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Resume

Professional Experience in Games

  • Generalist Game Designer for the Sandbox MMORPG Profane, currently in development by Insane Game Studio | since June 2023

  • Quest Designer and Game Writer at El Tigre Studio, developing the RPG and Battle Card Game Zeengs: Escaping the Planetoid |
    since May 2024

  • Level Designer and Cinematics Designer at Bad Kid Games: responsible for the narrative, cinematics and level design | August 2021 - September 2022 

Education

  • Game Design: Zion School | November 2020 - October 2022

  • Literature, Art and Contemporary Thinking: Post-graduation course at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio |
    March 2020 - August 2021

  • Graduation in Law: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ | 2013 - 2019

  • Series Workshop (Screenplay): Roteiraria | March 2019 - Fabruary 2020

  • Scripts for Games: Roteiraria | September 2020

  • Advanced Screenplay Workshop: Espaço Telezoom | April - July 2019

What else

  •  I've worked with both Unity and Unreal Engine.

  • I have good knowledge of Visual Scripting, I'm used to C# logic and can navigate through code.

  • During the Game Design program we'd develop games using Unreal Engine's Blueprints.

  • I have some experience with Maya, as we used it for projects at Zion School. 

  • At Bad Kid Games, I'd write the narratives in both Portuguese and English.

  • I’m in love with the concept of environmental storytelling and aim, always, to design levels and systems in a way to better tell a story.

  • While 'in between jobs' in 2023 I was writing and developing an Investigative Point n Click game called Timeline, there's a lot more in the devlog session. I have a goal to finish it during a vacation.

Published Works (Portuguese)

There's a lot so I tought it best to summarize. The books tab has the complete list of literary achievements. 

  • 'Burn': thriller | 2023 

  • 'Death Wakes Up and Other Tales': a collection of dark fantasy short stories | 2021

  • 'The Woman in the Lake': mystery | 2019.
    The manuscript won as best novel in a award by Blumenau's Federal University in 2019

  • 'Attempt': mystery novel for teens | 2013 

  • 'The elf, the man and the Order' and 'The shadow, the song and the sword': fantasy novels based on a Dungeons and Dragons game, published on Wattpad (@gabileaot) | 2019 - 2022

  • A number horror and thriller short stories published in several collections, one of which, entitled 'A Regular Client', won the honorable mention in the category short thriller story of the IV Aberst Award (Association of Brazilian Horror, Thriller and Detective Fiction Writers)

Other Professioal Experiences

​Narrative:

  • Scriptwriter for the 55Unity Comics, Lumx Studios: a social RPG in which holders of the 55Unity NFT collection can vote, each edition, on what happens at next in the comic | January - October 2022 

  • Writing scripts for social media, Rio Memórias | january and febuary 2021

  • Narrative Design at Tamboro S.A.  – Freelance work for a number of projects, building the narrative for gamified online courses – March 2020 to April 2021 

Law Intern:

  • Intern in Criminal Law at Fragoso Advogados | April 2018 - January 2019

  • Intern at the Public Attoney's Office - Criminal Court | April - September 2017

  • Trainee in Civil Law at Kincaid, Mendes Vianna Advogados | January - April 2017

  • Conciliator at the Special Cases Criminal Court (minor crimes) | March - December 2016

Languages

  • Native Portuguese

  • Fluent English 

  • Intermediate French

©2022 Gabriela Leão 

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