Enezio Ferreira dos Santos Filho

About Me

Greetings🤘, my name is Enezio, I’m a game and level designer focused on designing games that challenge players' reasoning, strategy, and deduction skills, rather than their quick reflexes or dexterity.

Experience

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when: 09/2024 → Present

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the creation and development of game levels, ensuring alignment with the game’s vision and player experience.
Coordinate a team of level designers, fostering collaboration with programmers, artists, and narrative designers.
Prototype and test levels, balancing difficulty and flow to optimize engagement.
Develop technical documentation and guidelines to ensure consistency and quality. </aside>

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**Rataiada is an indie game studio focused on the design of thinky games, currently developing "So Fart Away," a puzzle game that surprises by demonstrating how a simple fart can create elegant and challenging puzzles.

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when: 05/2024 → 08/2024

**Key Responsibilities:

Oversee daily operations and ensure team productivity and efficiency.
Provide guidance, support, and mentorship to team members.
Ensure quality standards and deadlines are met.
Facilitate communication between team members and other departments. </aside>

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As a member of the dev team of Tetragon 2, a unique puzzle game set in a mysterious world, I contributed by:

Designing engaging and challenging puzzles.
Designing mechanics that had great synergy with the game's core mechanics.
Writing organized, clear, and useful design documents. </aside>

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**As a member of the dev team of Blocky World, a mobile voxel RPG, I contributed by:

Developing and optimizing gameplay mechanics, such as player movement, player skills, and enemy and boss AI, to ensure a seamless and enjoyable player experience.
Conducting code refactoring to maintain the system's overall health and performance, ensuring that the game ran smoothly.
Designing and programming critical systems like quests, stores, and save systems, utilizing clean and reliable code to enhance the game's functionality and user experience.
Developing custom tools to streamline the development process, thereby increasing efficiency and productivity. </aside>