TYLER TIMLIN

Games Designer, Derbyshire, United Kingdom

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I am Tyler Timlin, an aspiring gameplay designer and researcher studying Gameplay Design and
Production at Staffordshire University. My studies are based around the research and implementation
of psychology in games design. Despite this, I am proficient in programming via Unreal Engine, and
have experience working in video game development teams.
More recently, I have aimed my studies towards player psychology, and games in a group setting and
have used what I have learnt to create multiple engaging games. Whilst my experience has been video
game focused, my projects have shifted to the study and creation of analogue card and board games
for the past few years.

EDUCATION
SEPTEMBER 2019 – MAY 2023
(BSC/BENG) COMPUTER GAMEPLAY DESIGN AND PRODUCTION
STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY

EXPERIENCE
FEBRUARY 2023 – ONGOING
STUDENT DEMONSTRATOR – ADVANCED 3D GAMES ENGINES AND
SCRIPTING
STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY

SKILLS
 Unreal Engine 4/5  User-Experience Focus
 Games Design  Research/Study
 Level Design  Leadership
 Prototyping  Cross-discipline communication
 Playtesting/QA  Mentorship
 Design documentation  Project management
PROJECTS
OCTOBER 2022 – ONGOING
‘DUNGEONS & DOPAMINE’ – SOLO PROJECT
Acting as my Final Year Project (FYP) during my studies for my Gameplay Design & Production
degree, Dungeons and Dopamine is board game built around my studies of player psychology.
Predominantly, analysing the possibility of the positive application of reactance and variable ratio
schedule in analogue games.

OCTOBER 2022 – FEBRUARY 2023

‘TOTALLY NORMAL FARMING GAME’ – LEAD DESIGNER/PROJECT MANAGER
A top-down tower defence game made as part of my studies at Staffordshire University. I acted as
the game’s lead designer and project manager for our cross-discipline team during the development
period over the course of a 3 2-week sprints. My work included mechanic design with a focus on
user-experience and balancing and programming base systems for junior designers to work with.
The project was completed in Unreal Engine 5.

JULY 2021 – JUNE 2022

‘MANIFEST: MULTIVERSAL COMBAT’ – SOLO PROJECT
Manifest is a Trading Card Game (TCG) designed during my studies at Staffordshire University. The
game was designed to act as a casual, 2-6 player game, adverse to the competitive, 2-player TCGs
that dominate the market. Manifest applied knowledge gained through my research into group and
Free-For-All dynamics in analogue games.