Dorian Souc

1. 2025 — now

   Junior Associate Producer — production support & Live Ops

   Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe

   Production liaison on titles co-developed with the Japanese headquarters (BNEI): milestone and build tracking, Live Ops coordination, and day-to-day communication across multicultural teams.

   Bandai NamcoProduction & Live Ops
   
2. 2023 — 2024

   Operations & international visitor support

   teamLab Planets, Tokyo

   Working-holiday year in Tokyo: front-of-house operations and support for international visitors.

   teamLab PlanetsTokyo
3. 2021 — 2023

   UX Designer — console racing UI/UX

   Kylotonn Games / KT Racing

   Wireframes in Figma and Adobe XD, HUD information architecture, menu navigation flows, and ergonomic validation of player paths on console racing titles.

   KylotonnConsole UI/UX
   
4. 2020 — 2021

   User Researcher — playtest design & analysis

   Ubisoft Paris

   Playtests designed and run on cognitive-psychology foundations. Quantitative and qualitative analysis turned into actionable game-feel feedback for core production teams.

   Ubisoft ParisUser research
   
5. 2018 — 2020

   MSc Game Design & UX

   CNAM-ENJMIN — French national graduate school for games and interactive media

   Preceded by a BSc in cognitive psychology.

   CNAM-ENJMIN

01 · Freelance · game design document & UI · 27 pages

Herd — rhythm battle RPG

Picked up an existing prototype, wrote the design document, then took the interface to near-final UI across roughly 240 screens.

English日本語

02 · Technical test · 4X strategy · art direction & interaction · 8 pages

Warden — ship design screen

Delivered as a working Figma prototype: two art directions, full hover and selection states — read as a real interface, not a static image.

English日本語

All documents

1. 03

   Portfolio overview

   Career, skills and five case studies · 17 pages

   The whole body of work in one document: background, scope, process and outcome for each project. Start here.

   English日本語
2. 04

   Kanji Rush — learning game

   Self-directed · UI / UX & progression · 10 pages

   A kanji learning game covering the 2,136 jōyō kanji: UI kit, UX flows and progression design. Released on itch.io in March 2025.

   English日本語
3. 05

   Pre-battle unit placement

   Self-directed · UX study · 6 pages

   How tactical RPGs let you place units before a battle: three titles benchmarked on inputs per action, then a screen flow built to cut the steps down.

   English日本語
4. 06

   Golf idle game — HUD & quests

   Mobile UI · specification · 3 pages

   Main HUD specification for a mobile idle-tycoon title: player level, currencies and their digit limits, shop access, then the quest flow end to end.

   English日本語
5. 07

   Enemy & boss behaviour specification

   Case study · Japanese only

   Combat and boss design sample built on Streets of Rage 4: full movesets, distance-based AI state machines, attack telegraphing and balancing parameters.

   Japanese only日本語
6. 08

   Ascension!

   Game proposal · 1 page

   A roguelite boss rush: concept, pillars, core loop and target platforms on a single page.

   English日本語
7. 09

   (Re)Construction

   Game proposal · 1 page

   Third-person action in a dream-like world, built on telekinesis: concept, pillars and the loop that ties story, puzzle and battle together.

   English日本語

1. 

   Forever Untold

   Original tactical RPG in UE5 with a small indie team. Class and battle system design, UI flows, and specifications that I implement and verify in-engine myself.

   Unreal Engine 5Tactical RPGIn development
   Devlog on Threads →
2. 

   Aös

   Self-published strategic board game. Rules and balance, lore, crowdfunding (over €10,000 raised), manufacturing and worldwide fulfilment — 300+ copies sold.

   Board gamePublished

   Campaign on Ulule →