Joaquín Rossi
Game Designer
Hi there!
Hi there! I'm Joaquin, originally from Uruguay 🇺🇾 and now living in Finland 🇫🇮
You can check out my Thesis on "Dynamic difficulty adjustment in single-player games: Player perception on hidden vs. upfront DDA" here >
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The following is a selection of projects I worked on, enjoy!
Game Designer
Producer
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2D Technical Artist
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Narrative driven mobile game exploring a boy's fears and anxieties seen through family road trips as he battles his own dark imagination.
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Gameplay mechanic: Attack enemies by throwing lights from the passing landscape.
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Co-Founder of Taperas Interactive, financed by the Competitive Funds for Culture (FCC).
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Developed on-and-off as a creative endeavor between 2017 - 2018 (19 months)
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Team size: 4
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Game Design
Consultant
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2D Artist
MedVenture
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Survival mobile game where you help a castaway survive a chaotic journey adrift while crafting and managing resources, and learning about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
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Part of a research study targeting liver transplantees (between 16 and 25 years of age) carried out by the University of Colorado's ACCORDS mHealth & Informatics Core.
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Contract work for Ingenious Softworks.
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Developed during 2019 (5 months)
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Team size: 5
Game Designer
(Systems Design)
Level Designer
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Producer
(Scrum Master)
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Online arcady co-op game where 2 players (Driver + Catcher) collect as many items as possible, avoid getting caught by the Shop-Bots and race the timer to the finishing line!
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In charge of balancing item pricing and distribution.
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Student project developed for the Game Project course at Aalto University under the vision of Noora Heiskanen.
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Developed during 2021 (4 months)
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Team size: 8
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Honorable Mention in Bit1 Game Awards 2021 finals.
Programmer (C#)
Game Designer
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2D/3D Artist
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UI/UX
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Local multiplayer battle arena game (1-4 players) in which you drive bumper cars while shooting potato bazookas through 80's retro-futuristic inspired stages.
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6 playable characters + 4 stages + single player timer mode.
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Student project developed as my final Game Project for my B.A. at ORT University Uruguay.
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Developed during 2016 - 2017 (9 months)
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Team size: 1
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First person puzzle adventure game which puts you in the shoes of a Runner tasked with trapping shadow monsters using a set of ever more complex puzzle ruins.
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Student project developed for the Game Project course at Aalto University after Elina Eskelinen and I pitched the idea and got selected to be one of the games developed.
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Developed during 2020 (2 months)
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Team size: 8
Game Designer
(Puzzles)
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Producer
Game Designer
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Level Designer
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Platformer game following an alien who crash lands on an unknown world where emotions rule everything, learning along the way how to deal with these new feelings.
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Aimed at teaching young kids about Emotional Intelligence.
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Contract work for Sofia Battegazzore's vertical slice demo, funded by MIEM-DINATEL.
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Developed during 2017 (4 months)
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Team size: 5
2D Background Artist
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Level Designer
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Run-&-gun game about government agents taking over a suburb neighborhood and kidnaping cats. Now it's all up to this little girl and her DIY gun to rescue them.
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Winter Jam (Montevideo, Uruguay)
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Developed during 2016 (48hrs)
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Team size: 4
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