Kyle Shields

Kyle Shields is a skilled combat designer currently working at Timbre Games since April 2022. Prior to this role, Kyle held positions as a game designer and quality analyst at Phoenix Labs from August 2019 to March 2022. As the owner of Rain City Smash and Trash Tier Gaming from January 2014 to March 2022, Kyle organized highly attended e-sports events, overseeing all aspects of promotion, artwork, tournament management, and personnel management. Kyle's experience also includes working as a quality analyst at Kabam, contributing to game balance discussions and character design for Transformers: Forged to Fight, and at Electronic Arts where general web QA and test suite management were key responsibilities. Additionally, Kyle served as an instructor for summer programming courses at Douglas College in 2014.