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    Jackie Cao Gameplay Design Resume 1

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    Jackie Cao is a game designer with over 5 years of experience at companies including Bioware, Electronic Arts, and React Games. She has expertise in design, level design, combat design, gameplay design, and software including Unity and Unreal. At her current role at Bioware, she prototypes enemy encounters, balances boss fights, designs quests and levels for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Previously at EA, she conceptualized gameplay for an unannounced mobile CCG and balanced levels and mechanics for Secret Life of Pets Unleashed. She also has experience designing procedurally generated levels, multiplayer modes, and weapon systems from her time at React Games. Jackie holds a Master's degree in Entertainment Arts & Engineering

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    Jackie Cao is a game designer with over 5 years of experience at companies including Bioware, Electronic Arts, and React Games. She has expertise in design, level design, combat design, gameplay design, and software including Unity and Unreal. At her current role at Bioware, she prototypes enemy encounters, balances boss fights, designs quests and levels for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Previously at EA, she conceptualized gameplay for an unannounced mobile CCG and balanced levels and mechanics for Secret Life of Pets Unleashed. She also has experience designing procedurally generated levels, multiplayer modes, and weapon systems from her time at React Games. Jackie holds a Master's degree in Entertainment Arts & Engineering

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    Jackie Cao is a game designer with over 5 years of experience at companies including Bioware, Electronic Arts, and React Games. She has expertise in design, level design, combat design, gameplay design, and software including Unity and Unreal. At her current role at Bioware, she prototypes enemy encounters, balances boss fights, designs quests and levels for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Previously at EA, she conceptualized gameplay for an unannounced mobile CCG and balanced levels and mechanics for Secret Life of Pets Unleashed. She also has experience designing procedurally generated levels, multiplayer modes, and weapon systems from her time at React Games. Jackie holds a Master's degree in Entertainment Arts & Engineering

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    Jackie Cao is a game designer with over 5 years of experience at companies including Bioware, Electronic Arts, and React Games. She has expertise in design, level design, combat design, gameplay design, and software including Unity and Unreal. At her current role at Bioware, she prototypes enemy encounters, balances boss fights, designs quests and levels for Star Wars: The Old Republic. Previously at EA, she conceptualized gameplay for an unannounced mobile CCG and balanced levels and mechanics for Secret Life of Pets Unleashed. She also has experience designing procedurally generated levels, multiplayer modes, and weapon systems from her time at React Games. Jackie holds a Master's degree in Entertainment Arts & Engineering

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    Jackie Cao

    C: (860)-299-5608 [email protected]
    www.jackiecao.weebly.com
    SKILLS
    Design: Encounter Design, Level Design, Combat Design, Gameplay Design
    Software: Unity, Unreal, HeroEngine

    WORK EXPERIENCE http://jackiecao.weebly.com/past-projects.html


    Bioware, Austin, TX May 2017-Present
    Game Designer
    Star Wars: The Old Republic: Star Wars MMORPG
    ● Prototyped, pitched, and developed enemy encounters and boss fights to fit content goals, creating abilities that
    fit the theme of each character
    ● Balanced and tuned enemy encounters and boss fights, utilizing balance sheets, and feedback from team playtests
    ● Designed and scripted quests, dungeons, and levels to provide gameplay objectives that contribute to furthering
    the story and collaborated with multiple disciplines to implement them properly
    ● Assisted the systems design team by using data and metric analysis to help pinpoint the problems and potential
    solutions associated with loot and progression
    ● Contributed to the narrative of the game by writing barks and ambient dialogue for quests and encounters

    Electronic Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah July 2016-January 2017


    Game Designer
    Unannounced Game Title: Mobile CCG
    ● Conceptualized the game pitch and designed the gameplay loops and mechanics
    ● Created cards using spreadsheets with attention to gameplay, narrative, balance, and player experience
    ● Iterated upon initial designs multiple times after rigorous playtesting
    ● Balanced cards, gameplay and mechanics using data and feedback from testing
    Secret Life of Pets Unleashed: Match-three game for mobile
    ● Designed level geometry and puzzles with varying objectives, difficulty, obstacles and board layouts
    ● Wrote specifications for future features and presented them to the team for implementation
    ● Collaborated with the design team to conceptualize with the gameplay, mechanics, and design pillars of the game.
    ● Balanced the difficulty of each level to meet difficulty curve through rigorous test data analysis

    React Games, Midvale, Utah April 2015-April 2016


    Game Designer
    Smite Rivals: Mobile PvP game developed for Hi-Rez incorporating Strategy and CCG elements using the Smite IP
    ● Involved in pre-production where we brainstormed the initial concepts of the game and wrote design documents.
    Teddy Bear Heroes: Match-three game for mobile
    ● Designed and balanced the six unique character power players could choose for each level
    ● Created level geometry, match patterns, spawn patterns, challenges, and power ups for the game
    ● Balanced and tuned each level and power ups so the game could follow a difficulty curve we determined
    Super Dungeon Bros: Dungeon Crawler with multiplayer and co-op for PS4, Xbox One, and PC
    ● Designed and built procedurally generated levels by building the geometry options, enemy encounter options, and
    trap and puzzle options
    ● Prototyped and implemented the multiplayer PvP and horde modes and the levels and balancing that went with it
    ● Created the functionality and theme of all the weapons and the upgrade progression system
    ● Collaborated with the design team to conceptualize with the gameplay, mechanics, and design pillars of the game
    ● Balanced the performance of each weapon, level and system through rigorous playtesting and tuning

    EDUCATION
    University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
    Master of Entertainment Arts & Engineering
    University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
    Bachelor of Science in Business
    Major: Management Minor: Music
    University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
    Faculty of Business

    INTERESTS
    Hiking, Brazillian Jiujitsu, Boxing, Fitness, Board Games, Cosplay, Photography

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