Satyam Pandey

Battle Stars – Hero Shooter (Mobile | 5M+ Downloads)

• Led the entire Battle Stars design & game team as Game/Design Director, owning the game’s vision, core systems, and player experience from concept → launch → LiveOps.
• Built the core foundation of the game including movement feel, combat pacing, hero roles, readability, and overall game flow.
• Directed the creation and balancing of 10+ unique heroes, shaping ability kits, counters, player fantasies, and long-term hero meta.
• Guided cross-functional collaboration across art, engineering, product, analytics, and community to ensure cohesive execution and polish.
• Drove combat tuning (TTK, recoil, hit feedback, camera, movement curves) to deliver a fast, responsive, and satisfying moment-to-moment experience.
• Oversaw community-driven iteration, integrating player feedback, telemetry, and testing insights to refine balance, missions, and LiveOps.
• Delivered 20+ mission types and 10+ seasonal event frameworks, scaling the game to millions of players post-launch.

Indus – Battle Royale (Mobile / PC)

• Acted as a key systems & LiveOps designer, shaping core progression, loot, and seasonal frameworks for one of India’s biggest upcoming shooters.
• Directed Closed Beta iteration, coordinating with analytics, QA, and community teams to process large-scale player feedback and translate it into actionable design updates.
• Owned the complete Inferno Season design: delivered 5+ new gear items, tuning passes, reward ladders, and thematic progression.
• Built and balanced mission, XP, and reward systems spanning 3+ planned seasons, ensuring long-term player motivation and clear milestone goals.
• Designed loot tables and itemisation for dozens of weapons, attachments, and rarity tiers, improving pacing and drop satisfaction.
• Concepted legendary gear (e.g., Agni Spear), integrating combat role, player fantasy, and lore into cohesive high-impact items.
• Worked closely with product, art, and engineering to maintain alignment between seasonal pillars, gameplay needs, and content pipelines.

• Own GDDs, UX flows, and vertical-slice planning, aligning creative scope with indie team constraints.
• Blade of Yomi (Concept, Action-Rogue-like, UE5): Crafted a boss encounter around a 'Draw of Bloom' sheathe/unsheathe system with tight timing windows and clear telegraphs.
• Under Rated (Concept, Stealth Heist / Narrative): Built the heist loop and stealth clarity systems for multi-phase restaurant infiltrations by undercover food-critic animals.
• Tariff Tycoon (Concept, PC Idle/Sim): Created a satirical overlay idle-economy loop with AFK income, upgrade tiers, and compounding rewards.
• Ephemeral - Narrative Puzzle (48h Game Jam): Devised the core interaction and a 5-level pacing loop, delivering a 30-40 minute narrative experience.

• Core designer as the game scaled from prototype to 20M+ downloads and millions of MAU.
• Built the FTUE / onboarding flow for the first 3 sessions, improving early retention metrics.
• Led design of 4+ core modes (Hide & Seek, Jail Break, Murder Mystery) plus 10+ Limited-Time Events.
• Structured monetization systems for 50+ cosmetics, 3+ passes, and rotating offers tied to missions and seasons.
• Produced UX flows and wireframes for lobbies, progression, and mode selection with UI and art partners.