Atlanta, GA. Open to remote game design and UI/UX roles

Aaron
Captain

Game designer

Systems, content and tabletop design. I prototype in Unity and C#, and tune balance with playtests and simulations.

Play Guild of Old Magick Resume (PDF)

Play it nowGuild of Old MagickA free async spell-book auto battler. Designed, built and balanced solo.

534spells

200augments

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Game design is how my brain works

It's my career goal, and it's also how I spend my free time: every day I'm in an engine, studying a system, or testing a mechanic.

I take apart the mechanics that make games click, then prototype my own versions in Unity and C# so I can judge how a mechanic feels in play, not only how it reads on paper.

Four years of QA automation taught me to hunt edge cases. I bring that to game balance now: playtesting tells me how a game feels, and in Guild of Old Magick a bot-vs-bot simulator runs thousands of matches looking for the broken synergies no one has time to find by hand.

I've designed for screens, tabletops and a live game show. Across all three, the same things hold up: clear choices, real consequences, and a reason to play again.

Prototype first: Ideas are cheap. I build playable versions fast and learn from real play.
Systems thinker: A small change should ripple through connected mechanics in a way players can feel.
Test obsessed: Simulations find the outliers. Playtests tell me how it feels.
Cross-format: Digital games, board games and a live show.

Experience

Game design

2024 – Present
Guild of Old Magick
Game Designer & Developer
- Designing a free async spell-book auto battler solo: systems, balance, progression, interface and all of its documentation.
- Designed over 750 spells, augments and enchantments for players to combine into builds, plus 16 PvE encounters.
- Built a simulator where easy, medium and hard computer players play thousands of full runs to catch broken synergies before players do.
2020 – Present
Self-directed
Independent Game Designer & Prototyper
- Built Project Blue Whale, a Suika-style physics merge game with custom merge logic and scoring, in Unity.
- Take apart existing games to see why their systems work, then prototype new designs from platform fighters to roguelikes.
- Make the videos, shorts and thumbnails for my own games.
Jun 2016 – May 2022
Rotunda Games
Tabletop & Game-Show Designer
- Designed and playtested tabletop games across strategy, party and card genres, including Rotunda: The Board Game.
- Turned the board game into a game-show format, and handled its set design and video production.

Other work

2025 – Present
DataAnnotation
AI Training Specialist
- Review chatbot and LLM responses for accuracy, clarity and tone, and write the corrections, ratings and feedback that improve them.
2020 – 2024
Gettop
QA Automation Engineer
- Built and maintained automated test suites in Python and Selenium, aimed at boundary conditions, edge cases and failure states.
- Learned to spot the small breaks that quietly ruin an experience: unintended shortcuts, dead ends and broken logic.