Senior Technical Game Designer
Combat that feels right in the hands. Timing, weight and impact, tuned hit by hit in Unreal.
Riftveil, in engine
Also built and shippedLive
A home for games and indie tech made in Georgia: a directory in Georgian and English where creators post their own news and teams run playtests.
Introduction
I design and build combat systems in Unreal Engine. Enemies, bosses, ability kits, and the frame level timing that decides whether a fight feels good or feels like nothing.
Right now I am at Flying Wild Hog on Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, owning enemy and boss work from concept through to functional. Before that, combat design on TearFallen at Chillchat, and systems work across mobile RPGs and shooters. I also teach game design at the University of Georgia, which keeps my explanations honest.
Most of the work below comes with the documentation behind it, because how I write a system down is most of how I design it.
Currently
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
Senior Technical Game Designer, Flying Wild Hog
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Selected work · 8 projects
Combat, abilities, weapons and economy work across shooter, action RPG and mobile. Each project links straight to the design documentation behind it.
Flying Wild Hog for Crystal Dynamics and Amazon Game Studios/ Unreal Engine 5/ Enemy & boss design/ 2025 to now
Senior Technical Game Designer
Chillchat/ Rogue-like RPG/ 2024 to 2025
Technical game design, system design documents (with mockups)
Open the project: 10 clips and every document
Co-op action RPG/ Unreal Engine/ 2023 to now
Combat design and game design document
A co-op action RPG built around combat feel. Every player carries two move sets, one from a weapon and one from a school of magic, and swaps between them.
Built RASF, a real-time adaptive scaling framework that reads player performance mid-encounter and adjusts enemy aggression and pacing rather than stat multipliers behind a difficulty menu.
Open the project: 4 clips and 6 documents
Unreal Engine/ Blueprints/ Playable prototype
Character prototype & design
A full ability kit designed and built in blueprints, from the design intent through to a playable, testable character in engine.
More work
Solo developed stealth and management sim, publisher signed. Coming to Steam
Meta game design on a competitive hero shooter: progression, rewards and economy
Contract work. 40-bullet recoil patterns at real Unreal scale, balanced across the weapon set
Mobile management concept, full pitch deck
Experience · 7 years
Senior Technical Game Designer, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis
Senior Game Designer, TearFallen
Senior Technical Game Designer, unannounced adventure title
Senior Game Designer, Heroes of Arena, Arena Master, Arcane Merge
Technical Game Designer, Unreal Engine programming, mods and mentorship
Design lab · 21 documents
Where the systems get worked out: the written documentation behind the projects, from combat flows to technical design and balance.
Documents
General game design and analysis
Feature proposals and teardowns of shipped games, written the way I write for a team: the problem, the intent, and the mechanism that delivers it.
Events, teaching & personal achievements
Pitched Riftveil, the first Georgian studio to present at the conference. Kraków
University of Georgia, Tbilisi. Also game design instructor at Ilia State University
Founded it, and taught game development free of charge to more than 200 students over three years
Game design and development masterclass, Georgian Game Development Conference
Produced for a previous employer
Winner out of 40 teams
Pitching competition
Attended, Kraków
Casino game design · 3 playable pitches
Feature pitches built for casino studios, each playable, with the RTP stated on the card.
Contact
Open to Senior Technical Game Designer and Game Designer roles.
