Carlos Duralde

Senior LiveOps Designer at East Side Games

Carlos Duralde has a diverse work experience in the gaming industry. Carlos is currently working as a Senior LiveOps Designer at East Side Games since August 2022. Prior to that, they served as a Lead Mobile Game Designer at BroadbandTV (BBTV) from October 2019 to August 2022. Before that, they worked at Immersive Tech as a Game Designer from August 2017 to October 2019, where they designed Escape Room experiences and collaborated with artists and fabricators to bring design visions to life. Carlos also worked at V2 Games as a Game Designer from November 2015 to October 2017, where they designed and led the production process of multiple mobile titles, focusing on game economies for monetization and retention. Carlos also gained experience as a Game Designer at Rainmaker Entertainment Inc from September 2015 to January 2016, where they worked on a mobile game tied to the ReBoot IP and collaborated closely with script writers. Earlier in their career, Carlos worked as a Quality Assurance Analyst at ShopVisible, LLC from March 2013 to July 2014, where they conducted regression testing and wrote automation scripts. Carlos also interned at Adult Swim Games/Cartoon Network as a Web/Mobile Games Intern in 2012, assisting with QA and participating in early design meetings, and at Nickelodeon Animation Studio as a Tech Services Intern in 2011.

Carlos Duralde's education history includes obtaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Computational Media from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where they attended from 2008 to 2012. Later, they pursued a Master of Digital Media degree specializing in Game Design at the Centre for Digital Media, which they completed between 2014 and 2016.

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Burnaby, Canada

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East Side Games

East Side Games is a developer and publisher of free to play mobile games. It is focused on making narrative idle games in the business, and creating the technology for developers to tell stories.The company is an independent and profitable game studio with a collaborative, creative, and fun culture. Their games fund all their new projects andits purpose-built technology infrastructure powers its rapid, iterative prototyping, based directly on audience feedback. This allows them to take design ideas to playable releases in days rather than months.ESG currently publishes and operates successful franchise titles including Archer: Danger Phone, Dragon Up: Idle Adventure, The Goldbergs: Back to the 80s, It's Always Sunny: The Gang Goes Mobile, and Trailer Park Boys Grea$y Money.East Side Games was recently recognized on the "Top 50 Mobile Game Makers 2020" list compiled by Pocket Gamer Biz, on the "Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers" list compiled by Canada's Top 100, as well as on the "Canada's Top Growing Companies 2019" list compiled by Globe & Mail Report on Business and 2020 Red Herring Top 100 North America Winners.In 2011, Vancouver, British Columbia


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Vancouver, Canada

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51-200

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