Christian Nava

Unannounced Disney Project

Gameplay Engineer III

Designed and prototyped social communication gameplay features in Unreal Engine 5 for a third-person action game, building the UMG front end and a Blueprint quest-tutorial system.

Breakaway

Software Test Engineer

Established a Python test-automation framework validating builds across multiple Amazon Game Studios projects, saving hundreds of hours of manual testing.

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Warcraft Rumble

Senior Software Engineer

Cut new-unit development from 3–4 months to 3–4 weeks and live events from 3–12 weeks to 3–7 days by rebuilding the content pipeline around reusable, data-driven templates, designer-facing authoring tools, and project-wide data standards for naming conventions and file organization.
Owned and extended Warcraft Rumble's core combat simulation, architecting and tuning the abilities, targeting, and unit behaviors behind each new generation of units while balancing readability and responsiveness against complexity.
Designed daily PvP quests, win-streak ladder banding, and subscription-tied rewards, driving a ~10% DAU increase in Warcraft Rumble's highest-ARPPU PvP cohort and a ~20% lift in subscription purchases.
Prototyped and tuned live-event formats as targeted economy sinks, stabilizing Warcraft Rumble's in-game economy while widening the variety of content shipped each season.
Supported designers across the team through complex implementations and day-to-day debugging, providing technical guidance on the combat, content, and tooling systems.

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Hearthstone

Software Engineer

Secondary Game Designer and primary UI Engineer for two flagship Hearthstone features shipped to millions of players on PC and mobile: the 10th class, Demon Hunter, and Duels, a full game mode.
Shipped two off-roadmap Hearthstone features, each from original concept through in-engine prototype, team pitch, and director approval: Infinite Deck Slots, a new monetization surface, and Battlegrounds Parties, which grew the 1v1 challenge system into a full party platform.

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Unannounced Action Game

Technical Designer, Gameplay Programmer

Designed, prototyped, and tuned melee and ranged combat for an unreleased third-person action combat RPG, from abilities and enemy behaviors to encounter interactions.
Designed and authored a modular, event-driven skill system with layered interactions, turning skill, quest, NPC behavior, and puzzle prototyping into a same-day designer workflow.
Designed a dynamic NPC dialog framework that selects contextually from thousands of lines based on live game-world state, driving narrative delivery through open-world content.
Primary internal customer for new engine technology (animation systems, scripting layer, data editor), partnering with engineering to shape and evangelize proprietary tools across the studio.
Owned and extended the unit and spell systems for a mobile deck-building strategy game, designing cards and the tutorial content that teaches each card's mechanics.

Firefall

Technical Designer, Associate Content Designer

Designed and scripted co-op dungeons, raids, and open-world dynamic encounters for Firefall, a PC MMO shooter, authoring enemy combat AI and behaviors, encounter pacing, and difficulty tuning. Also built its arena PvP modes (Team Deathmatch, Jetball, Hunter).
Created the quest team's content backbone in Lua atop legacy editor and data systems, building reusable encounter, objective, and dungeon templates that scaled the team to 500+ fully voiced quests in 4 months and cut content costs studio-wide.
Designed and shipped the open-world PvP zone Broken Peninsula, including PvP quests, bounties, and base upgrading, from concept through playtest feedback, iteration, and polish.

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