Resume

Key points and shipped games. For my full CV contact me via paul[at]kaloff[dot]dev or on LinkedIn.

Education

Game Development

School for Games S4G
2015 - 2017

Learning and improving game industry specific hard and soft skills, taught by industry veterans. Shipped three student projects.
Erfolgsstory (article in german)

Internship

Level Designer

Taleworlds Entertainment
2017

During the ten week internship, I worked on singleplayer and mutliplayer scenes. Addtionally I was responsible for the documentation of a brand new gamemode.

MAY 2022 -
Present

Level Designer

Unannounced Project / Flying Wild Hog / Remote

Genre: Action Adventure
Platform: PC, Consoles
Teamsize: ~100
Management: Agile
Engine: Unreal Engine 5

Responsibilities:

• Create levels accurately to the holistic vision (narrative and game world)
• Level owner from blockout to shipping (coordination with other teams)
• High level documentation for designs
• Prototyping mechanics and case studies of reference games

JAN 2018 -
May 2022

Level-, Game Designer

Mount & Blade 2 Bannerlord / Taleworlds Entertainment
Ankara / Turkey

Genre: Action, RPG, Strategy
Platform: PC, Consoles
Teamsize: ~100
Management: Agile
Engine: RGL

Responsibilities:

• Designing singeplayer & multiplayer levels for different game modes.
• Working with a finite pool of assets to create new and exciting environments
• Collaborating with artists to create new key assets. Designing single player levels which dynamically can change atmosphere and gameplay, depending on campaign situations.
• Balancing weapons and characters, based on analytics and balancing sheets.
• Taking on responsibility for the combat system design while closely collaborating with animators and gameplay programmers.
  

OCT 2016 -
MAR 2017

Level-, Game Designer (Student)

Beat / School for Games S4G
Berlin, Germany

Genre: Rhythm, Rail-Shooter
Platform: PC
Teamsize: 6
Engine: Unreal Engine 4

Mastering the unique challenge of designing game levels out of music. Collaborating with colleagues on the design and documentation of the game mechanics. Prototyping quickly using Unreal Engines 4 Blueprints.

APR 2016 -
SEP 2016

Level Designer (Student)

Poly Bomb / School for Games S4G
Berlin, Germany

Genre: Action, Arena, Topdown
Platform: PC
Teamsize: 7
Engine: Unity

Building multiple arena levels, based around a game mechanic each. Collaborating with the game designers to utilize and showcase mechanics as most effective and simple as possible. Level Design Documentation.

SEP 2015 -
MAR 2016

Producer (Student)

Archys Adventure / School for Games S4G
Berlin, Germany

Genre: Breakout
Platform: PC
Teamsize: 6
Engine: Unity

General workflow coordination and managing the backlog + burndown chart. Discovering strengths of team members and distributing tasks accordingly. Intermediate support for programming and design tasks.