Юлія

Yuliia Sokolenko

Date of birth: 15 jun. 1993
Region: Dnipro
Phone number: [open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)

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Career objective - Game Designer /Narrative Designer

Work experience

Game designer freelance (01.03.2022- till now)
My projects: https://apkpure.com/ru/frozent/com.EZGames.Frozent/download ,
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.DenysKorniienko.Hitthemall , https://nauchniki.ru/
(use vpn).

Game Designer (Part-time), Indie Project "Curse of the Night" (04.01.2024- till now)
Working within a collaborative team on the "Curse of the Night" project, I assume a key role in game
design and mechanics development. My responsibilities include adapting to evolving project needs and
efficiently managing tasks as they arise. My contribution has been pivotal in enhancing gameplay and
player engagement, demonstrating my ability to work effectively in a sizable and dynamic team
environment.

Game designer, narrative designer at Hyper Factory (02.03.2021 - 01.03.2022)
Tasks:

● Working with documents (drawing up technical specifications),
● supervising a project,
● working with a scriptwriter,
● processing a script into tasks for programmers and an artist,
● decomposing games.

Work on platformers for children of preschool and primary school age. Platformers with quests based
on educational materials of the school program so that children could check knowledge in the form of a
game.

Participation in Game Jam

Winner of Game Jam Dnepr (with participation in Global Game Jam) (31.01.2020-2.02.2020)
Tasks performed:
● assistance in the development of the gameplay of the game,
● providing a narrative component: script, music and sound accompaniment,
● presentation of the game.
Results: 1st place in Dnipro, 8th place in Ukraine, best mobile game in Ukraine (separate nomination).
(video games: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14S2AL86wAUuGsByBQyMLVY-aZp90o22x/view)

Online hackathon for VR games (08.05.2020-10.05.2020)
Tasks performed:
● development of gameplay,
● provision of a narrative component: script, music and sound accompaniment.
Result: A prototype of the Sky Patrol flight simulator VR game was created.

Online Hyper Casual Game Jam (19.06.2020-22.06.2020)
Tasks performed:
● development of gameplay,
● provision of a narrative component: musical and sound accompaniment.
Result: A prototype of a hyper-casual game for mobile platforms on the theme “Creative destruction”
was created. Released game on the Apkpure:
https://apkpure.com/ru/frozent/com.EZGames.Frozent/download

DTF Game Jam online hackathon (18.07.2020-20.07.2020)
Tasks performed:
● development of gameplay,
● provision of a narrative component: script, music and sound accompaniment.
Result: A prototype of a hyper-casual game for mobile platforms on the theme "Run in 60 seconds" was
created.
(video games:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1E6fE_o7UQLuaniPH-Wn_MAz1t_mfdpqX)

Online Genesis Game Jam (11.12.2020-13.12.2020)
Tasks performed:
● development of gameplay,
● providing narrative design.
Result: A prototype of the game for mobile platforms on the theme "The passage of time" was created.
(video games: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/11zKtw9ujSes4zRdDTTQ-GSjTFb4fSJF_)

Online Game Jam Nation (04.01.2021-31.01.2021)
Tasks performed:
● gameplay development,
● level design, music and sound accompaniment.
Result: A prototype of a hyper-casual game for mobile platforms was created. Game released on Play
Market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.DenysKorniienko.Hitthemall

Genesis Game Jam (11.12.2021-12.12.2021)
Tasks performed:
● development of gameplay,
● provision of a narrative component: script, music and sound accompaniment.
Result: Our team took the 3rd prize, a prototype of the VR game simulator of the ship "Nebuchadnezzar"
from the movie The Matrix was created (video games:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11vMvaDCnNssnC2nWrxKKFSIqRQQyTdFb/view?usp=sharing ).
Special Skills
Communication. Analytical thinking. Solution development. Journalism. Script work. English at level B1.

Little experience: sql, html.

Education
Online courses "Game Design" from ProGameDev.net 2024(Diploma:
https://progamedev.net/wp-content/cert/R9cP7jS1B5Y2N3T8G4vW6X0L.pdf)
Advanced Game Design

Dnepropetrovsk Alfred Nobel University 2014 - 2015 (Dnipro, Ukraine), International Economics Master

Film and television studio courses, 2014
Experience with screenwriting, journalism, advertising

Shag Academy (Dnipro), 2019
Java language

Online courses "Game Design" from devtodev, 2019 (Diploma:
https://www.devtodev.com/education/online-course/certificate/lZ8a0al_slW_paeyOGb78A/)
Game Design

Online courses "Introduction to Game Dev" by devtodev, 2020 (Diploma:
https://www.devtodev.com/education/online-course/certificate/hI0a0al_slW4paOxPWf18g/)
Introduction to game development

Online courses "Hyper casual games" by devtodev, 2020 (Diploma:
https://www.devtodev.com/education/online-course/certificate/mpga0al_slW5paO1PG3x9A/)
Hyper-casual games

Online courses "Liveops in games" by devtodev, 2020 (Diploma:
https://www.devtodev.com/education/online-course/certificate/npQa0al_slW7paCwO2718w/)
Live ops in games

Online courses "Narrative Design" by Narratorica 2022
(The ending 21.01.2022)

Additionally
Independently developed the chess game (Java, Java Script) project in GitHub: github.com/JulSokol.
I use the mythology of different peoples to deepen the game stories and game setting. When
appropriate for the context of the game, I add humor to the plot.