Hi, I'm Michael Perce, a passionate and experienced game designer and developer with a strong background in music and immersive experiences. I've had the privilege of working remotely on exciting projects like AVNU: Where Music Meets at Sony Immersive Music Studios, where I contributed to live-service updates, player retention features, and rhythm game design. I enjoy creating interactive and music-themed game content that connects players in new and fun ways. Throughout my career, I've gained hands-on experience with various game engines like Roblox, Unreal Engine, and Unity, and I've worked on everything from escape rooms to alternative controller card games. I'm always eager to take on new challenges and collaborate with talented teams to bring innovative game ideas to life.

Michael Perce

Hi, I'm Michael Perce, a passionate and experienced game designer and developer with a strong background in music and immersive experiences. I've had the privilege of working remotely on exciting projects like AVNU: Where Music Meets at Sony Immersive Music Studios, where I contributed to live-service updates, player retention features, and rhythm game design. I enjoy creating interactive and music-themed game content that connects players in new and fun ways. Throughout my career, I've gained hands-on experience with various game engines like Roblox, Unreal Engine, and Unity, and I've worked on everything from escape rooms to alternative controller card games. I'm always eager to take on new challenges and collaborate with talented teams to bring innovative game ideas to life.

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Hi, I’m Michael Perce, a passionate and experienced game designer and developer with a strong background in music and immersive experiences. I’ve had the privilege of working remotely on exciting projects like AVNU: Where Music Meets at Sony Immersive Music Studios, where I contributed to live-service updates, player retention features, and rhythm game design. I enjoy creating interactive and music-themed game content that connects players in new and fun ways.

Throughout my career, I’ve gained hands-on experience with various game engines like Roblox, Unreal Engine, and Unity, and I’ve worked on everything from escape rooms to alternative controller card games. I’m always eager to take on new challenges and collaborate with talented teams to bring innovative game ideas to life.

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Experience Level

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Expert
Expert
Intermediate
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Intermediate

Work Experience

Technical Game Designer at Sony Immersive Music Studios
June 1, 2021 - March 29, 2025
Worked remotely on AVNU: Where Music Meets, a cross-platform social game on Roblox. Delivered over 20 live-service content updates including collaborations with Sony Music artists reaching over 500k players. Led core rhythm game feature development, including Lua codebase management, creation of over 110 rhythm game maps, and UI/UX scalable design. Developed prototypes for unreleased PS5 music-themed card game resulting in a patent, created branching dialogue system for dynamic updates, and presented escape room music-themed puzzles leading to increased executive responsibilities.
Game Developer at Alghrab
September 1, 2020 - March 31, 2022
Designed and programmed an animatronic fortune-telling crow with C++ for Arduino and C# in Unity. Showcased the project at alt.ctrl.GDC booth in 2022. Directed voice actor recordings for over 200 voice lines.
Game Developer at Team Two Kids
September 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Lead Designer for a 14-person co-op PC game project. Created and iterated levels blockout and event scripting for 6 levels. Maintained the game design document and technical documentation.
Game Development Intern at MATTERvr
June 1, 2019 - September 30, 2019
Programmed an immersive educational VR game on Unity, optimized for Oculus Rift, Go, and GearVR with over 2,000 active users. Optimized performance for Samsung Galaxy S6, led in-house playtests, wrote voice lines, and guided narrative flow.

Education

B.A. at University of Southern California
August 1, 2017 - May 31, 2021

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Industry Experience

Gaming, Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet, Education