ABIGAIL FLORES

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented creature stats, abilities, and AI behaviours for a monster-taming RPG, ensuring varied, strategic, and readable combat encounters.

• Created clear design documentation and pitch materials to communicate gameplay systems and vision to both internal team members and external stakeholders.

• Led prototyping efforts for key gameplay systems, including an element-based combat system, interactive voxel world mechanics (such as block behaviour), and creature capturing.

• Collaborated across disciplines, working closely with programmers and artists to bring new features from concept to demo-ready.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing NPC behaviours, stats, and abilities for Baldur’s Gate 3 using a proprietary engine.

• Building dozens of combat encounters from start to finish, including major boss fights.

• Collaborating with other departments to ensure combat mechanics enhance the story and are clearly communicated.

• Running cross-disciplinary brainstorming sessions.

• Scripting events using a proprietary language, ensuring they support multiple story permutations.

• Building the level design of combat arenas and puzzle areas.

• Creating GDDs and guidelines for new systems, enemies, encounters, and tool requests; conducting playtester interviews and formulating actionables.

• Implementing difficulty variations to ensure our content is fun for all players regardless of RPG experience.

Responsibilities:

• Developing designs for all aspects of a gesture-based RPG fitness game at a tech start-up (such as: 3Cs, level design, character abilities and enemy behaviours).

• Leading feature teams in prototyping new content and iterating on existing content.

• Defining the requirements for and using custom tools to tune and balance gameplay.

• Building whitebox levels in Unity; running user tests and outlining solutions to exposed issues.

• Ensuring the game physically challenges players whilst keeping them safe.

Responsibilities:

• Providing designs for development partners across multiple projects (including: dialogue systems, puzzles and UX/UI design); overseeing the design of a DLC project.

• Iterating on features based on feedback, play-testing, or descoping.

• Reviewing milestones and providing feedback and solutions for narrative scripts, GDDs, and implemented content.

• Running review meetings; prioritising bugs and remaining work.

• Conducting research on products from competitors and other creative industries

• Driving forward accessibility and inclusion as a member of the Accessibility Committee.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinating QA at an award-winning mobile games company.

• Producing design documentation for the use of investors and external play-testers.

• Managing outsourced QA and an in-house QA intern.

• Developing and implementing new QA processes.

• Scripting automated tests.

• Recording bug reports and regressing fixes in JIRA.

• Providing reports on the stability of the game.

• Conducting user testing.

Responsibilities:

• Executing test scripts and identifying bugs within a new game.

• Writing clear and concise descriptions of the issues discovered.

• Ensuring the game complies with industry and company guidelines.

• Assisting with the design of a new menu screen for a PC port.

• Providing feedback on the game experience to the developers.