Joaquín Rossi

Game Designer

Hi there!

I'm Joaquín, a Game Designer and aspiring Project Manager from Uruguay, currently studying and living in Helsinki (Finland)

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I've had the pleasure of working with many talented Artists, Musicians and Programmers during my almost 3 years of

experience in small scale game development.

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The following is a selection of projects I've worked on

Project Management

(Scrum Master)

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Co-Game Designer

Level Designer

• Online arcady co-op game where 2 players (Driver + Catcher) collect as many items as possible, avoiding the Shop-Bots and race the timer to the finishing line!
   

• Student project being developed for the Game Project course at Aalto University under the vision of Noora Heiskanen.
   

• Started development in 2021 (+4 months)
   

• Team size: 8
   

• Honorable Mention in Bit1 Game Awards 2021.

Creative Director

Producer

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Game Designer

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2D Technical Artist

• Narrative driven mobile game exploring a boy's fears and anxieties seen through family road trips as he battles his own dark imagination.
   

• Gameplay mechanic of attacking enemies by throwing lights from the passing landscape.
   

• Co-Founder of Taperas Interactive, financed by the Competitive Funds for Culture (FCC).
   

• Developed on-and-off as a creative endeavor between 2017 - 2018 (19 months)
   

• Team size: 4

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2D Artist

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Game Design

Consultant

 MedVenture 

• Survival mobile game where you help a castaway survive a chaotic journey adrift while keeping your pill taking routine on track by playing through Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
   

• Part of a research study targeting liver transplantees (between 16 and 25 years of age) carried out by the University of Colorado's ACCORDS mHealth & Informatics Core.
   

• Contract work for Ingenious Softworks.
   

• Developed during 2019 (5 months)
   

• Team size: 5

Programmer (C#)

Game Designer

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Level Designer

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2D/3D Artist

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UI/UX

• Local multiplayer battle arena game (1-4 players) in which you drive bumper cars while shooting potato bazookas through 80's retro-futuristic inspired stages.
   

• 6 playable characters + 4 stages + single player timer mode.
   

• Student project developed as my final Game Project for my B.A. at ORT University Uruguay.
   

• Developed during 2016 - 2017 (9 months)
   

• Team size: 1

• First person puzzle adventure game which puts you in the shoes of a Runner tasked with trapping shadow monsters using a set of ever more complex puzzle ruins.
   

• Student project developed for the Game Project course at Aalto University after Elina Eskelinen and I pitched the idea and got selected to be one of the games developed.
   

• Developed during 2020 (2 months)
   

• Team size: 8

Co-Creative Director

Project Manager

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Game Designer

(Puzzles)

Game Designer

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Level Designer

• Platformer game following an alien who crash lands on an unknown world where emotions rule everything, learning along the way how to deal with these new feelings.
   

• Aimed at teaching young kids about Emotional Intelligence.
   

• Contract work for Sofia Battegazzore's vertical slice demo, funded by MIEM-DINATEL.
   

• Developed during 2017 (4 months)
   

• Team size: 5

2D Environment Artist

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Level Designer

• Run-&-gun game about government agents taking over a suburb neighborhood and kidnaping cats. Now it's all up to this little girl and her DIY gun to rescue them.
   

• Winter Jam (Montevideo, Uruguay)
   

• Developed during 2016 (48hrs)
   

• Team size: 4

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