Marie Vilain

Producer

Snowcastle, Oslo, Norway

Working on "Ikonei Island : An Earthlock Adventure"

- Managing tasks database (Asana then ClickUp), Monitoring deadlines and deliverables, QA processes, Certification, Localization and Publishing

- Planning, estimating and monitoring sprints, milestones, meetings and workload for a team of ∼40 both remote and on-site, Company Events and Office Management

- Coordinating and planning Live Operations with the team and Publishers (3 total)

- Scheduled to become Senior Producer March 2024

- Ikonei Island was awarded "Game of the Year" at Spillprisen in 2024

Producer

Flatter Than Earth, Remote

Working on "Once Upon a Puppet"

- Implementing tools, creating routines for remote work, setting priorities and milestones

- Planning, estimating and monitoring sprints, meetings, tasks and workload

- Assisting on business development, finding external partners, securing deals, acquiring devkits, improving contracts and processes for invoicing

- Headhunting, interviewing and onboarding, creating hiring plans, ensuring team wellbeing

Game Production Lecturer

Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway

- Responsible for the 2D Game Project module for 1st year students in the Game Design Bachelor

- Responsible for the Pre production module for 3rd year students in the Game Design Bachelor

- Teaching the 1st, 2nd and 3rd years about Agile, Scrum, Production Phases, Team Dynamics, Communication, Playtesting, Bug tracking, Pitching, Documentation in 4hours sessions

- Following and grading their trimester projects and exams

Producer

Land & Sea Ltd, Remote, UK

Working on an unannounced title

- Implementing tools and sprints, creating routines, setting priorities and milestones

- Planning, scheduling and monitoring sprints, tasks and workload for short and long term

- HR : Headhunting, well-being, conflict mediation, team building, event organization

- Managing team's external work on previous IP - merch, QA, porting and release

- Assisting on business development, funding, scoping and budgeting

Producer / Project Manager

Krillbite Studio, Oslo, Norway

Working on "Mosaic" -Released in 2019-

- Managing and scheduling team workload for each member of the team (13)

- Communicating with publisher to plan production according to set milestones

- Leading daily scrum and meetings for art, programming, design, production etc...

- Monitoring weekly testing sessions, logging bugs and missing content

- Following team members' well-being, improving workplace, habits and workflows

Assistant Producer Intern

DONTNOD ELEVEN, Paris, France

Working on "Twin Mirror"

- Keeping both Jira's and physical Scrum boards updated, keeping track of everyone's (43) tasks status and creating job-specific Kanban boards and pipelines

- Constructing job-specific pipelines to evaluate durations, documented on the project's wiki (Confluence) along with all of the game's informations updated daily

- Reporting on all meetings and communicating action points and summaries