Dunaevskiy Yaroslav
Producer, PM
Only chaos can bring the order.
Experience: 24 years
Team management experience: 15 years
Experience in game industry: 3 years
Game experience: 35 years
dunayj@gmail.com Experience: 24 years
Team management experience: 15 years
Experience in game industry: 3 years
Game experience: 35 years
Projects delivered for major clients before gamedev
Organized outsourced warehouse logistics and managed cellular network construction projects.
Сoordinated material supply projects and managed cellular network construction.
Led a deployment project for emergency power systems based on diesel generators.
Managed a digital television deployment program in the Perm region.
Gamedev work experience
Producer/
Project Manager
Project Manager
Lead Narrative Designer /
Project Manager
Project Manager
Lead Scriptwriter &
Narrative Designer
Narrative Designer
Scriptwriter &
Narrative Designer
Narrative Designer
Producer / Scriptwriter &
Narrative Designer
Narrative Designer
Game projects as Producer/PM
The Golden Horde Forgotten Stories
Visual Novel
Producer / Project Manager / Narrative designer
Narrative & Content
Narrative & Content
- Developed lore, plot, characters, dialogues, and narrative elements
- Created documentation, GDD sections, and trailer/cut-scene specifications
- Coordinated 3D, 2D, music, illustration, and VFX tasks
- Worked with translators to localize narrative and UI content
- Supervised 3D and development pipelines
- Managed team workflows, communication, and task tracking
- Coordinated onboarding and HR-related processes
- Oversaw game publishing tasks
- Supported marketing activities and trailer production
Guardian of Altai
3D Box-shooter with Roguelite elements
Project manager / Narrative designer
Narrative & Content:
Narrative & Content:
- Developed lore, plot, characters, dialogues, and narrative systems
- Created documentation, GDD sections, and cut-scene specifications
- Coordinated music, illustration, art tasks, and localization
- Managed team workflows and communication
- Coordinated marketing activities
- Supervised game publishing process
Atomic raid
3D Retro-style Arcade
Producer / Project Manager / Narrative designer
Narrative & Content
Narrative & Content
- Developed lore, plot, characters, dialogues, and narrative elements
- Created documentation, GDD sections, and trailer/cut-scene specifications
- Coordinated 3D, 2D, music, illustration, and VFX tasks
- Worked with translators to localize narrative and UI content
- Supervised 3D and development pipelines
- Managed team workflows, communication, and task tracking
- Coordinated onboarding and HR-related processes
- Oversaw game publishing tasks
- Supported marketing activities and trailer production
Steam (in development, pre-alpha, demo available)
Raw hard
2,5D resource management with sport rhytm
Producer / Project Manager / Narrative designer
Narrative & Content
Narrative & Content
- Supervised documentation, lore, plot, and narrative elements
- Oversaw GDD sections and feature specifications
- Coordinated 3D/Dev pipeline tasks related to story and gameplay
- Reviewed and shaped character concepts and narrative structure
- Managed team workflows and cross-department communication
- Coordinated onboarding and HR processes
- Structured task tracking and daily production pipelines
- Oversaw game publishing preparation
- Supported marketing activities and content delivery
Kolodeznik
3D Top-down arcade with narrative elements
Project Manager / Narrative designer
Narrative & Content
Narrative & Content
- Developed narrative documentation
- Designed game mechanics
- Created lore, plot, and characters
- Wrote dialogues and replica lines
- Designed narrative elements and visual storytelling
- Created tasks for artists, sound designers, and programmers
- Prepared specifications and task briefs
- Coordinated content pipelines (art, sound, gameplay)
- Managed narrative implementation and in-game integration
- Assisted with menu structure and UX logic
- Replicas implementation
- Menu creation
- Team communication and task coordination
Sigil of Chaos
2,5D Dungeon Crawler
Project Manager / Narrative designer
Narrative & Content:
Narrative & Content:
- Developed documentation, lore, plot, characters, and narrative systems
- Created dialogues, narrative elements, and quest structure
- Prepared specifications for art, music, and visual elements
- Created tasks for artists, sound designers, and programmers
- Managed development, art, and music pipelines
- Coordinated team workflows and communication
- Oversaw onboarding & HR coordination
- Handled task tracking and milestone planning
- Supported marketing activities
Participated in the development:
Pet-projeсts
Game Jams
Tabletop role-playing games
Education
Strategic Communications:
1. Approaches
2. Team
3. Scaling
1. Approaches
2. Team
3. Scaling
Art for videogames:
1. Pixel art
2. Composition
3. Animation
1. Pixel art
2. Composition
3. Animation
Project Manager:
