DAMIEN SOUSTRE
Game & Level Designer
About me
Hello there!
My name is Damien Soustre, I'm currently looking for a job of Game or Level Designer. I'm actually living at Bordeaux and an old student of Bachelor Game Design at Bellecour Ecole, Lyon.
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In my free time I like doing world building, bouldering and sharing with my family and friends.
My Skills
- Communicating my ideas with clear presentations
- Documenting my work for other sections
- Follow the production during the whole process from Ideation to Release
- Developing features & prototypes on the Game Engine (C++, C#, Blueprint, Unreal, Unity, Godot)
- Communicating with every sections of Game Development (Designers, Artists, Programmers, Managers, Investors, QAs, etc)
- Designing and Integrating a Level for the Game
- Analyse the Game to find solutions that suit it
- Balancing the Game and create documentations about it
- Updating my tasks on Task Manager Softwares (Jira, Trello, etc)
My interest for Designing Games
For as long as I can remember, I've always loved creating games. Be it for board games or video games. I started to imagine a leveling with Dofus maps, the ones of houses. I dreamed of seeing the inside of them. Being much too expensive for my little self (at the age of 6). So I started to picture them.
On second thought... That's probably where my passion for housing in MMOs came from.
This desire to create then developed to become more general, I then started to invent classes, then stories, then board games. I ended up studying game design.
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I actually find it very rewarding to watch players go through the games I've created and watch each player's personality reveal itself in the face of difficulties, rewards and lore. I particularly like the cat and mouse game between the Designer and the "rebellious" players who want to break the rules of the game, who want to explore everything, read everything and pass through any challenge. What motivates me the most is to manage to offer more and more immersive game moments. It's a subject that I really like, I find it very simple and complicated at the same time to create a feeling for games. Because on the one hand the human brain has a monumental capacity of adaptation that allows it to immerse itself quickly in very simple games, but at the same time it remains very critical and alert.
Various hobbies
As I said before, I love creating worlds. In my opinion, a good universe is marked by the stories that take place in it. For me, a successful game must be based on a solid background and to keep my hand in, I practice on a small scale by doing roleplay, both on the table and in writing.
At the moment I'm writing my own Dark Fantasy universe with my best friend. I'd like to see this project come to life one day.
I also like bouldering a lot, it's funny when you know that I'm afraid of height. But that probably what makes me love it, surpassing myself.
I enjoy the company of animals, especially canines.
I like to spend time at the bar... Without going overboard with alcoholic beverages. Once again, it's the meeting of people from different backgrounds that motivates me, although a good beer is a definite plus.