Heath Smith

Background

About Heath Smith

View my portfolio: I am a Game Designer with 17+ years’ experience in the video games industry at some of the top studios in North America and Australia. My passions are leadership, mentoring and immersive design. As a leader, my strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills ensure features are embraced by all departments and designers become the best they can be. My joy is helping to define a vision, share it, empowering the team to make it better – and celebrating when they do. As a designer, I am always striving for excellence in four core areas – the creativity to look beyond cliché but keep the audience in mind, immersion in the player experience, excellent communication, and the attention to detail to see features through to the end. I also find great satisfaction in helping others to define and clarify their vision via my consulting work. I strongly believe in passionate, collaborative discourse and checking ego at the door to make the best games possible. Note: I am a dual Australian (by birth) and Canadian (citizen by naturalization) citizen.