Harrison Bolin
Game Producer and Designer
Boulder, CO
Game Producer and Designer
Boulder, CO
My name is Harrison Bolin, I am a game producer and designer who is passionate about creating engaging and wholesome experiences. I come from a background in web development, games journalism, and professional IT where I learned how to effectively communicate in technical projects, what it means to work in the games industry, and how to work in an Agile team.
When I am not working you might catch me developing my game side-projects, streaming on Twitch, writing sci-fi short stories, reading a new book, learning how to play the electric bass, or doing yoga.
I live in beautiful Boulder, Colorado and am looking for a full-time role in games production starting May 2021. I currently work doing web development with the wonderful people at TEEM Marketing in Denver, CO.
In The Intern, you play as the titular intern where your job is to complete a variety of tasks from giving presentations, making coffee, and running errands. Your boss is also out to get you and has a penchant for breaking things around the office, which you'll be in charge of fixing. The goal is to complete as many tasks before the workday ends, hopefully scoring enough points to keep your job!
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Made for the May SDC Game Jam, Magic Bookshop is an arcade game where the player controls a magicians apprentice tasked with restocking the shelves of the bookshop before opening. Challenge is controlled by randomly moving colored bookshelves that corespond to a randomly colored book given to the player. Three different difficulties, high scores, fanciful magical surroundings, sound effects, menu screens, and an entire 16 note song!
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As my final project for my "Tiny Games" class, a class focused on self-imposed restrictions while developing games to provoke creativity, I decided to create a shoot-em-up with the then emergent pandemic as the theme. Through building this game I stretched my coding ability to create dynamic enemies, projectiles, and multiple levels of difficulty as the game progressed. Built in Pico-8, all the code, graphics, and sound was created my me!
Read MoreFor our final project in my game design class, we were tasked with using what we had learned to create a game that could be played physically or remote. Going through an intense iterative process where my team of four rapidly tried and tested new concepts, we landed on a game that combined mechanics from popular party games like Taboo and The Characters Game and features movies as the theme. I built a React app to facilitate the various functions of the game. If we were to keep expanding this, it would be great add networking and allow the app to lead the game instead of requiring a player to manage the game.
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While working as the lead web developer for TEEM, it came time to refresh the website. I chose to migrate the site to a more flexible platform and base theme, Divi, in order to allow the company to quickly adjust their own site to update client lists, blog posts, and other pages. The biggest change was overhauling the portfolio pages, which I also designed to better convert and hold engagement. These changes led to better site conversions and tens of thousands of dollars worth of leads for TEEM!
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As the historic Baur's Candy Factory building in Denver was getting ready to launch a co-working space, they worked with TEEM Marketing where I led the development of this project. This site features a fully-custom Wordpress theme, custom interactive Google Maps, and a wonderfully quirky design. The main challenges with this site were keeping up with quickly changing client needs, and integrating several pieces of specialty software into the site.
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I am currently looking for a job in games production starting in May 2021. If you have a position you're looking to fill and think I might be a good fit, don't hesitate to reach out!
I live in beautiful Boulder, Colorado where I currently work doing web development with the wonderful people at TEEM Marketing in Denver, CO.
Phone: 719-323-9573
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Associates of General Studies
Pikes Peak Community College - May 2017
Bachelors of Creative Technology and Design
University of Colorado Boulder - May 2021