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Hi, and welcome to this short presentation of me.
My name's Rickard Edén, I provide consultation and contracting services regarding games and level design. I have 7 years of professional game development experience, with an additional 6 years as a hobby developer, prior to that.

Please contact me at rickard [at] realizegamedesign [dot] com and I'll try to answer any questions you might have.


Why should you hire me?
  • My breadth of experience and generalistic view on game development makes me very adaptable to the tasks you need solved.
  • I put your needs and requirements in focus.
  • Since I haven't been involved in your project, I can look at it with fresh and unbiased eyes.
  • I can usually begin working with short notice, on- or off-site.
  • The monetary cost involved is very low, compared to the gains in flexibility and quality.

  • What I can do for you:
  • Be an experienced general designer on your team, supporting gameplay designers.
  • As a senior designer, use your tool-, feature- and design set to create game levels and puzzles.
  • Provide feedback on existing levels and design.
  • Help you create level design framework, workflow, and pipelines.
  • Break down design features into measurable components.
  • Be a communications hub between different development branches.
  • Help coaching junior design staff.

    Professional experience includes:
  • 6 years of designing and creating worlds for a wide range of game types, including MMO's, fantasy to future action games, for consoles, handhelds and pc.
  • Multiplayer game mode and weapon design and tuning.
  • Prototype and features production.
  • QA management.
  • Gameplay programming.
  • Adventure(Hidden Object) puzzle and story design.
  • Website (c) Rickard Edén 2010. All images and titles are (c) of their respective owner.