Alejandro Melian

368 · Bolea, online social platform

• Developed Bolea, an online social platform synced with WhatsApp to facilitate team matchmaking for sports games such as padel.
• Developed the brand book and design guidelines for future implementation, ran user research on UX design, and designed the application's systems.

Edenic Era · TransmuTowers, roguelite tower defense × survival, Steam · team of 9

• Built spreadsheet models covering towers, enemy scaling, meta-upgrades and in-session power-ups, and cut redundant resource and currency loops out of the economy.
• Onboarded mid-production, ran a design audit, and rebuilt meta-progression and power-ups on the existing systemic architecture, cutting development time.
• Rationalised the tower roster to remove functional overlap, specified level layouts, biome systems and enemy variety, and ran user research on friction points to improve feedback, tooltips and QA.

Lyly Interactive, Lima · Lylyland, gamified mobile app

• Designed, documented and balanced over 9 casual mobile experiences — difficulty curves, pacing, resource economies — leading one programmer and one artist on modular design systems that held a cadence of a finished game every two to three weeks.
• Designed the meta-progression and phygital quest system: incentive design that turns real-world behaviour into engagement, driving users into physical partner stores.

TrainingIt · product line of soft skill courses taught through hard skills

• Owned end-to-end development of the course line, from research interviews to hiring the professors.

Divertifica · Madrid, Spain

• Managed a team of 6 building an educational narrative product that teaches university students about Macbeth.
• Managed daily and weekly sprints, developed Gantt charts, and kept project development on schedule.

Blink Shot, Spain · Bugs 'N Guns, co-op third-person shooter, Steam · team of 16

• Set the original product vision and directed production from alpha to beta across 16 artists, programmers and designers; owned gameplay, level and narrative design.
• Designed four elemental weapons, enemy behaviours and a bespoke aim-assist system; flying enemies drop only to combined fire, making co-operation a requirement rather than an optimisation.

Indaga Studios, Lima, Peru · Cusco Paradox and The Calling

• Designed puzzle mechanics, level architecture and onboarding tutorials on Cusco Paradox, delivered by four people in a one-month demo cycle.
• Wrote the design documentation, ran user research and playtesting, and worked gameplay and encounter design on The Calling.

Escuela Kadabra, Lima, Peru · educational 2D platformer, ages 9–12

• Hired for UX/UI, art and animation; also contributed minigames, levels, the creature system, design and research on a product that raised real reading grades.