Takeru
TAKERU
game designer
Hi, I'm Takeru, I live in São Paulo, Brazil. I have always loved video games, and my dream is to deliver experiences as memorable as the ones that I had.
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​I graduated in Game Design at Anhembi Morumbi University (2017 - 2021), focusing my studies on game design and programming.
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I have been studying and making games since 2016, and working as a professional game designer since 2019.
Scroll down to see some of my work!
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Rapala Fishing is a fishing mobile game. It was developed for a client while I was at Oktagon Games, working as a game designer.
In this project I designed systems, content, and balance.
Balancing the game was particularly challenging, considering the variety of fish, equipment, and how each stat for the fish and equipment interacted with each other.
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The biggest challenge was visualizing the balance of the game as a whole, considering the amount of content and variables, and the interaction between them.
For this, I created a spreadsheet with a system that scores the parameters of fish compared to the player equipment. This way, I could visualize and define the difficulty of each fish, compared to both all other fish and player equipment. This also saved a lot of time on defining the difficulty progression of the game.
Cobra Kai Game
Role: Game Designer
Platforms: PC (Steam), Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid saga continues, a 3D beat' em up game, based on the Cobra Kai series.
Here, I worked as game designer for Flux Games, in a team with over 60 people.
In this project, my focus was Combat, Systems and Level Deign.
I was responsible for designing and balancing gameplay systems, such as Critical Hit system and a robust Quest system.
I designed, implemented, and balanced all playable characters along with a wide variety of enemies and bosses, using tools developed by the engineering team. My work encompassed everything from attacks, specials, and combat parameters to enemy AI behavior, ensuring a challenging and engaging experience for players, as well as fine tuning visual effects to ensure a good game feel.​
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I worked closely with the engineering, animation, and VFX teams to bring combat and enemy behaviors to life.
Mini Golf Battle Royale
Role: Game Designer
Platform: Android, iOS, Web
Mini Golf Battle Royale is a game where the player competes against 50 players to win the Crown. Players will be eliminated each round, and only one will win the crown.
In this project, I worked for Oktagon games, designing levels for multiple themes, and balancing the game's systems (equipments, stats and game physics) based on data gathered by the analytics team.