# Nikhil Kashyap

> Senior Game Designer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikhilkashyap

Nikhil has been fortunate to work across a variety of game genres including RGPs (EA/Cliffhanger), Cozy Sims (Palia), Action Adventure (Sony), VR (Meta) and Simulation (Maxis). I specialize in systems design, design and product leadership with a technical focus in Unreal Engine.

In my free time, I'm a writer, filmmaker and published author : https://nikhilkashyap1990.weebly.com/interactive-narrative.html

Thanks for stopping by and feel free to send me a message. Whether you're a designer/storyteller looking to talk shop, a startup founder looking to bounce ideas of someone, or a recruiter looking to hire amazing talent, I'd love to hear from you.

https://nikhilkashyap1990.weebly.com/portfolio.html

## Work Experience
### Senior Game Designer @ Maxis Studios - EA
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Game Designer @ Electronic Arts (EA)
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Open World Black Panther RPG
- Systems Design : Design and prototype core game systems like scanning, corruption clearing and combat objects.
- Mission Design : Design and implement missions and gameplay activities and populate the open world with gameplay and narrative.
- AI Design : Implement scripted behaviors for NPCs and wildlife and drive underlying systems with engineering.

### Senior Game Designer @ Singularity 6
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Housing and Neighborhood Product Lead for Palia
- Make your home uniquely yours by decorating and customizing your space with hundreds of craftable items.
- Product Lead : Manage multidisciplinary team roadmap and execution of Palia’s marquee Housing features.
- Game Design : Design expressive cozy sim features evolving Housing as a key social bet to fit the MMO genre.

### Game Designer - Horizon Worlds @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Burlingame, California, United States
Horizon Worlds

Action RPG : Diamond Defense
-  Enemy design and progression systems for wave based ARPG. Creation template for UGC.

Personal Space : Your Home in the Metaverse
- Home personalization through object placements, quest and embodied reward core loop, partitioning and expansion systems.
- Gardening sims with magical plant and animal interactions for the player’s home.

### Game Designer @ PlayStation
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Mateo
Concrete Genie (June 2017 – October 2019)
- Narrative VR Experience focused on making players feel like an artist through "3D Painting" 
- Designed and implemented 3D painting interactions narrative progression systems.

Unannounced PS5 Game : Action Adventure Title (October 2019 – December 2021)
- Collaboration with Sony Pictures Animation on major IP
- Managed a multidisciplinary pod leading gameplay features.
- Implemented 15-20 week long prototypes, exploring puzzle and combat mechanics.
- Worked with narrative design to develop an NPC Buddy System.

### Experience Designer @ Disney Research
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
-> Interaction Design for Disney Theme Park Experiences using RFID physical objects

### Product Designer @ Oculus VR
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
->VR Tools and Workflow: Unity plugins assisting prototyping and interactive design in 3D space
->VR Feeds : An exploration of what a news feed looks like in VR

### Game Designer @ Disney Interactive
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
-> Isles of War - Pirates of the Caribbean MMO RTS Game


## Education
### Masters in Entertainment Technology in Entertainment Technology
Carnegie Mellon University

### BE in Information Science
PESIT


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikhil-kashyap-a8928a44

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Last updated: 2026-04-13