Keian,
Karthi

I design games that are worth getting lost in.

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My background is in architecture. Three years studying how people move through space, how environments communicate purpose before a single word is spoken, how scale and light create atmosphere.I took that training and immediately applied it to the problem I'd been ignoring in favor of studio critiques: How do you design a space that a player wants to explore?

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The answer I keep coming back to is the same one architecture taught me. Readability first. A player — like a person in a building — should be able to read a space before they understand it.

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I work in Unreal Engine 5 and currently have four original game projects in active development, ranging from a dying-world narrative RPG (UKoR) to a medieval Indian Ocean faction-reactivity system (Koel) to a rhythm-combat detective game set in a hyper-saturated Himalayan city (First Springs). Two have playable demos targeting IGDC 2026 in Chennai.

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I'm looking for a game design role — level, narrative, or systems — at an AA or indie studio building story-driven experiences. Open to remote and relocation.