Dominique Grieshofer
- 7+ years of game design experience
- Released two commercial indie games to overwhelmingly positive reviews
- Experience within gameplay and systems, with deep knowledge in combat and 3C's
- BSc in Media Informatics and Visual Computing
Unannounced Project (2022-Now)
- Senior Game Designer at Ubisoft
- Responsible for 3C's of an unannounced AAA FPS
- Created intended combat and gameplay dynamics
- Designed all classes, abilities, weapons, and oversaw all 3C designs
- Optimized designs for understandability, depth, fantasy, game feel, and more
- Introduced design framework to align team and improve communication
- Spearheaded design culture about growth and feedback
- Presented scientific design workshops
- Planned and prioritized 3C milestones and tasks with production
- Improved global design documentation process
- Collaborated with animation, code and art on 3C implementations
- Tuned 3C's in a proprietary engine and defined gameplay metrics
Off the Grid (2021-22)
- Gameplay Systems Designer at Gunzilla Games
- Worked on combat and 3C's of a competitive AAA 3rd-person shooter
- Created intended combat dynamics
- Designed and helped implement locomotion and abilities
- Ensured all abilities have situational effectiveness, mechanical contrast, counter-, and teamplay
- Redesigned third-person aiming and shooting to better match player expectations
- Optimized design trade-offs for clarity, depth, fantasy, viscerality, and more
- Presented scientific design knowledge and mentored junior game designers
- Prototyped and tuned abilities and 3C's in Unreal Engine and defined gameplay metrics
Unannounced Project (2020-21)
- Game Developer at YAGER
- Worked on encounters and enemies of an unannounced AAA shooter
- Mentored by head of game design culture
Refunktion (2014-15)
- Entirely self-designed/created stealth platformer in Unreal Engine
- Released for free and later evolved into Refunct
UT 2004 Levels (2014)
- Designed three levels in cooperation with pro players, of those one level was made for a 3,000$ tournament