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KIERA SCHROEDER

Game Designer
503-789-0470

kiera.schroeder@gmail.com
www.kieraschroeder.com

STUDENT PROJECTS

SKILLS

Designer
Jan.-Apr. 2016
Space Station Nova (Unreal Engine) Top-down survival game
(Team of 4)
Designed content and gameplay centered on resource management
Designed and implemented audio and visual feedback
Content Designer
Sept.-Dec. 2015
Crystallite (Custom Engine) Top-down 3D hack and slash game (Team of 15)
Designed enemies and non-combat AI interactions
Scripted enemy AI components in Lua
Designer
July 2014-Apr. 2015
Doodle Dash! (Wii U) Drawing-based party game
(Team of 10)
Designed and prototyped mini-games and rules screens
Created internal documentation for Wii U devkit setup and use

SELECTED STUDENT SOLO PROJECTS


Hide and Seek Simulator (Sept.-Dec. 2015) Raise
(Feb. 2014)
Used Unreal Engines Behavior Trees
Created virtual pet game
to simulate game of hide and seek
prototype using the Zero Engine
Yokaidan Crossroads (Sept.-Dec. 2014) Eggscapades!
(Nov. 2013)
Created 35-page RPG with 25-page
Created multiplayer board game
bestiary based on Japanese folklore
with 4 unique playable characters

GAME DESIGN

GAME ENGINES
Unreal Engine
Unity 3D
DigiPens Zero Engine
SCRIPTING

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

C# (1 year)
Python (1 year)
Actionscript (1 year)
Lua (3 mo.)
Behavior Trees (3 mo.)

TOOLS

Teaching Assistant (Game Design),


Sept. 2014-July 2015, Jan.- Apr. 2016
DigiPen Institute of Technology
Graded and provided feedback on 12 game design assignments weekly

EDUCATION
DigiPen Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Arts in Game Design
University of Oregon (Eugene, OR)
Bachelor of Arts in Japanese
Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan)

Gameplay design
Playtesting & iteration
Narrative design
Systems design
Level design
UI/UX
Analog games

Sept. 2012-Apr. 2016


Sept. 2007-June 2011
Sept. 2009-July 2010

ACCOLADES
Gold Winner (GDC Game Narrative Review Competition)
Feb. 2016
Deans List (DigiPen)
Sept. 2012-Apr. 2015, Jan.-Apr. 2016
Summa Cum Laude (University of Oregon)
June 2011

Autodesk Maya
Adobe Photoshop
Twine
Slack
PaintTool SAI

OTHER
Japanese (conversational)
Writing
Music composition

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