Stalyan Games

It has now been 7 months since my last update. Way too much.

But i have been really busy and many changes have occurred both at a personal and professional level.

I’m currently working at Social Point (6 months and a half now), a FB games developer of successful games like Social Empries and Social Wars (actually today we’ve peaked to 1.000.0000 DAU for SE and more than 700k for SW! that’s pretty good numbers)

This is Social Empires…

I started as the first QA tester, and at the same time i was asked to mediate as Game Design Assistant (actually, my second day at work i designed my first Quest Map for SE). As a new tester mate came in, i’ve been more focused on Game Design without neglecting my duties as QA yet.

Regarding my role as GD, i’m in charge of setting stats for all SE and SW units that we release. For SE, my mate and Producer Xavi Fradera chooses and designs all the attacks for SE units besides many other things, and i do the same for SW. This requires reciprocal feedback with GFX artists, animators and Programmers to solve potential issues and to make units worth gameplay and visually wise. This feels much like an alchemic process when you get to finally see the units running around the game map!

I also wrote the 240 or so missions for SE, and the 140 or so for SW, and the specification for 7 SE chapters (those ‘enemy camps’ that appear on your SE city map from time to time).

…and this is Social Wars in width screen!

What else i did? the 5 Survival maps for SE. Only 2 have been unlocked at the moment, but we have 3 more ready to be launched soon. I think the mode is funny but it needs some improvements to be more engaging yet… even sometimes you can’t do all you’d like as deadlines here are so tight, much more than in any console/mobile/PC development cycle.

Besides that, i write almost all the marketing texts related with Special Offers, In-Game News, Game Features, etc.

Also i’m in charge of contacting casual game developers to add new games to our FB casual platform. Our new additions have been Save the Cow and Breakit Saga, and we’ll release a new one soon, so stay tuned!

So now that i stop for a brief moment and see things with a little bit more of perspective, i’m grateful to have been given the chance to work on my life-long dream, that’s games design, and to share daily with such gifted people both at a professional and personal level. There’s many new stuff ahead and many new things to learn each day. Social Gaming is superfast evolving and there’s not much time to stop philosophizing about!

Hope the next update doesn’t take that long.