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Jean-Baptiste Leclercq

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Senior Game Designer with more than a decade of experience. Specialized in AI Design and Systems Design.

About

Senior Game Designer with more than a decade of experience. Specialized in AI Design and Systems Design.

AAA experience (Ubisoft), profficient in Unreal Engine 4 and 5.

  • Joined April 2026

Languages

  • EnglishFluent
  • FrenchFluent

Industry experience

  • Gaming
  • Media & Entertainment

Projects · 2

Part of the team working on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. My responsibilities included Friendly AI
(both design and implementation), Encounters System, Quests System and Barks System. Embedded
in the NPCs team, I also helped on Combat AI and Combat balance.
This project allowed me to work closely with AI and Gameplay Programmers, Voice Designers, Level
Designers, Writers, Gameplay Animators as well as other Game Designers.

(WIP title) Turn-based, dice-rolling game currently developped in Unreal Engine 5.

Work experience· 8 roles

Founder · Moose On the LooseJan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Founded own studio to work on smaller projects as a solo developer. Explored indie development realities, iterated on game ideas, and prototyped The Submarine Project in Unreal Engine 5.

Founder and Solo Dev · Moose on the LooseJan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Founder and sole developper, working on a turn-based game developped in Unreal Engine 5.

Senior Game Designer · Massive EntertainmentFeb 2019 – Apr 2023 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Worked on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Feature owner for NPCs AI, Barks System, Encounters System and Quests System. I worked on those features from design to shipping.

Junior Game Designer · Ubisoft AnnecyMar 2018 – Apr 2018 · 2 mos
Dev Tester · Ubisoft AnnecySep 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos
Development Tester · Ubisoft AnnecySep 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos
French Localization Specialist · Dovetail GamesJun 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos
Freelance Game Designer · NeopicaJun 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos

Education

Licenciate Degree, Game Design/Level Design · Gamagora2011 – 2012
Licenciate Degree, English studies · Victor Segalen University2004 – 2008
Licenciate Degree, Game Design/Level Design · Université Gamagora, Lyon 2, Lyon , France2012 – 2026
Licenciate Degree, Anglo-Saxon Language, Literature and History · Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France2008 – 2026

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