Charles Gruss Game Design

• Defined the game vision alongside the creative direction team
• Defined high-level design intentions for key features

• Mentored designers to support their growth
• Provided feedback and validated designs to ensure alignment with the vision and budget constraints
• Partnered with Production to prioritize the feature development backlog and maintain team focus
• Collaborated with Art, Tech, and Narrative teams to deliver high-quality cross-disciplinary features

• Defined combat pillars and philosophy in collaboration with the creative direction
• Designed character abilities and oversaw enemy design, ensuring a cohesive and challenging combat experience
• Designed the full combat system, including a context-sensitive target-snapping mechanic improving combat readability and responsiveness

3Cs

• Designed a context-driven input management system, dynamically resolving character actions based on player input and game state to maximize responsiveness
• Improved camera movement and collision handling in collaboration with the Tech Director
• Collaborated with the art team to ensure animation are tight and VFX legible
• Tweaked character movement parameters to ensure a smooth and responsive gameplay

• Designed player’s level up system and built the Excel file for balancing the XP dropped by enemies and the XP required to level up
• Designed the character perks system allowing the player to create character builds
• Designed the UX of the perks system (wireframes + UI animations)