1. Project Planning & Initiation
2. Agile и Scrum
3. Task & Team Management
1. Project Planning & Initiation
2. Agile и Scrum
3. Task & Team Management
UI/UX:
1. Aesthetics and functionality
2. Compositional interaction
3. Interface elements
1. Aesthetics and functionality
2. Compositional interaction
3. Interface elements
Video editing:
1. Editing basics
2. Cuts & Transitions
3. Visual Storytelling
1. Editing basics
2. Cuts & Transitions
3. Visual Storytelling
Final Cut Pro:
1. Editing & Timeline
2. Color Grading
3. Sound & Export
1. Editing & Timeline
2. Color Grading
3. Sound & Export
Narrative design:
1. World building
2. Character design
3. Narrative
1. World building
2. Character design
3. Narrative
Marketing manager:
1. Marketing strategy
2. Game promotion
3. Analysys
1. Marketing strategy
2. Game promotion
3. Analysys
Product management:
1. Product vision
2. Evaluation methods
3. User-Centricity
1. Product vision
2. Evaluation methods
3. User-Centricity
Game design:
1. Gaming history
2. Gameplay mechanics
3. Unity
1. Gaming history
2. Gameplay mechanics
3. Unity
Game design:
1. MDA Framework
2. Gameplay mechanics
3. User experience
1. MDA Framework
2. Gameplay mechanics
3. User experience
Accelerator:
1. Game development
2. Business development
3. Investment management
1. Game development
2. Business development
3. Investment management
Game producer:
1. Team management
2. Marketing
3. Documentation
1. Team management
2. Marketing
3. Documentation
Narrative Design:
1. Game scriptwriting
2. Narrative Design
3. Game Design
1. Game scriptwriting
2. Narrative Design
3. Game Design
Accelerator:
1. Game development
2. Narrative
3. Investment management
1. Game development
2. Narrative
3. Investment management
Narrative Gamedesign:
1. Game scriptwriting
2. Documentaition management
1. Game scriptwriting
2. Documentaition management
Scriptwriting and gamedesign:
1. Game scriptwriting
2. Dialog and quest system
3. Narrative design
1. Game scriptwriting
2. Dialog and quest system
3. Narrative design
Digital marketing:
1. Target audience
2. Organic marketing
3. Paid marketing
1. Target audience
2. Organic marketing
3. Paid marketing
Creative Writing:
1. Description
2. Storytelling
3. Dialogues
1. Description
2. Storytelling
3. Dialogues
Copywriter:
1. Info style
2. Copywriting
3. Pictures and text
1. Info style
2. Copywriting
3. Pictures and text
Visual media:
1. Graphics and design
2. Visual perception
3. Сontemporary art
1. Graphics and design
2. Visual perception
3. Сontemporary art
English:
1. Grammar
2. Dialogues
3. Descriptions
1. Grammar
2. Dialogues
3. Descriptions
Psychologist:
1. Сognitive psychology
2. Personal psychology
3. Behavioral psychology
1. Сognitive psychology
2. Personal psychology
3. Behavioral psychology
Awards and Certificates
Publications & Interviews (Ru, click to see more)
VideoInterview:
Using AI to Develop Video Games
Using AI to Develop Video Games
Video Course:
Lectures for the “GameDev Hero” online program
Lectures for the “GameDev Hero” online program
Interview:
About the development of Guardian of Altai
About the development of Guardian of Altai
Article:
Guardian of Altai and regional game development
Guardian of Altai and regional game development
Article:
Game development in Uzbekistan
(Author — published via studio CEO)
Game development in Uzbekistan
(Author — published via studio CEO)
Article:
What exactly are video games?
(Author — published via studio CEO)
What exactly are video games?
(Author — published via studio CEO)
Skills
- Game production pipeline knowledge
- Game design (systems, balance, prototyping)
- Narrative design (plot, quests, dialogue systems)
- Project management (planning, roadmaps, milestones)
- Task tracking & workflow setup
- Agile methodologies (Scrum & Kanban)
- Marketing support (store pages, trailers, teasers, festivals, SMM)
- Familiarity with Steam pipeline & release process
- Video editing for trailers (FCP, Adobe tools)
- Understanding of art & asset pipelines (3D/2D basics)
- 3D modeling (Blender/Maya basics)
- Pixel art graphics & animation: sprites, tilesets, frame-by-frame animation, basic VFX
- Team leadership
- Clear organization of documents & workflows
- Strong time-management
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Communication & collaboration skills
- Problem-solving under pressure
- Conflict-resolution
- Decision-making in unclear situations
- Responsibility and ownership
Core Tools
- Miro
- draw.io
- Google Docs / Sheets
- Cheetah3D
- GitHub
- GitVerse
- TortoiseSVN
- PureRef
- Tilda
2D & 3D
- Aseprite
- Photoshop
- Blender
- Maya
- Canva
Engines & Narrative Tools
- Twine
- Articy: Draft 3
- Unreal Engine
- Unity
- Ren’Py
Documentation & Task Tracking
- Trello
- Kaiten
- Slab
- Slite
- YouTrack
- Notion
- ClickUp
- Asana
- Russian C2
- English C1
- Italian A2
- Turkish A2
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
- GigaChat
- Gemini
- Deepseek
- Midjourney
- Nano Banana Pro
- FLUX.2
- SeeDream
- Runway
- Suno
- Gamma
