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a short presentation

I'm the owner of this site, and my name is Åsa Roos. I was born in -73, and this is a short presentation of me. If you're looking for a CV, you can find it in the right hand column. It's available in PDF-format. Please mail me at asa (at) devilkitten (dot) se if you'd like it in any other format.

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education

My education has been both practical and theoretical. I started with textile crafts and silver smithing, and being encouraged by my silver smithing teacher, I started as an industrial design student in Lund at LTH.

My internship and my gaming interest combined in my Master's Thesis, Role-playing on mobile platforms.

On top of that, I've taken some short courses in among other things, project management, game design and creativity.

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career

The large part of my professional life has been spent developing games of different kinds, and the time I haven't spent developing, I've spent educating others about game design.

My first job was at Picofun, where I also wrote my Master's Thesis. I worked at Picofun as a copywriter, project manager, game designer and a lot more. After that I ended up with UDS as a level designer for a platform game called The Kore Gang. It was never published, since the company was made bankrupt. Between UDS and Sulake OY, which was my next game design job, I worked a short period as a high school teacher in digital product development at Portalens Gymnasium.

The team behind Cute n' Clever, from the left, K-A Johansson, Åsa Roos, Paul Blomdahl,
Mike Wells, Per Gustafsson and Andreas Alptun. As Goffs. Drawing: Paul Blomdahl, Coloring: Mike Wells
 

I was headhunted for the job as game designer at Sulake Oy, and I worked there for two years. I was promoted from game designer to senior game designer while working there. The project I worked on was Habbo Islands for the N-Gage platform. I did both the game and the level design. I also wrote all the texts and specs that were needed for the game.

Back in Sweden I worked as content manager and usability designer at Terraplay AB. My work there mostly involved quality assurance and distribution of other publishers and developers games. I also compiled gaming catalogues that were used with specific operators. Moreover I also helped develop the community solution that Terraplay offered.

After Terraplay, I spent one and a half year at Avalanche Studios as a game designer, where I among other things worked on a cancelled project and as world designer at Just Cause 2. I also got my SCRUM certificate while working at Avalanche.

At the moment, I'm working at Movinto Fun with the small Movement Companion, the BodyBug®.

I've also been mentioned in the IT-24 article about the ten most powerful women in the Swedish gaming business 2006.

Regents of Ismay - elements
Mike Wells
 

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my own time

When I'm not working - which is, let's face it, a big part of my life - I spend a lot of time writing and crafting. My writing takes the shape of among other things adventures for different role-playing games, in poetru (admittedly not that good poetry) and in blogs.

The blogs and the poetry is often a way to unload confusion and anxiety, which is why these emotions are often common in both blogs and poetry. My advernture are however written all the time. I have a moleskine book or a whitelines pad and a pilot G-1 grip 0.5 pen with me wherever I go. If I should forget them, I find a scrap of paper to write on. My ideas are around all the time, and I can't live without my note pad.

I also watch a lot of movies, both good and bad. I can find something in almost everything, although I prefer if the movies are intelligent.

When I'm not writing, watching movies or crafting, I read books. I read on average one book a week, sometimes more, sometimes less. It's a mix of fiction and facts, and often I read more than one book at a time.

A lot of what I intend to write in the future when it comes to books and materials for role-playing games, will be published on my sister site discordia.se. Discordia is however not as personal or comprehensive as devilkitten.se

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friends and family

I'm not the only one in exstence on the web, and I do interact with other people. I have friends and family that also net around. The ones I know that are willing to share of themselves, their charm and their knowledge and creations are listed here. It might be worth looking.

Illustration from Samhain by the author

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