Disc Arena (Portfolio Remake)
Fast-paced disc battler focused on clear reads, anticipation and mobile-friendly pacing.
- Role: Game Designer
- Engine: Unity
- Platform: Mobile
Game & Level Designer
Hi, I’m Chinmay
I design games that feel expressive, readable and satisfying. My focus is on strong core loops, clean systems and clear player experience.
Showreel
A quick look at Disc Duel, Out of Sight, Dude and other prototypes focused on systems and feel.
News Flash
Actively seeking Game Design, QA & Producer roles.
Shipped Web Game
Street Dribble
Designed gameplay and levels for a fast-paced arcade football game on Poki — focused on readability, pacing, and replay-driven retention.
Board Game Design
Fortress Conquest
A tactical team strategy board game with fixed movement and dice-driven combat, plus resource cards gated behind rolling a six.
My Work
A mix of design, systems thinking, QA, and research work.
Out of Sight
Endless gravity-flip runner exploring telegraphing, pacing and procedural level chunks.
- Role: Game Designer · Programmer
- Engine: Unity
- Platform: PC / Web
Dude
A roguelike prototype built to explore emotional arcs through scarcity and risk.
- Role: Game Designer
- Engine: Unity
- Platform: PC
Amaze
Mobile game inspired from puzzle game Amaze to showcase automated level generation.
- Role: Game Designer/Programmer
- Engine: Unity
- Platform: Mobile
Street Dribble
Web-based platformer game focused targetting childrens.
- Role: Level & Game Designer
- Engine: H5
- Platform: Web
Fortress Conquest
Board-game designed for my Master’s assignment.
- Role: Game Designer
- Engine: Chinmay's Brain
- Platform: Board-game
Temple Run 1 & 2 (Live Ops)
Worked across both feature development and QA teams, actively participating in design discussions and feature planning. Regularly verified economy flow, balance changes, and live-ops updates to ensure changes aligned with player behaviour and long-term retention goals.
- Role: Dev QA
- Platform: iOS / Android
- Focus: Live Ops
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
Part of the project from pre-production through later stages, working in an embedded QA environment alongside developers. Focused on validating features early, identifying regressions, and ensuring player-facing issues were caught before reaching critical milestones.
- Role: FQA Tester
- Platform: PS5 / PC
- Studio: Rocksteady / Keywords
Sniper Elite 4
Worked as part of the DLC QA team, verifying end-to-end game flow across additional content. Reviewed gameplay and progression from a player perspective, providing feedback on clarity, pacing, and overall experience.
- Role: FQA Tester
- Platform: PS4
- Studio: Rebellion
Zombie Army 4
Conducted compliance testing for the Nintendo Switch version, alongside functional and performance validation. Ensured platform requirements were met while checking gameplay stability, load performance, and feature parity.
- Role: FQA Tester
- Platform: Nintendo Switch
- Studio: Rebellion
Ethical Monetization in Free-to-Play Games: A Case Study of Dota 2
An evaluative study examining how Dota 2 balances monetization, ethics, and long-term player experience.
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Reducing Player Frustration Through Gradual Mechanic Introduction in FTUE
Research focused on onboarding design, player frustration, and gradual mechanic introduction during early gameplay.
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An MDA Analysis of Shadow of the Colossus
A design-focused analysis using the Mechanics–Dynamics–Aesthetics framework to study emotional impact and minimalism.
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About Me
Designer focused on systems and player experience.
I’m Chinmay, a game designer who enjoys building prototypes, tuning difficulty curves and refining player experience through clear systems and readable feedback.
I’m especially interested in FTUE, retention, pacing and how small shifts in tuning change how a game feels moment to moment.
04+
Years in games
10+
Projects & jams
03
Core disciplines
Skills
What I focus on when building and shipping games.
Game Design
Designing readable mechanics, clear goals and satisfying core loops.
- Core Loop Design
- Mechanics & Rules
- Level Design (2D / 3D)
- Difficulty Tuning
- Game Feel & Feedback
Systems & Progression
Building scalable systems that support long-term play.
- Progression Curves
- Economy Balancing
- FTUE & Onboarding
- Retention Design
- Feature Scoping
Prototyping
Rapidly testing ideas to validate feel, pacing and clarity.
- Unity (C#)
- Rapid Iteration
- Greybox Levels
- Playtest-driven Changes
QA & Testing
Ensuring features are stable, readable and safe for release.
- Functional & Regression QA
- Console & Mobile Testing
- Clear Repro Steps
- Live Ops Validation
Tools
Tools I use daily to collaborate and ship.
- Unity
- Git
- Jira
- Notion
- Excel / Sheets
Collaboration
Working closely with designers, programmers and QA.
- GDD / LDD Writing
- Cross-team Communication
- Playtest Feedback
- Iteration Planning
Education & Experience
Experience
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Game Designer
Xansr Technologies · Full-time
2023 – 2024
Worked on mobile titles across level design, live-ops features, difficulty tuning and documentation.
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Dev QA
Xansr Technologies · Full-time
2022 – 2023
Supported Temple Run live-ops by validating events, tuning economy changes, investigating issues and shaping player experience.
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FQA Tester
Keywords / Babel Media
2021 – 2022
Console testing on titles like Zombie Army 4 & Sniper Elite 4 with deep focus on repro steps and player-facing issues.
Education
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Master’s in Game Design
UCA Farnham
2024 – 2025
Focused on expressive game design, FTUE research and a major project rebuilding Disc Duel for portfolio.
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Bachelor’s in Gaming
Ajeenkya DY Patil University Pune
2019 – 2022
Gold Medalist of the batch. Developed & Published couple of Mobile games on Playstore & Appstore.
Let’s Talk
Open to game design roles, full-time or freelance.
contactchinmaykawale@gmail.com
Location
United Kingdom
Time zone
UK / Europe-friendly hours