HARRISON BOLINSeattle/PST
Howdy! My name is Harrison and I’m a game designer with 4 years of professional industry experience.
I’ve worked on titles including Forza Motorsport (2023), Forza Horizon 5, and multiple mobile games.
With my experience in economy, level, systems, and narrative 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!
Email
LinkedIn
Bluesky
Skills:
- System Design
- Economy Design
- Narrative Design
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Level Design
- Unity Engine
- Lua
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C++ / C#
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Playtesting
- Prototyping
- Agile
- Kanban
- Pico-8
- Notion
- Jira
- HTML/CSS/JS
- Adobe Apps
- Affinity Apps
- Arduino
Other work I've done:
- Worked with a team to create an art installation for Meow Wolf Denver
- Wrote an article for Atlas Obscura
- Wrote a narrative game in Twine about sunny summer days
- Created a cosmic horror narrative game
- Designed maps, gameplay, and hosted for Minecraft Hunger Games sessions
- Collaborated with a team and a local artist to build a sculpture that raised air quality awareness
- Created a haptic metronome.
01 FORZA MOTORSPORT (2023)
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.
I was the principle economy designer ahead of launch, creating data models and designing player reward systems. Post launch I designed, organized, and implemented content for our live releases.
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Racing
Xbox
PC
AAA Team
02 FORZA HORIZON 5 (PS5)
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.
To enable Forza Horizon to go cross-platform I helped design systems including friend/invite functionality, UGC content reporting, and 3rd party login flows.
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Racing
PS5
Xbox
PC
AAA Team
03 ISOPALZ
Built in Godot, Isopalz is a simulation game where players interact with, raise, and take care of cute little isopods! Built as a way to stay in practice with scripting but also a chance to flex my systems and narrative design skills.
As part of a two person team I’ve handled the design, development, and production of this product while my team-mate has handled the art and art direction.
Read moreSimulation
PC
2 person team
04 VR ENVIRONMENTS
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Read moreSocial
VR / PC
Quest
Solo Dev
05 PORTALS 2D - Mobile
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Puzzle
Mobile
Small Team
06 HYPER-CASUAL WORK
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Read moreMobile
Small Team
07 GAME JAM GAMES
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Read morePC
Web
Solo Dev
08 PROJECT BUFFALO
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ARG
Podcast
Small team
09 STUDENT WORK
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Read moreUnity
Pico-8
Bitsy
Twine
Solo Work