Résumé

PATRICK SCOTT

resume@patrick-scott.com | stralor.itch.io

SKILLS & TOOLS

Advanced:

• Leadership, Project Management, Team Welfare, and Conflict Resolution

• Emergence Design, Economies, Systems, and Levels

• Git, Fork, GitKraken, TortoiseGit

• Unity, Godot, C#, gdscript

• Obsidian, OBS, Discord, Slack

• InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Google Docs, Sheets, et. al.

• Convention Showcasing, Guerrilla Marketing

• Autodidactic
  
  

Additional:

• Scrum, Agile, Waterfall

• Narrative, Interaction, UI, UX Design

• Steamworks API & Backend

• TeamCity, Jira, Confluence, Trello, Codecks

• Affinity, Premiere, Audition, After Effects, Gimp, Inkscape, Photopea, Canva

• Public Speaking, Narrative Development

• 2D Animation & Tweens, Volumetrics, FMOD

RECENT EXPERIENCE

VORTEX 7 INTERACTIVE 3/2024 - 5/2025

Game Director & Cofounder

• Gathered and managed team resources, established production pipelines, and organized initiating GDDs

• Created budgets, project charter, and team resource allocations, in addition to managing onboarding processes, conferencing software and issue boards (Kanban tools)

• Courted and negotiated with external partners and stakeholders in-industry — collaborators, contractors, vendors, publishers, etc.

THE APOTHECARY 11/2021 - 12/2023

Director & Founder - PC

• Drafted detailed GDDs and prototypes for mechanics, content, and economies in multiple projects, including research into technical challenges such as serverless backends

• Prototyped in Unity and Godot, investigating architecture and pipeline contrasts

• Researched current state of the market and stealth released experiments

NEST COPENHAGEN 5/2019 - 10/2022

Head of Happiness - Steering Committee

• Managed interpersonal welfare within a dynamic, highly multi-cultural org

• Utilized common Scrum & Mastermind methods to lead targeted project teams

• Authored sweeping culture and process reforms, revitalizing a struggling decade-old community

• Strategized and set in motion community-building habits for long term success — the org's end-of-life prognosis went from six months to another ten-plus years

MOVIESTARPLANET 4/2019 - 10/2021

Tech Lead - Web & Mobile - Team Nebula

• As mixed programming architect & project management role, led technical solutions for the core social network platform and game framework shared by in-house MMO games (MSP2, BSP, + unannounced titles)

• Operated in a mature Agile environment, working daily with Scrum, Kanban, XP, and other frameworks

• Interfaced regularly across teams, consulting with and filling in gaps for devops and cybersecurity regularly

• Guided team and redesigned live-ops infrastructure around current best practices and technologies, deploying major overhauls improving pipeline and performance

• Narrowed in on production bottlenecks, and focused on team wellbeing as critical infrastructure

PS STUDIOS, DESTINATION ARES 8/2014 - 7/2018

Technical & Creative Director - PC

• Carried project 3 years from conception through post-release on Steam, including Greenlight and a 10-month public Early Access

• Solo development: programming (C#), design, art, writing, exhibiting, community relations, and more

• Nailed the niche: resulted in a tiny but fanatical group of players

• Followed up 5 years after launch with patches and open-source release

IGDA SAN DIEGO 6/2017 - 7/2018

Chair - Board of Directors

•  Led and coordinated team of driven leaders and volunteers with the purpose of supporting the wellbeing and careers of industry peers

• Organized 100-person onsite game jams & managed hub for external community events

SHOVELWARE GAMES, SQUEELINGS 2/2017 - 5/2017

Lead Level Designer - Mobile

• Built hundreds of tight puzzle levels with a logic-gate-like system

• Consulted on design direction and technical issues

PENNYSOLDIERS GAMES 3/2012 - 7/2014

Founding Designer - Mobile, Tabletop

• Recruited lean, scrappy, and resourceful team

• Designed and produced several projects, with half a dozen published releases

• Reached 50k downloads on one project in early days of Google Play, when users were scarce
  
  

PRESENT STUDIES

EMERGENT ECOSYSTEMS

Balancing Economies for Thriving

• Collaborating with prediction market sites, looking broadly at competitors, games, and real-world economies

• Studying motivation as a function of economic incentives, playfulness, and success

• Exploring compounding prosocial behaviors vs. cultural amnesia

• Cultivating Community Dynamics

• Advents of Biological Complexity

• Tracking how layers of simple phenomena cascade into greater interacting structures (Emergence)
  
  

FORMAL EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

English, Bachelor of Arts

• Cross-discipline emphasis in technology, psychology, and media

• Outstanding Achievement in the Major; Honors; Regents' Scholar; Dean's List
  
  

AWARDS SELECTION

• BlockStarPlanet - Best Live Game (Spilprisen)

• a tree in memory - Most Emotional (Nordic GJO)

• Destination Ares - Best Strat/Sim (DreamHack Austin)

• Destination Ares - Selection (Indie MEGABOOTH)

• :alarm_clock: - 5th Place (of 1030 entries) in Innovation (Ludum Dare Compo, Solo)