HARRISON BOLIN
Seattle/PST

Gameplay, Systems, & Economy Designer

Howdy! My name is Harrison and I’ve been designing games professionally for over 5 years. I’ve worked on titles including Forza Motorsport (2023), Forza Horizon 5, multiple mobile titles, and my own game Dungeon Bodega Sim. 

With my experience in economy, level, systems, and gameplay design I can quickly adapt to your team’s design needs. Making incredible games that delight players is my goal, and I am currently open for work!

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Skills:
  • Level Design
  • System Design
  • Economy Design
  • Narrative Design
  • Unreal Engine
  • Unity Engine
  • Godot
  • Lua
  • C++ / C#
  • Prototyping
  • Pico-8
  • Notion
  • Jira
  • JS & TypeScript
  • Adobe Apps
  • Affinity Apps
  • Arduino
  • Playtesting



01 FORZA MOTORSPORT (2023)

I was the game economy designer ahead of launch, creating data models and designing player reward systems. Post launch I designed, organized, and implemented new live features, singleplayer & multiplayer events, and quests for our live releases.

Won Best Racing Game and Best Accessibility from The Game Awards, and Racing Game of the Year at the DICE awards in 2023. Nominated for a Golden Joystick and BAFTA.
 Racing

Xbox
PC

AAA Team

2023-2025



02 FORZA HORIZON 5 (PS5)

To enable Forza Horizon to go cross-platform I designed systems including friend/invite functionality, UGC content reporting, and 3rd party login flows. I created mockups and UX/UI flows, then advised engineering and art teams leading up to release.

Won Best Audio Design, Innovation in Accessibility, Best Racing Game at TGA 2021. Won a BAFTA, Steam Award, and DICE Award in 2022. PS5 release was the second best selling game of April 2025. Racing

PS5
Xbox
PC

AAA Team

2025

03 DUNGEON BODEGA SIMULATOR

Simulation game where players own a dungeon shop, farm supplies, and raise cute slimes! Built as a way to stay in practice with scripting but also a chance to flex my level, systems, and narrative design skills.

As the mostly-solo dev I’ve handled the level design, NPC scripting, game design, and all other development, while utilizing pre-built assets for the art.

Shipped to Steam March 2026

Press: Best of Next Fest Oct 2025 Simulation

PC

Small Team

2025

04 MINECRAFT LIVE PVP EXPERIENCE

To practice LiveOps experiences, PvP combat design, and level design, I created a dynamic arena and hosted 6 weeks of updates and tournaments!

The project featured evolving loot tables, level updates throughout the season, and player feedback requests. Click here for the breakdown!

LiveOps

PC

Solo dev

2021

05 MEOW WOLF

As part of a 10 person team I worked on an exhibit for Meow Wolf Denver: Convergence Station. For my part and relative to games, I wrote narrative for our characters, designed puzzles for exhibit guests to solve, and wrote documentation for us and our partners.

I also did a lot of physical fabrication for this job, learned how to create concrete forms using 3D printing and put together robotic fish for the aquariums.Narrative

In-person exhibit

10 person team

2020-2021



06 VR ENVIRONMENTS 

Using Unity and C# I built six different game environments for VRChat. These worlds are fully interactable with mini-games, player responsive features, baked lighting and more!

Built for fun, these were great exersizes in level, environment, and general game design skills. These worlds have been visited over 28,000 times by players in VRChat.

Read More: VR Level Design ShowcaseSocial

VR / PC
Quest
Mobile

Solo Dev

2022-2025

Click for additional work including Mobile Games, Game Jams, ARGs, and student projects

06 PORTALS 3D! - Mobile 

Designed 30+ levels for a mobile portal-based puzzle game while I worked at a hypercasual studio. Worked with an outsourcing studio as the design lead on the project while also authoring the levels using the Unity editor and Houdini.

Pitched the original concept, created design documents for each level and the overall game, led meetings and syncs with the team, and made adjustments based off of KPIs and analytics.
 Puzzle

Mobile
Unity

Small Team

2021


07 HYPER-CASUAL WORK

While working at a hyper-casual stusio I pitched 3-5 original mobile game concepts and wrote 2-3 one-page game design documents for new mobile games each week. 

I’d then work with an outsourcing studio and a producer to create a prototype, provide feedback to the engineering teams, and use internal KPIs and data to track how well these prototypes tested.
Mobile

Small Team

2021


08 GAME JAMS

Participated in several game jams creating small games in Unity, Godot, and Pico-8 as a way to keep up my game development skills.

I also host an annual game jam online, with the 2025 iteration having 180+ participants and 36 game submissions! For this event I streamed game dev tutorials, provided support, and also developed my own games with a small team.
PC
Web

Solo Dev

2019-2025


09 PROJECT BUFFALO

Project Buffalo is an alternative reality game that asks players to become digital archeologists as they comb through websites and discover the mystery within. 

For this project, we created 3 websites, recorded a podcast, planted physical and digital clues, and wrote over 15000 words of story. My primary focus was on game design, but I also led the web design, project management, and audio production.
Web
ARG
Podcast

Small team

2021

10 STUDENT WORK

The Intern: 3D Unity game, led game design, production, and  development with a team of 4.

Pandemic Relief: Pixel Pico-8 shoot-em-up, solo dev doing all the coding, art, and music.

Liv.e Online: Narrative game taking place using a fictional operating system exploring themes of isolation and connection on the internet.

Pinball Machine: Hand built using an Arduino controller to manage gameplay and display the player’s score. Unity
Pico-8
Bitsy
Twine

Solo and teams

2017-2021