Rasmus Harr

My career is focusing on video game design, especially gameplay design of MMOs and RPGs.

Currently I am employed at Funcom working on the MMO The Secret World.

Rasmus Harr’s Specialties:

MMO and RPG Gameplay Design, Writing, Agile Project Management

Rasmus Harr’s Experience

Senior Game Designer

Funcom

(Public Company; FUNCOM.OL; Computer Games industry)

November 2009 — Present (3 months)

Creating content for Funcom's upcoming MMORPG, The Secret World, including:

- Design and implementation of gameplay and encounters
- Design and implementation of missions
- Monster designs
- Design of social mechanics for hubs
- Training of junior designers

Primary focus: Playfields and social hubs
Gameplay Designer

Funcom

(Public Company; Computer Games industry)

September 2008 — November 2009 (1 year 3 months)

Quest design and implementation
Gameplay progression design and implementation
General MMO world population
PhD-stipendiate

IT University of Copenhagen

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

September 2007 — August 2008 (1 year )

My PhD-project was about educational video game design, decided after a year to go back to development rather than research.
Advisor

Oplevelsesiværksætteren

(Computer Games industry)

September 2007 — November 2007 (3 months)

This course covered most aspects on starting up a company in the games industry, and the participants write a business plan, a budget, and an IR-plan during the course.
Development Manager

Pollux Gamelabs

(Privately Held; Machinery industry)

March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)

Responsibility: Key Account Management, development management using XP and Scrum. Developed budget and business plan.
Team size: 12
Production time: 1 year
Credited title: Lost Empire: Immortals (development manager)
Game Designer

Pollux Gamelabs

(Privately Held; Machinery industry)

April 2006 — March 2007 (1 year )

Did concept development, prototyping, documentation, and worked closely with programmers and artists in the preproduction of Pollux Gamelabs' third title, SpinWars.
Game Designer

Danish National Academy of Digital Interactive Entertainment

(Computer Games industry)

2005 — 2006 (1 year )
Freelance Journalist

PCPlayer

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)

March 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 10 months)

Reviewing computergames and writing feature articles on computer game culture
Producer

Sunrise Productions

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

September 2000 — December 2003 (3 years 4 months)

Evaluating manuscripts, editing, external communication
Freelance Journalist

Microsoft

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Games industry)

September 2000 — February 2003 (2 years 6 months)

Reviewing computer games for the danish Microsoft website

Rasmus Harr’s Education

IT-Universitetet i København

MA , Multimedia Technology , 2007

My thesis at the IT-University of Copenhagen was about concept development of computer games. Particularly how the game designer can widen the target audience of a given game concept by letting the game cater for both toyplay and goalplay by regulating game mechanics.
DADIU - role: Game Designer

Game Designer , Computer Game Production , 2005 — 2006

Was Game Designer on:
Production 1: The Clutches of Rottenstein
Production 2: Grogg: Terrifying Tales of the Man-Ape
Københavns Universitet

BA , Film- and Media Science , 2000 — 2004
Mulernes Legatskole

Additional Information

Rasmus Harr’s Websites:

My Company

Rasmus Harr’s Interests:

music (classical and electronica), diving, jogging, swimming, reading novels, films, writing, composing, game theory, Agile Development particularly in the form of Scrum and XP, games and learning