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Email athina.giokarini@gmail.com
Phone +358 046 95 18 093
Address
Jämeräntaival 6B 205
Espoo 02150
Finland
I am working as a Junior Level Designer at Seriously Digital Entertainment, producing content for our award winning game, Best Fiends.
I am currently attending Master's Programme in New Media; Game Design and Production, in Aalto University, Finland. Formerly, I studied Architecture in Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.
I'm passionate about Game Design, Level Design and creating amazing player experiences in unexpected Spaces. Apart from making small games, I have participated as a Game Designer -and an Architect- in international competitions, and I'm interested in all things that have to do with spatially challenging, or experimental games. I love to read, learn new things, play all types of games, design and draw, not necessarily in this order.
I am also an advocate for greek developers, giving talks about game design and helping other aspiring developers find their way to the industry
I'm always looking for new adventures in my game-making journey, so feel free to get in touch!
Skills
Unity 5
RPG Maker
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Autodesk Maya
Autodesk 3Ds Max
McNeel Rhinoceros 3D
Grasshopper
Gravisoft Archicad
Abvent Artlantis
Specialties
Level Design
Game Design
Architectural Design
Experience
Seriously Digital Entertainment
Junior Level Designer
Helsinki, Finland · 1/12/2017 – Present
Responsibilities include level design and balancing, game elements and game mechanic design, event design, balancing future content and modifying existing levels based on analytics data.
Find out more at https://bestfiends.com
Seriously Digital Entertainment
Level Designer Intern
Helsinki, Finland · 03/04/2016 – 30/11/2016
Responsibilities include level design and balancing, game elements and game mechanic design, event design, balancing future content and modifying existing levels based on analytics data.
Find out more at https://bestfiends.com
SindeFin
Student Research Assistant
Greece · 01/03/2016 – 20/12/2016
Responsibilities included assisting in research and development of Architecture and New Media-oriented projects, as well as student tutoring.
Intern Game Tester
Xanthi, Greece · 2015/11 – 2016/03
Worked as a game tester for greek startup Aetherguilds. Responsibilities included playtesting and usability testing, community management and bug reporting.
Municipality of Xanthi
Intern Architect
Xanthi, Greece · 2014/10 – 2014/11
Measurement and mapping of an abandoned tobacco warehouse in Xanthi.
D.U.Th., Dept. of Architectural Engineering
Student Tutor
Xanthi, Greece · 2014/02 – 2014/08
Hybrid Hunt: Petrified, 2014, elective course “New Media in Architecture”
Responsibilities involved the conceptual and narrative design of an augmented reality game, “Petrified”, set in the Old Town of Xanthi through a procedure of team excercises and presentations in the classroom.
Seriously Digital Entertainment
Junior Level Designer
Helsinki, Finland · 01/12/2017 – Present
I am currently working as an Intern Level Designer for the mobile, puzzle game, Best Fiends. Responsibilities include level design and balancing, game elements and game mechanic design, event design, balancing future content and modifying existing levels based on analytics data.
https://bestfiends.com/
Education
Democritus University of Thrace
Architecture Engineer
Xanthi, Greece · 09/2009 – 07/2016
Diploma degree of 8.42 (Very Good)
My Research Thesis project “Videogames and the City: Spatial evolution of the Videogame in Public Space” and my Diploma Thesis Project “Pop Up Game Conventions – Portable Virtual Gaming Stations”.
Honours:
Diploma Project shortlisted among 4 best projects of the department for the year 2015-2016.
State Scholarship & Award for the year 2009-2010.
Awards
| 2017 | Social Skills Edugame Award, FGJ, Finnish Game Jam
For the game Hi,or Not. |
| 2018 | Unity Student Scholarship for GDC 2018, Unity Technologies
Game Developers Conference and Unity have launched the Unity Student Scholarship, to give 50 students with outstanding Unity projects |