AvailableFreelance & contractGame Designer · Project Manager · Educator
Lorenzo Lezzi
Let's create something engaging together!
Tools I work with · Daily drivers
Unreal Engine
Unity
Miro
Figma
GitHub
Jira
Confluence
HacknPlan
Milanote
ClickUp
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Illustrator
Google WorkspaceUnreal EngineUnityMiroFigmaGitHubJiraConfluenceHacknPlanMilanoteClickUpAdobe Premiere ProAdobe IllustratorGoogle WorkspaceSelected work
Shipped & playable.
Racing, bullet hell, survival horror, physics action, and a live learning platform. Titles across Steam, itch.io and web, credited across design, level design, QA and production.
Slackers: Carts of Glory
A chaotic physics racer from Falling Saints, barreling shopping carts through the suburbs. Brought on for QA and playtesting consultation across development, with a credit in the shipped release.
Axon Park
Game design for Fronterra, Axon Park's game-native platform of interactive 3D worlds where learning is the byproduct of play. Same immersive foundation behind the studio's enterprise training, plus QA and playtesting passes across builds. Work reaching Harvard, Columbia, the University of Michigan and Mount Sinai.
Ball Bulét
An isometric bullet hell built around a single mechanic: a ricocheting ball you bank off walls and enemies to climb a tower floor by floor. A tight, readable difficulty curve carries the whole game. Shipped on Steam with a team out of AIV.
Moonplague
A survival horror aboard a decaying lunar station, built on slow dread and scarce resources. Fully diegetic in-world UI and deliberate resource tension. Developed with the small indie studio Digitaly Arts, funded through 34BigThings and Microsoft's Quickload.
Angry Zilla
A physics-driven destruction sprint: flatten a city against a 45-second clock. Fast to read, fast to master, designed for the score chase. Built for Brackeys Game Jam.
What I do
Services.
A design-and-production practice built for studios, publishers and cross-disciplinary teams that need to turn complexity into clarity before they can ship.
Strategy
Turning ideas into structured plans, roadmaps and achievable milestones.
Documentation
Diagrams, specifications, conceptual maps and presentations that make complex projects easy to understand.
Production
Planning, prioritization and project monitoring from concept to delivery.
Leadership
Coordinating multidisciplinary teams, solving problems and keeping everyone aligned on the same vision.
Decision Making
Supporting informed decisions through analysis, visual organization and structured critical thinking.
Developed through practice
Case studies
Design thinking, on the record.
Pitches, documentation and workshop curricula. Each card opens to a quick overview plus the original PDF, source-first, no walls of text.
Full source documents are available on request. Additional studio deliverables, including GDDs, production plans and gamified training simulations, are covered by NDA.
How I work
From chaos to clarity.
Three moves that take a project from scattered ideas to a shippable build.
Project assessment
Understand the problem before touching the plan.
- Sessions with founders and leads on vision, ethos and scope
- Audit of the current build, docs and pipeline
- A short, honest read on the critical points
Vision · Audit · Risk map
Executing the vision
Make sure everyone is building the same game.
- Vision translated into GDDs, specs and flows
- One source of truth the whole team can follow
- Design intent kept intact as features evolve
GDD · Specs · Flows
Streamlining production
Ship on schedule without burning the team out.
- Realistic milestones and sprint structure
- Agile rituals sized to the studio, not the textbook
- Reviews that catch drift early, not at gold
Milestones · Sprints · Build
Studios & teams
Studios I've built with.
Standing collaborations, outsourced productions, and one-off contracts across games, immersive learning and interactive experiences.
The latest studio I collaborated with as game designer, producer, project manager and lecturer, across in-house and outsourced production for schools, teaching, B2B and B2C game development.
- MusicalmenteNDAProject Manager · Game Designer
Android / iOS 2D mini-game collection for children hospitalized in the oncology ward of Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome. In collaboration with the Engineering Faculty of Sapienza University.
- Ava DanteumProject Manager
Immersive platform for virtual listening dedicated to sonic arts inspired by Dante's Divina Commedia. Produced for MACRO, Museo di Roma with the American Academy in Rome and Promu · All For Music.
- ExploraProject Manager · Game Producer
Virtual space for interactive learning developed for schools.
- Codename Cyber SecurityNDAProject Manager · Game Designer
Interactive gamified simulation for cyber security and IT-specialist training, blending physical and virtual interaction. Developed for ItalDigit.
Delivered through Red Hog. Design and QA on Fronterra, the studio's interactive 3D universe for kids age 7–14, alongside enterprise learning work reaching top-tier US institutions.
- Fronterra PlatformGame Designer · QA
Interactive 3D learning universe for kids age 7–14.
The first video game I ever worked on, inside a small emerging indie studio, a handful of inexperienced people, no budget, one release that made it out.
- MoonplagueGame Designer · Level Designer
Backed by 34BigThings and Microsoft's Quickload initiative.
Experience
Contract & freelance.
Currently available for freelance and contract work, invoicing internationally.
Axon Park
Game Designer (via Red Hog)
Game design for Fronterra's interactive 3D learning worlds.
Red Hog Studio
Game Designer · Producer · Project Manager · Lecturer
Design, production and project management across in-house and outsourced titles.
Digitaly Arts
Game & Level Designer
Game and level design on Moonplague.
Teaching
Teaching & workshops.
Multi-year teaching across game design, AI and gamification, from primary and secondary schools to postgraduate masterclasses and teacher training, all registered with the national education platform.
Postgraduate masterclasses
- AIV, 3-year game-design course (20+ classes)
- ITS Rossellini, 2-year game-design course (3 classes)
Teacher professional formation
- ITES Fraccacreta, gamification
- ITC Carlo Levi, AI & Google tools
- Istituto Maffeo Pantaleoni, AI & Google tools
- ITIS Galileo Galilei, gamification
Schools & language
- IC Regina Elena, Minecraft Education (elementary)
- NEWAI history & culture, high-school course (institute TBA)
- NEWEnglish language teacher, GoStudent & private students
About
About Lorenzo.
My career started in game design, where I learned to think in systems. Since then I've applied that mindset across production, teaching, and consulting. The constant wasn't the industry; it was the process: turning complexity into clear decisions.
Beyond work
Language proficiency
Let's build.
Looking for a designer, producer or project manager for your next collab? Let's talk.