Kirill Sablin

Project: Warface; Platform: PC, Xbox, PS, Switch; Genre: FPS

Responsibilities:

• In association with Producer team, creating a yearly feature and content release plans to improve project metrics.
• Reviewing, controlling and distributing tasks within GD Department.
• Providing feedback on designs and sharing project vision for team of 9 game designers.
• Conducting monthly 1-1 interviews and yearly Performance Reviews.
• Mentoring newly hired and junior GDs, helping with onboarding (workflows and departmental policies).

Achievements:

• Consistently achieved project KPIs each quarter, surpassing monetization targets within forecasted budget and transforming project NPS from negative to positive.

Project: Warface; Platform: PC, Xbox, PS, Switch; Genre: FPS

Responsibilities:

• Designed new weapons and armor, including prototyping, balancing, playtesting, and collaborating with the Art team, among others.
• Worked on level-design and created new maps.
• Designed and controlled the development of meta features, such as Modifications for weapons (Perks) and Event System.

Achievements:

• Successfully delivered more than 20 different weapons to players.
• Implemented the Perks and Event System, resulting in a more than 20% increase in in-game monetization metrics.

Project: War Strike: Gunship Assault; Platform: Mobile (iOS and Android); Genre: Top-Down Shooter with Battler Mechanics

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 2 Game Designers, overseeing task distribution, providing feedback, reviewing designs, conducting 1-1 interviews.
• Designed over 25 units, ensuring balanced gameplay, creating visual references, and defining combat abilities.
• Played a key role in designing core game features, including the combat system, tasks system, offers system, and building system, hangar UI.

Achievements:

• Successfully led the soft-launch of the project, driving early user engagement and feedback.
• Increased Day 1/ Day 7 retention by 20% through the implementation of the tasks system.
• Improved ROI by 10% and paying share by 30% with the implementation of an in-game offers system.

Project: Projex X (Unannounced); Genre: Top-Down Shooter; Platform: Mobile (iOS and Android)

Responsibilities:

• Led the design and implementation of core-gameplay features, including character controls, aiming, shooting mechanics, new classes, abilities, weapons, armor sets, and maps.
• Developed meta-features such as character rank progression, a league rating system, and a quest system.
• Managed an extensive playtesting initiative involving 70+ participants within the team and company.

Achievements:

• Led the development of a distinctive and captivating top-down shooter gameplay.
• Successfully transitioned the project from the prototype stage to a stable version, culminating in a polished soft launch phase.

Project: Gods of Boom (ex. Guns of Boom); Genre: FPS; Platform: Mobile (iOS and Android)

Responsibilities:

• Designed and refined gameplay features, including aim-assist, shooting mechanics, character movement, and more.
• Designed over 50 types of weapons and special character abilities.
• Developed the BattleHUD and meta UI.
• Contributed to level design for new maps and designed new game modes.
• Led the Game Design Department, successfully managing and guiding a team of 6 professionals.

Achievements:

• Successfully launched the project, achieving a full-fledged mobile release on iOS and Android, with over 3 million installs worldwide.
• Led Live-Ops support post-release, implementing 10 major events and introducing new content and game modes, resulting in 10% increase in players' Day 30 Retention.