Duc Thang Dang — Game Designer

Objective

Game Designer with over 5 years of experience designing and balancing mobile game systems and economies for casual and hybrid-casual titles on global markets. Experienced across the full product cycle — from system, economy, and content design through to post-launch data analysis and LiveOps — with a hands-on approach to owning and improving live products.

Core Competencies

Game & Product: Game economy and system design, level and content design, stat and balance tuning, monetization strategy, LiveOps planning, A/B testing, player behaviour analysis
Technical: Excel and SQL for balancing and economy tuning; Python for data analysis and automation; Unity, C#, Jira, Git
Collaboration: Cross-functional teamwork, international team coordination, Agile/Scrum workflows
Languages: English (professional proficiency), Vietnamese (native)

Professional Experience

Game Designer

Enigma Softwares May 2024 — Present

Designed and balanced core game systems, economies, and progression for the Avalar series, taking features from concept through to live deployment.
Created new heroes, characters, and combat systems, including hero kits, stat curves, and role balance across the roster.
Owned economy balancing, stat tuning, and LiveOps event planning on an ongoing basis, using Excel and SQL models to set and validate values.
Built and maintained data pipelines from BigQuery to Looker dashboards (Python + SQL), turning live player data into concrete balance and design changes.

Game Designer & Data Analyst

Sava Meta Jul 2026 — Present

Lead design and analysis for Tiny Knightfall, an idle RPG; own game evaluation, user-flow review, and prioritisation of the changes the product team ships.
Reviewed and reworked the early-game experience — tutorial, pacing, progression, and difficulty — to improve onboarding and new-player comprehension.
Audited the IAP and monetization structure (packages, pricing, reward value, offer timing) and tied the findings back to progression and economy design.
Combined player-data analysis with design review to identify the highest-impact issues across user flow, progression, retention, and monetization.

Freelance Game Designer

Wefun Studio Dec 2025 — Jun 2026

Owned full production direction for Happy Doctor, including feature design, economy rebalancing, and A/B testing strategy.
Redesigned the early-game funnel from session data, shifting the median churning moment from 20s to 120s.
Diagnosed a harmful change from match-length analysis that was causing a 10% drop on levels 1 and 2, and owned the rollback and rebalance.

Junior Game Designer

Skybull Dec 2023 — Mar 2025

Took ownership of product direction for mobile game releases, contributing to over 100% revenue growth through economy and monetization changes across development cycles.
Defined game mechanics end-to-end and broke them down into scoped tasks across teams, maintaining alignment throughout the development cycle.
Designed and ran A/B tests during soft launches to refine pricing, offers, and progression; translated results into config and design changes.
Introduced structured experimentation and AI-driven localization workflows that improved sprint throughput.

Junior Game Designer

Gameloft Apr 2021 — Dec 2023

Worked on economy and feature design across multiple globally released titles, collaborating with international design and production teams.
Ported Dragon Mania Legends to Android for the Chinese market, adapting game systems and content to meet regional platform requirements.
Mentored 3 junior designers as a certified Gameloft trainer, sharing design process knowledge and best practices.

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology

South Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences Finland

Relevant coursework: game development with Unity, project management.

Key Projects

Shadow Hunter Legacy (Enigma Softwares) — Designed core systems, combat, and progression; built the economy simulation and balancing tooling used to tune the live economy.
Avalar: Raid of Shadow (Enigma Softwares) — Designed economy and hero systems; created new features and heroes; set up the data infrastructure pipelines supporting live operations.
Avalar: Shadow War (Enigma Softwares) — Worked on systems and economy design with a data-informed approach to tuning and feature prioritisation.
Tiny Knightfall (Sava Meta) — Idle RPG. Owns overall game evaluation, user-flow analysis, and IAP/monetization review to drive progression and retention improvements.
Happy Doctor (Wefun Studio) — Casual mobile title. Owned production direction; a data-driven funnel redesign lifted average playtime by 10%.
Idle Cat Empire: Tycoon Games (Skybull) — Globally released hybrid casual tycoon. Designed core features from scratch, analysed player data, managed A/B tests, and coordinated task delivery across teams.
LEGO Legacy: Heroes Unboxed (Netflix/Gameloft) — Designed in-game economy and a new game mode; contributed to a 15% boost in organic users at launch; used player data to guide post-release iterations.
Dragon Mania Legends (Gameloft) — Ported the title to Android for the Chinese market, adapting systems and content to meet regional requirements.
March of Empires (Gameloft) — Contributed to process automation for porting the title to Android.

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