Consulting
One engagement, two halves: a decade of game design, and the AI workflow I rebuilt everything around. Hire either, or the overlap.
I rebuilt how I work around AI: a small operating system that captures, plans, builds, and researches with me. I help people and teams do the same: turn AI from a demo into shipped work.
An AI-run workflow shaped around how you actually work: capture, planning, review, and a knowledge base that compounds instead of rotting in browser tabs.
Turn your repeatable judgment into reusable skills and agents your tools run on demand, like the ones I'll send you below.
Less hype, more shipping. We find the handful of AI workflows that actually pay off, and quietly drop the ones that don't.
A decade designing F2P systems and live-ops for games with millions of players. Marvel Strike Force, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, Disney Sorcerer's Arena, and more.
A principal designer's read on your game: what's working, what'll churn players, and the highest-leverage changes to make next.
Audits of progression, economy, and meta: the loops that decide whether players stay and whether the game pays.
Ongoing design counsel for live games and teams: events, content cadence, and the calls that keep a game healthy.
The package
The useful part isn't AI or game design on their own. It's a designer who ships real games through an AI workflow. Both halves in one hire. The overlap is where it gets interesting.
A standing line to a principal designer who works this way daily. Counsel on design direction and AI adoption, as you need it.
Deep reads and systems audits of your game or feature, delivered fast and grounded in a decade of live-ops.
Working prototypes, internal tools, and operating systems, designed and built with the AI workflow, not just specced.
Everything on this site is built and maintained with the kind of AI workflow I'd set up for you.
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