Self-Introduction
An enthusiastic Game Designer:
Yi-Jen (Ross) Lin is a professional game designer with a wide diversity of different talents, such as drawing and composing, which support him to communicate with artist and musician. He always thinks about how to produce creative ideas for making the game play fun and unique. He has a quick turnaround and willing to brainstorm all kinds of games. Every time when Yi-Jen has a chance to design the game play for a project, he always feels so excited that he can’t fall asleep quickly. When he really focus on brainstorming the ideas, he doesn’t eat much and usually sit in front of computer for all the day. His philosophy is “Use minimum elements to create maximum possibilities.” He likes to write the level design document first, do prototyping on paper, and print out a actually board game layout to get target audience to play test. Yi-Jen thinks play testing is the most important thing in the producing process because the feedbacks will reflect the players’ tastes and feelings directly. He thinks that today most of the games equip with fantastic graphics but not fun. He hopes he can improve this situation one day and go back to his home country, benefit Taiwan’s game industry as well.
Born with a high art talent:
His artistic talent has further strengthened his motivation to devote himself to the game industry. Without any formal academic Fine Art education, Yi-Jen started drawing at the age of six, teaching himself to sketch, watercolor, draw cartoons, and create promotion posters. He is capable to accomplish all the kinds of concept drawing, such as character, monster, environment design. He is able to use digital software such as After Effect, Anime Studio, and Flash to produce 2D animation. Besides, he is able to support textures for 3D models. Yi-Jen also loves story writing, which makes him enjoy very much.
A musician as a Singer, Composer and Arranger:
Yi-Jen Lin have 10+ year live concert performance experience. He is a singer, pianist, and able to compose original sound tracks. After graduation, he work on his first professional album under the guidance of professor Betsy Lawrence and Riccardo at Carnegie Mellon University.
Strong Computer Science background:
Yi-Jen Lin completed his bachelor degree of Computer Science at Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. He mainly work on C/ C++. During his master degree in Carnegie Mellon University, he took Game Programming to learn how to work with OpenGL, ODE library, and AI algorithm. Therefore he is able to communicate with programmers easily.
Good communication in teamwork:
Yi-Jen is talkative, positive and willing to communicate with either his client or teammates. He respects everyone’s opinion. He is confident his art skills, composition, and programming knowledge will support/ communicate easily with his teammates. Eventually, all of his talents will contribute to his level design, project and company, making himself very useful and reliable in the game industry.