Daria

Daria Bidna
Game Designer

Personal Info:
Address
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Phone
[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)
Email
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LinkedIn
Daria Bidna | LinkedIn

Portfolio
2024/06 - present---
Game Economy Designer - Arisen Games

Project - Unannounced project (social casino
RPG / Link Match3 RPG)

Tasks:

●​ Game Balancing & Game Economy Design
(from scratch)
●​ Support for Analytics
●​ Algorithms Design
●​ Monetization

Achievements:
●​ Created whole Analytic system for the
game (logging tables, reports,
requests).
●​ Created game balance from scratch
for a game with a mixture of
mechanics from two genres.
●​ Created the global economy doc, that
shows every single resource flow
from the game where you can change
user stats and predict player
development by day.
2023/09 - 2024/06---
Game Designer - Zimad

Project - Unannounced project (idle game),
Unannounced project (HO game)

Tasks:

●​ Designing project completely from scratch
●​ A/B test design
●​ Creating game design documentation
●​ Designing features of the game
●​ Game Balancing & Game Economy Design
●​ System Design
●​ Implementing features in Unity

Achievements:
●​ My idea for the core mechanics and
setting was chosen to develop the
game.
●​ Created game balance from scratch
for a game with a mixture of
mechanics from two subgenres.
●​ I am the lead designer of the idle
project.

2022/06 - 2023/06---
Game Designer - Gameloft

Project - Idle Siege (idle strategy game)
Приложения в Google Play – Idle Siege:
военный симулятор

Tasks:

●​ Creating game design documentation
●​ Designing features of the game
●​ Game Balancing & Game Economy Design
●​ System Design
●​ Implementing features in Unity
 Achievements:
●​ Made a Battle Pass with a reward selection
mechanic, which increased the ARPPU of
the project and did not cannibalize other
places of spending
●​ Became an employee that other game
designers came to for help in balancing
features
●​ Optimized the document with the economy
for more convenient work with it and made
it adaptable to global changes in the
economy of the game.
●​ Made a Bounty feature with contracts for
characters, which motivated players to buy
more gacha and collect characters
●​ Created a thematic Ukrainian character for
the game from scratch, which took the top
purchases among offers for a month.

2021/02 - 2022/06 ---
Game Designer / Game Economy Designer -
Murka

Project - Ark Slots (social casino game)
ARK Casino - Vegas Slots Game - Apps on
Google Play

●​ Creating game design documentation
●​ Designing features of the game
●​ Managing and balancing LiveOps events
●​ Designing A/B tests with Analytics
Department
●​ Making configs builders in Excel

Achievements:
●​ Introduced the practice of offers with big
discounts, which were initially afraid to
launch, but as a result of the offer, they
began to bring more profit
 ●​ Made design and balance for complex
features with unique mechanics for the
company from scratch (Scatter Tower, Ark
Design, Slotocards)
●​ Led complex features as the only game
designer on the team
●​ Handed over the whole economy to a new
foreign employee in English

2020/09 - 2021/02 ---
Game Analyst/Game Designer - Dream Team
Studio

Project - Matchland, Fun Story, Unreleased
Match-3 project (match-3, Hyper casual)

●​ Created game design documentation
●​ Designed features of the game
●​ Implemented features in the game in Unity
●​ Designed monetization of the game
●​ Mathematical modeling for the game
monetization
●​ Feature balancing
●​ Balanced LiveOps events
●​ Made analytical reports
●​ A/B testing
●​ Created logging tables
●​ Built analytics systems based on existing
systems

Achievements:
●​ I was the only analyst in the entire
company and supported the analytics of 3
projects.
●​ Combined work as an analyst and game
designer on projects.
●​ I calculated the ideal price for the game’s
top offers, which increased the ARPU.

Pet Projects (created during various game jams) - PepperGames -
itch.io.