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Hey! I'm a professional game designer with about 6 years of experience. I am technical, resourceful, and creative. I have worked on projects with both large and small teams / budgets and have largely focused on building immersive, engaging systems and content. I have experienced working on titles through every phase of development, including live operations. I began my career creating board games and love to paper prototype my digital work as well.…Hey! I'm a professional game designer with about 6 years of experience. I am technical, resourceful, and creative. I have worked on projects with both large and small teams / budgets and have largely focused on building immersive, engaging systems and content. I have experienced working on titles through every phase of development, including live operations. I began my career creating board games and love to paper prototype my digital work as well.

John C. Myres

Game Designer, Designer, Creative Director, +1

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Hey! I'm a professional game designer with about 6 years of experience. I am technical, resourceful, and creative. I have worked on projects with both large and small teams / budgets and have largely focused on building immersive, engaging systems and content. I have experienced working on titles through every phase of development, including live operations. I began my career creating board games and love to paper prototype my digital work as well.…Hey! I'm a professional game designer with about 6 years of experience. I am technical, resourceful, and creative. I have worked on projects with both large and small teams / budgets and have largely focused on building immersive, engaging systems and content. I have experienced working on titles through every phase of development, including live operations. I began my career creating board games and love to paper prototype my digital work as well.

Available to hire

Hey! I’m a professional game designer with about 6 years of experience. I am technical, resourceful, and creative. I have worked on projects with both large and small teams / budgets and have largely focused on building immersive, engaging systems and content. I have experienced working on titles through every phase of development, including live operations. I began my career creating board games and love to paper prototype my digital work as well.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Beginner

Language

English

Fluent

Japanese

Beginner

Work Experience

Team Lead at Indie Games Startup LLC

September 1, 2024 - Present

Led and mentored a development team on Project Axol; coordinated team events, morale, and communication; served as design director and core project vision holder.

Live Operations Technical Designer at Mythical Games

February 1, 2025 - October 1, 2025

Managed live data for monthly and weekly programs; designed new spreadsheet tools for efficiency; collaborated with product, art, and engineering to solve content challenges.

Game Designer at Core Loop Games

August 1, 2022 - September 1, 2023

Created, implemented, and tuned designs for heroes, bosses, maps, tutorials, and quests; led kickoff meetings for new game modes; tuned combat and progression.

Technical Game Designer at Machine Zone

July 1, 2021 - July 1, 2022

Defined and documented design concepts; feature owner for world combat and strategy content; streamlined designer tools workflow.

Associate Game Designer at Machine Zone

December 1, 2019 - June 1, 2021

Developed live content including units, research trees, and heroes; mentored new team members and created enabling tools.

Systems Design Intern at Gazillion Entertainment

May 1, 2017 - August 1, 2017

Designed, prototyped, and tuned abilities, animations, and attributes for playable heroes; implemented a new character within six weeks.