Confidential Client · August 2026 – Present
Working on a confidential game project.
Đặng Đông Quân
Game Designer
Game Designer specializing in gameplay systems, progression design, mobile game research, and rapid Unity prototyping.
Design Approach
I turn ideas into clear, testable gameplay systems that players learn through interaction. I prototype early, observe player behavior, and iterate using evidence.
Top 7 / 206Fun Factor · My First Jam! 2026
Top 17 / 206Effort · My First Jam! 2026
FinalistVNG Prompt To Play
8 Playable PrototypesAcross puzzle, action, RPG, and strategy
WATER PUZZLE11/07/2026
Prompt to Play by VNG
Finalist VNG Prompt To PlayPlayable Unity prototype
Design decisions:
- Designed a placement-and-routing system suitable for short mobile sessions.
- Built a difficulty framework that expands grid size, pipe behavior, and planning depth without relying on arbitrary randomness.
- Used clear visual feedback so players could understand flow errors and revise their solution.
ConstraintCore RuleDifficulty FrameworkPrototypePlaytestIteration
CHICK CHICK21/03/2026
My First Jam! 2026
Top 7 / 206 Fun FactorTop 17 / 206 Effort
Design decisions:
- Designed a 10-level learning progression that introduces one readable rule at a time.
- Combined push blocks, pressure plates, ice, timed hazards, enemies, and portals after players had learned them individually.
- Balanced difficulty through spatial constraints and logical interactions instead of randomness.
Core MechanicTeaching LevelCombinationEscalationPlaytestPolish
JOYEUSE
05/04/2026
Personal Project
A 2D RPG prototype built around linear map progression, class-based builds, loot, skill-tree upgrades, and soul collection. Players choose how to adapt their build as each region introduces a new combat lesson.
TOWER CONNECTIONS
23/05/2026
GameDev.tv Game Jam 2026
A tower-defense roguelite where tower color and placement create a Nexus network. Players position links to damage, slow, poison, or stun enemies as they cross the route.
SLAPABOT
16/05/2026
Casual Game Challenge SEASON 01
A two-lane arcade runner that asks players to read enemy patterns and choose slash, block, lane-switch, or weapon-skill responses. The prototype prioritizes one-look readability and short-run mastery.
MR.FIX-IT
05/03/2026
Gamtopia Hanoi 2026
A simulation-puzzle prototype about choosing a limited tool set before each electrical repair. Circuit minigames and time pressure make preparation, precision, and recovery part of the player decision.
I KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DRINK
03/03/2026
Global Game Jam 2026
A narrative prototype with an emotional-inference system: players read dialogue, music, and surroundings to choose questions and drinks under incomplete information. Branching outcomes make those judgments visible.
OUTWORLD DOMINION
26/09/2025
Secret Santa 2025
A fast-paced FPS roguelike prototype built around run-based buff choices, movement, and boss-pattern reading. Controlled randomness asks players to adapt a combat build from run to run.
WHEEL OF FATE
25/05/2026
Design Concept
An early-stage dice-driven board roguelite exploring a 12-tile wheel where each resolved tile grows more rewarding and more dangerous across a run.
GRANDMA'S BACKYARD GARDEN
30/05/2026
Design Concept
An early-stage top-down exploration concept about using small garden activities and story fragments to recreate a summer childhood memory in the Mekong Delta.
Independent studies of gameplay systems, player motivation, progression, economy, puzzle UX, and LiveOps using publicly available games and information.
Why Wukong Continues to Attract Players
An analysis of why players repeatedly invest in Wukong characters and skins across major games, even though the source character is more than 400 years old.
Archero 2 Economy
A study topic on publicly visible sources, sinks, upgrade pressure, and resource pacing.
Water Sort
A study topic on cause-and-effect readability, cognitive load, level escalation, and restart friction.
Brawl Stars
A study topic on short-session loops, reward cadence, mastery, and return motivations.
LiveOps
A study topic on public examples of event cadence, progression hooks, and player goals.
About me
I design systems that make the next player decision clear, meaningful, and worth considering.
Game Designer with 2 years of independent and project-based game research experience, including 1 year focused on mobile games. My work combines systems thinking, player psychology, level design, and rapid experimentation. Puzzle games shaped how I communicate rules through interaction; roguelites taught me to design meaningful trade-offs; and mobile games taught me to respect every second of the player’s attention.
What motivates meTurning a simple gameplay hook into a system with clear rules, meaningful decisions, and room for mastery.
How I workDefine the player decision, prototype the smallest testable version, observe behavior, and iterate from evidence.