Experience

Green Panda Games

• France
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Game Designer

  • Jun 2021 - Present



home & coffee places

• Paris Area, France

• Indie game developer - Available for new missions

  • Jan 2015 - Present

  Developping new applications for the mobile game industry. Check out my personal projects! https://apps.apple.com/kh/developer/yvan-taurines/id952279824 https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Yvan+Taurines Developping new applications for the mobile game industry. Check out my personal projects! https://apps.apple.com/kh/developer/yvan-taurines/id952279824 https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Yvan+Taurines



Iron Games

• Paris, Île-de-France, France

• Creative Director

  • Feb 2020 - Dec 2020

  Concept, gameplay, LD, UX/UI, art, animation, integration in Unity and publishing of hyper casual games. See some video samples there: http://yvant.net/hypercasual-games/ Concept, gameplay, LD, UX/UI, art, animation, integration in Unity and publishing of hyper casual games. See some video samples there: http://yvant.net/hypercasual-games/



Ooblada

• France
• Computer Games

• Senior Game Designer

  • Jul 2019 - Feb 2020

  Crimo - Project management - New tutorial, leading to better retention rates - Added 4 boosters, global UX design, leading to better LTV - New premium subscription based mode, with multiple placements - Ingame rewarded video placements - Global UX/UI flow modifications - Unannounced game features and game modes, storywriting Other games - Game balancing - UX/UI flow - Gameplay features Crimo - Project management - New tutorial, leading to better retention rates - Added 4 boosters, global UX design, leading to better LTV - New premium subscription based mode, with multiple placements - Ingame rewarded video placements - Global UX/UI flow modifications - Unannounced game features and game modes, storywriting Other games - Game balancing - UX/UI flow - Gameplay features



Webedia/Scimob

• Paris Area, France

• Creative Director

  • Feb 2017 - Oct 2018

  Mobile game concepts, main guidelines, new features and monetization Mobile game concepts, main guidelines, new features and monetization



Aldebaran Robotics - Softbank Group

• Paris Area, France

• Studio Designer

  • Jan 2016 - Feb 2017



Acute Games

• France
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead / Senior Game Designer

  • Mar 2014 - Dec 2014

  Global - Team management - Gameplay guidelines - UX design guidelines - Task management - Recruitment for the design/AS3 dev teams - Development of tools for projections/estimations - KPI analysis Urban Rivals - V1: Game modes, RLD, game balance, economics features, economics balance - V2: Game economic model, global UX/UI design, RLD Fantasy Rivals - Game economics balance - UX/UI design - Concepts for new game modes - Concepts for new economics models Other works - UX/UI design for a mobile application - Social game mode - Economics design Show less



Manzalab

• France
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Game Design Director

  • Sep 2013 - Feb 2014

  Multiple projects- Calls for tenders- High concepts- Team management- Task management- Gameplay guidelines- Gameflow guidelines- Customer show- Graphics guidelines- UX design guidelines- Worklow guidelines / agile management

• Lead / Senior Game Designer

  • Mar 2013 - Sep 2013

  Multiple projects - Calls for tenders - High concepts - Game Design team management - Gameplay definition - Gameflow guidelines - Customer show - Graphics guidelines - UX design



Self Employed

• Paris Area, France

• Freelance Game Designer

  • Mar 2012 - Mar 2013

  Everything, from the game concept, AIR mobile development, level design to the game art. ** Jump Blast is out! ** https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.air.jumpBlast and other projects not yet available on the market. Contact me for your projects! Everything, from the game concept, AIR mobile development, level design to the game art. ** Jump Blast is out! ** https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.air.jumpBlast and other projects not yet available on the market. Contact me for your projects!



Magic Pockets

• France
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Game Designer

  • Oct 2011 - Feb 2012

  Battleship - design team management - gameplay definition on the adaptation of the movie Battleship for the DS, 3DS and Wii - fighting rules, movement rules, units list, balancing, tutorials, interface... - level design guidelines & monitoring - general debugging - creation of a tool to help level building, designing & testing Battleship - design team management - gameplay definition on the adaptation of the movie Battleship for the DS, 3DS and Wii - fighting rules, movement rules, units list, balancing, tutorials, interface... - level design guidelines & monitoring - general debugging - creation of a tool to help level building, designing & testing



Pix Builders

• Computer Games

• Co founder

  • Jun 2010 - Aug 2011

  Waku Waku Blitz! High concept for a Facebook social game. Concept, game design, marketing & social features, graphics & interface, AS3 development. Game is offline, check out a video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHzNLqKh04s Waku Waku Blitz! High concept for a Facebook social game. Concept, game design, marketing & social features, graphics & interface, AS3 development. Game is offline, check out a video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHzNLqKh04s



F4

• Paris Area, France

• Game Designer

  • 2008 - Mar 2010

  Empire of Sports - Gameplay definition of the soccer game - Refactoring of the basketball game according to the soccer - In charge of the trick tree refactoring (interface, contents, level requirement, prototyping...) - In charge of the achievements (interface, contents, triggers...) - Game tutorials - In game help system - Mission designer - Closely following the Sound design - Closely following the QA team World of horses (working title) - Interface design - Closely following the Sound design - Closely following the flex development team Flash trainer for the Game Design team Show less



Couleur Citron

• Flash Designer

  • Sep 2006 - Sep 2007

  Work as a freelance Flash designer Work as a freelance Flash designer



SUDE Communication

• Graphic Designer

  • Mar 2005 - Jul 2005

  - Graphic designer (Web & print) - Multimedia developer (Macromedia Flash) - Worked under Mac OS and Windows environments - Graphic designer (Web & print) - Multimedia developer (Macromedia Flash) - Worked under Mac OS and Windows environments



Galaxy Train

• Toulouse Area, France

• Game developer/designer

  • 2002 - 2005

  Project Charivari de Chat Malo - Game development in ActionScript - Flash animation - Game Design - Level Design Project Charivari de Chat Malo - Game development in ActionScript - Flash animation - Game Design - Level Design