Use: Removes all Unbalanced and Unclear effects from your game.
I design the rules players feel and the content that fills them: combat kits, enemies and bosses, progression and economies. I write the specs, build the spreadsheets, prototype the feature and tune it through playtests, data and a critical eye until it delivers what the game promises.
From mobile to Steam.
Designed the core loop, economy and progression of an incremental game about terraforming Mars, with a mechanic of its own for each building, from a talent tree to fluid cooling. Built and tuned its game data in tables of up to 500 entries through playtests.
Took an existing prototype to launch. Designed the combat, where defeated enemies become bombs that chain through the crowd, the elemental system, and every boss and enemy, balanced across both stages. Also wrote the three companions who help the hero face a villain who is a twisted version of himself.
Led the design of five of them, including Mutant Combat Merge and Hex Conquest, from high concept and GDD to post-launch balancing driven by soft launch metrics and publisher feedback.
Before that, at PUGA Studios: economies, combat, content and levels for NDA-protected projects, and Carnavalência, a mobile game made with Brazil's Ministry of Culture.
Mechanics, lore and numbers are designed together, so every rule belongs to its world.
I own features end to end, from the experience a player should have to the numbers that make it happen.
What the player should feel, and the pillars that protect it.
Feature brief
Rules, edge cases and UI flow, written so engineers and artists can build from it.
Feature spec
Economies, curves and balance, modeled before they are built.
Balance sheet
A playable version as early as possible, with the team or AI-assisted.
Playable build
Metrics show what happened, not why. I read them against playtests and my own critique before touching a number.
Tuning pass
Steps 3 to 5 run in a loop. I'm the toughest critic of my own designs, so every pass ends with something to cut, fix or push further.
Every system belongs to its world.
Mars Incremental: Cooling Gel
Each part pushes back on the others.
Demon Hunter: Battle Rhythm
Numbers and feel are tested, not assumed.
Hex Conquest, Hoplon
“Well-made work, given the time it needs, with care and study, always wins.”
The documents behind the games, the way a team would use them.
How a talent tree turned every prestige into a choice about how to play: the goals, the rules, a tree you can explore, and the time-based balance model that graded it, failures included.
What I make in my free time: designs and tools I share with the community of each game.
A talent calculator and class tester for every WoW: Forever class, built from public beta data. Pick your talents and action bar, then feel the rotation in damage, tank and healing tests before you commit to a class.
Use: Build a class and fight a dummy.
A minimal, elegant interface for WoW: Forever, built for ultrawide screens.
Use: Import it into EllesmereUI.
A playable prototype of a Demon Hunter class for WoW: Forever, faithful to the Warcraft III hero. Three specializations, a combat rhythm where every hit brings your strikes back sooner, Demon Bloods earned by hunting demons, original lore that brings the class to the Horde, and a stage you can play right now.
Use: Play the stage in your browser.
Use: Play the stage on a PC.
Open to systems, content and combat design roles, in Recife or relocating to the US, Canada or Europe.
Available nowEnglish: full professional proficiency
daniel.manginelli.o@gmail.com
