CHRIS DECHAMPLAIN
Game / Level Designer
I'm a game designer with 7 years of professional game industry experience, where I have served a number design-centric roles and provided mentoring and leadership. I was most recently Lead Game Designer and UX/UI Designer at Zugalu Entertainment.
Projects
Vault of Ages (2026)
Game Designer / Artist
Artist, writer and designer on some published works for tabletop roleplaying games. A hobby and life-long passion project.
Read MoreHunter's Moon (2025)
UX/UI Designer
On this 6-month project I designed UI art, reworked UX flows, illustrated icons and items, and created visual effects and game feel.
Read MoreTempered Hue (2024)
Lead Game Designer & UX/UI Designer
I was responsible for mechanics and systems design and level design. Verticality was a focus : climbing and blacksmithing were core mechanics. I was also responsible for documentation.
Read MoreThrive (2024)
Lead Game Designer
In my role as Lead Game Designer, I handled combat, economy and resource design and balance, and documentation. I was also responsible for all UI/UX design, and acted as UI artist.
Read MoreStemuli (2021)
Game & Level Designer
An educational initiative intended for K-8 children, this project mixed play, socialization and education within a digital space. I created hub worlds as playspaces for children, and created and prototyped mechanics for their interactions with the environment.
Read MoreDual Universe (2020)
Level Designer
I created enormous structures, space stations, player hubs, instances and dungeons, and spacecraft for use in a space-themed MMO. In addition, I used HTML, CSS and lua to create in-game interfaces, advertisements and similar assets.
Read MoreSoul Reaper (2019)
Level Designer
A short contract with a narrow focus - 100 levels spread across 3 biomes, with interconnected routes that required specific unlocks or abilities to access. I handled all level design on this small team, and also added art where assets were required.
Read MoreDuo/Anaana (2019)
Game & Level Designer
Capstone for the Game Level Design course at Sheridan. I handled level and mechanics design in this uzzle game where two characters were controlled with a single controller.
Read MoreOther Work
About Me
I'm a game designer with 7 years of professional game industry experience, where I have served a number design-centric roles and provided mentoring and leadership. I was most recently Lead Game Designer and UX/UI Designer at Zugalu Entertainment where I shipped Hunter's Moon and Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown. In addition, I have 15 years of experience as a professional Web Designer and Graphic Designer, where my work reached millions of people all over the world in both print and digital media.
Gaming and design are my passion - even in my spare time I work on game design! I've put a decade into a mod called FrackinUniverse (over 500,000 users and a player review score of 96%!) while acting as a team lead, and I design content for tabletop gaming such as homebrew mechanics, items, adventures and dungeons.