Game designer · Edenic Era

Alejandro Melian designs the game.

Encounters, gameplay, systems and a human-centric design approach. More than five years building games, having shipped multiple games. I keep on the move, constantly prototyping new ideas and doing game jams. If you are interested in working together, contact me and let's talk.

01 — Shipped

Work & current projects

Released titles across Steam and itch.io. Click the focused card to open its trailer.

Lylyland
Released · Lyly Interactive

Lylyland

A gamified app that walks people to real places. Over eight casual games plus a quest layer built on photos, observation and riddles.

Read the design notes →
02 — Playable & jams

Prototypes & game jams

Design questions answered in code, plus the jam games that shipped on itch.io.

Belowlite key art
Playable build

Mini Rogue

A tabletop roguelike on one thumb — Focus bends the dice, weapons break as they evolve, and your last corpse is waiting on the floor you died on.

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Wanderfull key art
Playable build

Caravan Defense

The thing you defend keeps moving. Distance from the caravan is the risk dial, and upgrades split between engineering and magic.

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Gridlite key art
Playable build

QTE Combat

Reaction inside a turn structure: attacks resolve on an isometric grid, but each exchange opens a timed input window.

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The Last Piece key art
Playable build

The Last Piece

Chess movement with an uncertain outcome — a d6 against defence, and Focus buys the reroll.

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Flowermonger key art
Playable build

Gnome Garden

Tower defence where the towers are the economy. Ships a blueprint editor for authoring new plants.

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Salvager key art
Playable build

Sonar Salvage

A crane descends 2,400 metres of dark on a two-minute battery — and the battery is also the lamp.

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Playable build

Cozy Meadow

A garden that grows into a habitat: harvest-gated unlocks, hybrids, and wildlife that answers what you planted.

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03 — About

Who am I?

Dedicated and passionate about the world of gaming. 5+ years working in video games.

Experience as a game designer focused on combat design, enemy and boss design, encounter design and game balancing. I have additional experience across multiple areas of game development — UX/UI, pixel art, animation, prototyping, gameplay, production, product management and research — and I taught game design fundamentals as a professor at UTAD.

I understand the pipeline of most departments in games, and I use that knowledge to respect the complexity and necessity of teamwork and cooperation in game development.

Combat designEnemy & boss designEncounter designGame balancingUX/UIPixel artAnimationPrototypingGameplayProductionProduct managementResearchTeaching
Contact
alejandro.melian.r@gmail.com
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/a-melian
Currently
Game designer at Edenic Era
Open to
Game design (systems) · combat & gameplay design
04 — Companion

Dress the slime

Most pieces are locked. Explore the portfolio to earn them — every locked swatch tells you what it wants.

Body
Face
Eyes

Click a locked piece to see how to unlock it.

Available for game design roles

Let's build
the game.

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Based inLima, Peru · remote-friendly · EN / ES
Alejandro Melian · Game design portfolio · 2026
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