Tiger J
Associate Game Designer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTiger J is an Associate Game Designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience crafting engaging player experiences and balancing multiplayer and single-player systems. At Topgolf he has led feature specs, monthly event design, and prototyped new game modes while using data analysis in Excel to tune progression and inform product decisions. He’s designed and balanced kits for 20+ characters and collaborated across production, level design, and product management to ship polished gameplay across 100+ levels. With a background in cross-disciplinary student teams and club leadership from Carnegie Mellon, he pairs formal business training with hands-on design and project management. Notably, he combines creative prototyping with quantitative tuning—turning player feedback and competing-product insights into measurable engagement improvements.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration and Management, General, 3.6 Cumulative, Bachelor’s Degree, Business Administration and Management, General, 3.6 Cumulative at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of BusinessHigh School, 3.89 Unweighted, High School, 3.89 Unweighted at San Mateo High School
Chinese, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Zygnius/pfgd-micropolis
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
Adaptation of the Micropolis Java port for the Programming for Game Designers class
Contributions:10 pushes in 19 days
designersjavamicropolisadaptation
tomassanmiguel/knightnight
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
A game about knights duking it out at the tilts
Contributions:4 PRs, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
knightsgame
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