Thomas Duret

Game & Level Designer

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ABOUT ME

Since my childhood, I play and analyse a lot of videos games and felt in love for it. It became my main passion, so I decided to work in symbiosis with it : I became a Game Designer.

My formation in Game Design brought me theorical and practical knowledges in various domains : games analysis, prototyping (videogames, boardgames, cardgames...), document writting (Game Design Document, post-mortems...), teamwork and much more !

Curious and polyvalent, I diversify my skills in those domains, giving the best of myself, to become the most complete, competent and usefull Game Designer.

Hobbies

Video Games

Series / Animes

Sport

E-Sport

Music

PROJECTS

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Tokou Fight Unreal Engine / Group project
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Vikings Unreal Engine / Group project
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Chubby Buddies Unreal Engine / Group project
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Trackmania mapping Personal project
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Roll the Ball Personal project / Unity / Mobile game
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Pokemon Ways Board Game / Group project
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Roberto's Revenge Unity / Group project
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A crack throught space and time Unreal Engine / Personal project
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Prince of Persia (1989) - Game Design Document Analysis / Personal project
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Diordalie Card Game / Group project
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G Quiz Personal project

"Being hard worker is 10 times better than being lazy.

Work smart is 100 times better than that. So let's combine both.

JOURNEY

  • Education

    Scientific Graduation (2015 - 2016)

    Lycée Charlie Chaplin - Décines-Charpieu (69150), France

    BAC S - SVT

  • Formations

    Game Design Formation (2016 - 2019)

    E-Artsup - Lyon 7 (69007), France

    School formation
    I learned here theory and practice about Game Design domain. I made a lot a of projects in team or by myself, using different game engines, tools or external softwares.

    "Piscine" at 42 school (September, 2020)

    42 - Lyon 2 (69002), France

    School formation
    Selection of 1 month where I learned Shell and C programation language. Formation with a philosophy rewarding based on autonomy, rigor, peer learning and hard working.

  • Professional experiences

    QA Tester - RyseUp Studios (June, 2023 → now)

    Lyon 9 (69009), France

    QA Testing on Roboquest: https://www.roboquest.ryseupstudios.com/

    ► First Time User Exeperience (FTUE): Full game experience & general feedbacks
    ► Kanban project management method (Trello): creation of tickets with task progress status
    ► Test sessions: Level Design issues, classes perks & upgrades, weapons functionnalities, enemis & boss patterns, online interactions, menus & HUD... on PC and Xbox

    Lead Game Designer - Kuhlturs (September, 2021 → March, 2023)

    Sarcelles (95200), France

    Lead Game Designer (home office) - Tokou Fight:

    ► Planning / Tasks distribution / Team management
    ► Conceptualization of the game project respecting constraints and stakes
    ► Communication with CEO / CMO / Lead Artist / Expert Blockchain / Token Economist
    ► Presentation of the project to clients, investors or studios
    ► Documents writting : GDD, Pitch Docs, Whitepaper, Technical Docs, Presentation docs...
    ► Balancing, paper prototyping, testing, data analysis (Excel)
    ► Game prototyping on Unreal Engine V
    ► Creation of a communautary Discord server from scratch
    ► Management, moderation, info communication, BOTs insertion, gamification of the server...

    Game Designer (home office) - Lacoste UNDW3:

    ► Analysis & researches on the Lacoste NFTs economy and products
    ► Gamification for the Discord server "UNDW3 Lacoste" (+50k members)
    ► Powerpoint presentation of all the concepts & ideas to the Lacoste team

SKILLS

90%

Unreal Engine 4

  • Blueprint prototyping (Features, Patterns systems, Timelines..)
  • Widgets (HUD / Interface / Menus)
  • Integration (Sound / Graphic assets)
  • Systems (Data Tables / Behavior Trees / Landscapes)
  • Materials / Textures / FXs / Lights
  • Subversionning (SVN Tortoise)
  • Games : Point & Click / Twin Stick Shooter / First Person / Racing game
70%

Unity

  • Blueprint prototyping (Playmaker)
  • HUD / Interface / Menus
  • Source Control
  • Level Design
  • Games : Plateformer, Mobile, Point & Click, Rogue-Lite
70%

Suite Adobe

  • Photoshop : General creations, Retouch/Rework, CV, Mock-Up...
  • Premiere Pro : Video montage
  • Illustrator : Logo creation
80%

Suite Office

  • Word : Game Design Document, Post-Mortem, Art Document
  • Power Point : Presentations, Game
  • Excel : Gantt diagram, Data documents, Production monitoring