The Elder Scrolls: Castles

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Timeline: 2020 to 2023

Platform: Mobile (iOS and Android)

The Game: from the award-winning developer behind Skyrim and Fallout Shelter, comes The Elder Scrolls®: Castles – a new mobile game that puts you in control of your very own castle and dynasty. Oversee your subjects as the years come and go, families grow, and new rulers take the throne. Tell your story for generations - each day in real life covers the span of an entire year in The Elder Scrolls: Castles. Train your subjects, name heirs, and maintain order to help your kingdom flourish. Will you keep your subjects happy and ensure a long life for their ruler? Or will they grow discontent and plot assassination?

My Contributions

A compelling mobile builder game but with several innovations for the genre, Castles is a unique free-to-play experience on its own right. This game is more than a sim game of building medieval castles, it's a sim game of building dynasties and stories of queens, kings, princes and intrigue. It also has a unique spin of introducing turn-based RPG-like combat in the genre.

BI / Data ScienceProduct & ProductionData & Engineering
  • Data analysis: reports of playtest results and behavior of a limited set of users;
  • Reporting of resource utilization of the build machine and build times, to help maintain productivity of the engineering team;
  • (I left the company before launch, do I didn't get to analyze gameplay of final users.)
  • Design of data tracking: not only I designed all tracker events in the game, but I also worked closely with game engineers to ensure the game client and the game server would share a "single source of truth" when it came to the schema and shape of data;
  • Data visualization and ad-hoc reports of build machine times using AWS Redshift, Redash and Tableau;
  • Data engineering: I architected part of the data pipeline in a way that whenever a game engineer would code the tracker in the game, this change would automatically be reflected in automated documentation and in the data ingestion pipeline itself;

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