Wonderspark
Founder, CEO, Creative Director
Building a team, raising money, writing design specs & everything in-between that doesn't involve writing code.
Seppo Helava
Founder, Wonderspark. Prev: Founder, Lead Designer & Studio Manager, Self Aware Games, created Big Fish Casino, one of the highest grossing apps in iOS history.
Founder, Wonderspark. Prev: Founder, Lead Designer & Studio Manager, Self Aware Games, created Big Fish Casino, one of the highest grossing apps in iOS history.
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Self Aware Games
Founder, Co-Founder, Studio Head, Creative Director
My primary roles were Lead Designer & Studio Manager, where I led or significantly contributed to the design of Taxiball, Fleck, Big Fish Bingo, and Big Fish Casino (previously... more called Card Ace: Casino), one of the most financially successful apps in iOS history. I never settle for providing what a player will expect, and always endeavor to create games that are surprising, innovative, charming, and at least a little weird.
Factor 5
Principal Designer
Worked as a system designer and design manager. Mentored designers, worked with leads to create company-wide design processes, and helped create a wide variety of pitches... more & prototypes.
Backbone Entertainment
Game Designer
Designed a flexible system to create reusable "generic" dialog that would adapt based on the speaker's personality traits. Wrote dialog and scripted logic for three characters... more from scratch, and scripted much of the logic for fundamental game systems.
Game Designer
Sims 2 (Console): Designed and implemented a brand-new combinatorial food system, designed a revision of the Sims' social interaction system, and helped craft the overall... more feel of the game.
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Project Lead, Creative Director, Studio Manager · The #1 iOS Casino game, and the most persistent top-10 Grossing game in iOS history. One of the first… · More cross-platform iOS/Android/Web games, and the most social Casino game ever.
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Project Lead/Creative Director/Studio Head on Big Fish Casino (was Card Ace: Casino), one of the most successful apps on the iOS App Store (regularly in the top 5 grossing apps overall, still growing after 5+ years of activity). Managed startup culture from 2-50+ employees.
Primary focuses are company culture, management, game design, rapid iteration.
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