DESIGN CONSULTing
🧠Game Design & Creative Services
Game Design Vision Development - A great game starts with a great vision. I help you hone your game’s identity in a way that can be clearly communicated and your team can rally behind.
Rapid Design Documentation - From concise one-pagers intended for executives to detailed design documents to unblock developers, I provide documents tailored for clarity, alignment, and execution.
UX & UXR Support - The job of UX is to make sure the game you think you are making matches the game the players are perceiving. I bring experience guiding teams through user-centered testing, knowledge of collecting feedback while minimizing biases, and offering actionable UX insights.
Design Audits - Sometimes you know the exact game you want to make. I bring an extra pair of experienced eyes to uncover blind spots, fill gaps, and identify risks. Deep-dive reviews of your systems, loops, and plans help validate the health of your project, regardless of what stage you are in.
🙌🏼Team Development & Mentoring
Building a Design Culture - Your values are the bedrock of team culture. While game visions and pillars guide what you build, culture defines how you build it. Culture-forming can be a difficult and time-consuming endeavor. My experience helps founders and leads create clear cultural stakes that drive behaviors, collaboration habits, team norms, who you hire, and how you make decisions..
Leadership Coaching - Too often, leads are promoted without support or training. This was something I experienced and is a core part of my origin story for becoming such a leadership nerd. I help both leads and individual contributors to communicate intent, expectations, and their needs clearly, enabling better, confident, and decentralized execution.
Mentorship & Skill Development - The ROI on investing in your employees can easily exceed the costs of hiring new talent to fill in skill gaps on a particular team or project. Upskill your employees to increase their work capability, capacity, and reliability. Whether they are early-career designers or seniors advancing to leads, leveling up your team is a key way to achieve these greater results.
📈Product & Business Support
Pitch Coaching & Deck Feedback - Did you know that the most important element to a pitch is emotion? There’s a reason why we have the saying “I’m not feeling it.” Many pitches focus solely on the what while underserving the why, who, and when. My guidance can help shape your pitch into a compelling story that will have publishers or investors wanting more.
Greenlight & Milestone Review - A good milestone delivery instills confidence in your publisher, investors, and team. Come prepared for these meetings knowing the answers to all the questions you’ll be asked ahead of time and surface risks before your stakeholders do.
Live-Ops Design & Product Strategy - Assuming a full-featured live-ops title; if you’ve never shipped one before, my general recommendation is to dedicate HALF of your budget to pursuing it. Even if you have experienced live-ops devs, 25% of your budget is still in the ballpark. If those numbers shock you, you might have some blind spots regarding live-ops. I help teams plan or fix the systems that you’ll need to make your live services successful.