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Emmi Kärnä

Game Designer

Non-digital games

Escape Room games

When

2015-2019

Where

Various physical locations: Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Tampere, Turku, Pori, Oulu, Lappeenranta

What

I spend 4,5 years with Mysteeri, from its birth to the day when we sold the business. During that time I founded the company with my partner, recruited +70 people and designed, directed and produced +20 escape games to different physical environments. The games worked in the same narrative universe and were linked in various different ways.

My responsibilities

    • Lead game design
      • Designed game rooms, puzzles and lead a team of other game designers, game documentation, game testing and focus group interviews, game host training
    • Lead narrative design
      • Designed narrative progression in games, character design, wrote in-game texts, scripts, and dialogue into various different formats, directed actors, research, meta-story design, marketing texts
    • Lead level design
      • Game progression, spacial planning, game flow
    • Production
      • Production design, scheduling, team’s work time management, resource management, service design, product design
    • Head of the marketing team
      • Designed game launch and other marketing campaigns, copywrote, wrote, filmed and edited marketing videos, brand design and management, PR, web design for various sites
    • Art
      • Logo design, print design
    • B2B game product design
      • Time and resource budgeting, offers, negotiations, subcontracting, facilitation, team leadership
    • Entrepreneur
      • Business development, strategy, public speaking, recruitment, job interviews, leadership

Work samples

    • www.mysteeri.com
    • www.mysteeripelit.fi
    • Gameplay video of one of my escape rooms, which was designed and built first to Kuopio 2015 and then transferred into Jyväskylä in 2016.

Jaskan pubi escape room

 

Related Projects

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Murder mystery in Palander House Museum

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Mystery game of Linnanmäki

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