Riccardo Lorenzi

I’m Riccardo Lorenzi, a professional game designer with expertise in AI interactions and behavior design. My career includes extensive experience at Milestone/Embracer, where I’ve specialized in gameplay conceptualization, producing design documentation, prototyping, and creating gameplay mechanics. I also focus on balancing and tuning systems to ensure engaging and polished experiences.

Experiences

During my educational years at the Game Design Academia I designed several board games and games.

Game Designer

A small Indie Studio founded by a group of friends closed just before realising its first game.

Game Design Student

Game Designer

Event Horizon (2017-2020)

AllgoRhytm (2018-2019)

Game Designer specializing in AI interactions and behavior design at Milestone, a AAA Development house in which I have contributed to many games.

Milestone (2020-2024)

Publications

Published titles I had the opportunity to develop as Game Designer.

Hotwheels 2
As a Game Designer on Hot Wheels 2, I designed AI interactions across all difficulty levels on various maps. This included crafting pilot behaviors (AI) and the behavior of system obstacles.

RIDE 5
Game designer involved in the gameplay part of the game, I designed ideal trajectory lines for the AI, trained by machine learning and balanced the game

Supercross 5&6
As the Game Designer responsible for the AI system's gameplay, I led a small team to create various driving methods for non-player-controlled pilots from the ground up, starting with the behavior tree.

Monster Jam, Showdown
Ausiliary gameplay designer, I placed the map splines for dressing, AI and level design, and helped the gameplay design team to polish gameplay features

Personal Projects

A renseble of my pet projects, feel free to explore by trying some build!

Tactical RPG

A grid based tactical RPG completely made just by using blueprints in unreal engine 5.0.

Roguelike Card game

A roguelike deck-building card game where players must make strategic choices to achieve victory, inspired by games like Dominion and Slay the Spire