Game Designer
Apostolos Zacharopoulos
CURRICULUM VITAE
Working Experience
June 2017 - Present
Game Designer at Parergon Game Studios - Katerini, Greece, Remote
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Game Design
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Documentation
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Prototyping
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UI Design
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Monetization
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Team Management
September 2014 - May 2016
Lead Game Designer at Inertia Game Studios - Ely, UK, Full Time
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Game Designer for Multiple F2P games ranging from Casual Puzzle to MMORPG (Mobile, Facebook) - 5 Projects
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Created and Maintained the Game Design Document
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Level Design
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Balanced Levels through the use of in-house Analytics tools
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Developed Monetization Strategies
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Original UI Design in collaboration with Artists
July 2011 - May 2013
Game Designer / Producer at Aceviral.com - Sunderland, UK, Full Time
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Game Designer for Multiple F2P projects ranging from Casual Action to MMORPG (Mobile, Flash) - 20 Projects
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Level Design
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Oversaw Game Development Team
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Game Balancing and QA Testing
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Monetization
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UI Design in collaboration with Artists
June 2004 – May 2007
Game Designer/Scriptwriter and Marketing Assistant at Track7Games LTD - Athens, Greece, Full Time
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Original Concept and Game Design for the adventure game "Theseis" (PC / XBOX360)
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Story Writing
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Creation of Promotion Material both in English and Greek (Fan Fiction Stories, News)
2007 - 2011
University of Teesside, UK
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BA Computer Games Design (First Class)
Education & Qualifications
Languages
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Greek (Native Speaker)
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English (Fluent)
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Spanish (Intermediate)
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Game Design (Various Genres, specialized in F2P Mobile Games)
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Design Documentation
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Rules & Formulas
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Monetization (specifically F2P)
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Balancing
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World Building
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Writing
Familiar with many aspects of game design and development, including:
Construct 2 / Photoshop / Adobe Flash / GoogleDocs / OpenOffice.org / Excel / Word / Trello / Slack
Key Skills
REFERENCES
BIO
Apostolos Zacharopoulos is a Game Designer living in the UK and specializing in F2P Mobile Games.
Born in Greece a long long time ago, he encountered a Space Invaders clone hidden in the depths of the family PC's hard drive. This led to a broken spacebar in the keyboard and a lifetime fascination with computer games that sprawled out to include board games and Pen and Paper RPGs.
After a brief affair with Engineering, he joined one of the first teams that attempted to produce a AAA game in Greece, as Game Designer. Although “Theseis” was exhibited twice in E3 (2005,2006) to a welcoming crowd, the effort was not completed and he left Greece to properly study Game Design in the UK.
A couple of years latter and with a First Class degree from Teesside University in Computer Games Design, he joined Aceviral and a bustling team of developers where he worked on more than 20 released games for Flash and Mobile, along with a number of other projects. He latter moved to Inertia Games Studios, were he helped develop casual games and worked on an unreleased mmorpg.
He is currently in Parergon, a brilliant casual games company located in Greece where is managing creative direction, mentoring young team members and striving to make the best games Greece has ever seen :)
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