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Sandra Niziolek alias Aki
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WHO AM I?
Sandra Niziolek
I am 33 years old and live in Berlin. I study game design at Games Academy and love to develop video games, focusing on game design and digital art. I discovered my passion for game development in 2017, when I started with some personal projects. I am highly motivated and want to create video games with USPs. My goal is to turn my passion into my profession.
Edited MAR 2025
MY PASSION
GAME DESIGN
I study game design at Games Academy Berlin (2024-2025) with a lot of passion to start a professional career in the games industry.
Interests:
- Feature Design
- Level Design
- UI Design
- UX Design
- Narrative Design
- Writing GD Related Documents
- QA
- …
Game Engines (so far):
- Unity
DIGITAL GAME ART
I enjoy creating 2D and 3D assets that fit to specific design.
Interests:
- 3D (Creatures, Low Poly, Props, Stylized, Cute)
- 2D (UI)
- Animations
- Texturing
Tools:
- Photoshop, Blender, Substance Painter
EVENTS & MEDIA DESIGN
Besides game design, I organize events for family, friends and partners. I am also highly interested in creating media design related content.
Interests:
- Event Planning/Events for Gamer/Game Devs
- Creating: Poster, Flyers, Business Cards, Trailers
Tools:
- Blender, Vegas Studio
GAME DESIGN
& Digital Art
Personal Projects
Bunny Hop
- 2017/2019
- First 2D-Game
- Concept, Level Design, UI/UX-Design,
2D Art
Easy concept but a lot of fun! Just draw a line and let your chosen Jumper bounce. But don’t call it easy! Here comes the tricky part. Avoid obstacles, traps and enemies. You will have a hard time, but addiction warranted.
The Voice Inside
- 2019-2021 (Demo)
- Voice-Command Feature, UI Design, Level Design, Narrative Design, UX Design, 3D and 2D Art
The Voice Inside is an atmospheric exploration adventure game with horror and puzzle elements as well as challenging control mechanics. Use the voice control, or an unconventional controller and keyboard input to give the right commands to move a creature freely through a dark & abstract world.
Try To Escape The Darkness!
Keep an Eye on it!
- 2023 (paused)
- Topic of Application: Eye/to eye
- Feature Design, Level Design, 2D & 3D Art etc.
While the chef is busy, you as employees should keep an eye on everything. Make sure that the correct to-go orders reach the right customers, without letting the dishes on the conveyor belts fall into chaos. Can you manage this under these working conditions? Well, we’ll see.
Player 1: Playing with W,A,S,D or controller (analog sticks); Player 2: Playing with →,←,↑,↓ or controller (analog sticks)
Jobs/Experience
HWR Berlin (Student Jobs)
Klick:Forensik
- 2020
- UI Design, 2D-Art
Klick:Forensik is a serious game on the theme „Fewer Candles on the Graves!“ – Design of a blended learning concept for identifying unnatural causes of death. In this point-and-click game, you must find all the crucial evidences and coose, whether it is a natural cause of death or not by answering questions.
FoFaBe
- 2021-22
- Concept, UI Design, 2D & 3D Art
FoFaBe is a serious game, in which the player investigates an accident site for clues. After gathering evidence, they undergo various forensic analysis processes, leading up to a presentation in court. The game features a simple low-poly style, creating the impression of an architectural model aesthetic.
GAME JAMS & GAMES ACADEMY
Group Projects (2024 – 2025)
Gears of Mitra
- Nov 2024 – Feb 2025 (GA First Semester Project)
- Level Desig, UI & UX Design, Feature Design, (2D Art); Concepts & Documentation (High Concept etc.);
- Co-Lead, Lead Game Designer, Vision Keeper
Gears of Mitra is a linear 3D parkour game, which invites the player to manipulate the time and therefore his environment by his own movement speed to overcome deadly traps and obstacles.
The humanoid character, as a time manipulator, has the ability, to slow down the time by his own movement speed. Fast paced movements, such as run and dash, let him manipulate the time in relation to his movements. The character can use it to survive several deadly traps. He needs to plan each movement carefully and choose between walk, run, slide, dash, (double) jump and more.
Note: All 3D art assets and textures are made by the group´s artists, (the title logo and UI art was designed by me)
Chess Redesign
- October-November 2024
- Feature Design, 2D & 3D Art
This is a chess redesign, which I developed with a group of four students. The goal was to redesign classic chess into a simplified child-friendly version with new mechanics.
Portal Project
- October 2024
- Mechanic, Level Design, UI Design
To learn how to use Git and Fork, we, as a small group of GA students, built a small test project, with a super simple port mechanic. The outcome is a short portal dasher game.
Parah & Syte (Spoopy Jam)
- 08. – 10. of November 2024
- Level Design, Digital Controller Mechanic (Coop Feature), UI Design (Morphagene System)…
„Parah & Syte“ is a 2D side-scrolling couch co-op game for 1-2 players with a twisted blend of horror and humor. You play as Parah and Syte, two mischievous parasites, who have taken control of an unsuspecting cat in a high-security parasitology lab. The goal? Guide your new feline host to freedom and escape the lab.
To escape, you’ll use your parasitic powers to trigger mutations, shifting the cat’s form to adapt to every new hurdle.
This game was developed by the PyJAMer Party, a group of students of the Games Academy, as a submission for the 2.5 days spoopy game jam 2024!
Crab Island
- 19. of June 2024
- Level Design
Crab Island is my first 2D micro platformer that I have created during a three-day game design trial course run by Games Academy Berlin. I was supposed to learn how to use the Unity Engine without any coding (by redesigning a demo platformer and using a tile palette) with the focus on level design.
Note: I used third party art assets.
Sandra Niziolek
Senftenberger Ring 48e
13435 Berlin
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