Kate Noelle, an intro
Kate Noelle, an intro
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Kate is a Game Developer who's done Systems Design for several shipped small scale projects.
Kate has a passion for designing mechanics that evoke specific parts of life while still being enjoyable. Whether it be burnt out & codependent (Turnstyle), awkward & unprepared (Silver Tongue) or overworked & behind schedule (Truckers!!!), she can design for that and more!
In addition, Kate has experience offering feedback and guidance for younger devs and knows how to work with people of various skill levels to help them achieve their goals.
Of note, some of her credits will be under the name Sean Noelle, as she used her middle name for projects for a period of time.
Work experience
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025Work experience
UCSC, Computational Media Department
Teaching Assistant, Games Studio I & II
As a Teaching Assistant for UCSC's Art & Design: Games & Playable Media Capstone, Kate was responsible for facilitating student groups as they proposed and developed capstone projects. She offered feedback and resources when needed to make sure each student project could succeed and assessed their progress at each milestone. She was directly responsible for 6 groups, composed of 30 students total.
Education
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025Education
University of California: Santa Cruz
M.S. in Games and Playable Media
Sep 2017 - Jun 2022
University of California: Santa Cruz
B.A. in Art & Design: Games and Playable Media
While in grad school, Kate designed games with variable sized teams and experimenting in the field of eliciting new emotions. She took the opportunity to experiment with various roles, including Producer and Programmer. She learnt not only skills needed for those fields, but also what materials from systems designers those fields need to effectively do their jobs.
Kate spent her time as an undergrad working on several games projects. She quickly got used to operating in variable size teams and negotiating the work balance and shared design control these projects would necessarily have. Her projects mostly focused on using novel mechanics and systems to elicit various emotional reactions from players.
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