such as Harbor and Deadlock.
- Shipped live service updates such as balancing Brimstone and reworking Jett.
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Element Arena
Fun to watch, mobile-first competitive games.
August 2017 - April 2020
Element Arena was a multiplayer top-down fighting game with collectable heroes.
- Led the raise of $1.2 million dollars from investors including Y Combinator and Riot Games.
- Hired and managed a team of 10 game developers. Game credits here
- Led game design: controls, combat design, monetization and battlepass design, level design with 7 published arenas, experiments with 12+ game modes, tutorial flow design with data-driven iterations
- Directed art style, art feedback, budget and pipeline for the creation of a dozen stylized hero characters and environment art
- Learned from >50 external play tests and 20 test-launched versions of the game to 60,000 players across SEA and North America.
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Gamer Hub
Community focused social tools for live service games.
July 2019 - July 2020
Gamer Hub was a gaming content site that gives players the ability to create tier lists and guides for games they love.
- In 12 months, grew to 4 million page views and 1.5 million visitors using organic SEO and social sharing.
- The development was done by Alex Sohail, and I was the product lead.
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Wisecrack
Play games together instantly with mobile-web group games.
January 2016 - July 2017
- Programmed prototypes to play games together instantly with mobile-web group games.
- Led designs for 3 game concepts, including Wisecrack, an outrageous party game that gives you crazy questions and the creative freedom to say what you want.
- Led market testing and business development. Reached 10,000 users organically and tested multiple markets and games over one year.
- Won the Velocity Fund Pitch Competition $5k and $25k grants
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An example round of Wisecrack: the judge that round picks a prompt to read out, the other players answer, and then the judge picks their favorite.
Select Smaller Game Projects
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Created a ~2h tower defense game for the Gameboy Advance using C++
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Ludum Dare 48 Compo game made in Lua with Pico-8
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2 week game jam project in Unity