Project library

Work, with the boundaries intact.

Professional production, spatial design, and playable systems. Each entry separates my contribution from team work and keeps NDA or ownership limits visible.

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Level Design · Commercial

Confidential King Match-3 Catalogue Title

GlobalStep · September 2021–Present

Designed and balanced approximately 260 released mobile levels, including work on a milestone episode and the 10,000th level.

NDA-safe summary. The game title and production media remain confidential.

Gameplay + World Design · Solo Prototype

Chaos Island

Godot · Windows · In development

A downloadable pixel-art survival prototype connecting exploration, ecosystem behaviors, gathering, farming, crafting, and combat inside an evolving island world.

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A pixel-art island clearing with animals, trees, a shelter, and a lit campfire. — Inhabited island prototype · Original Chaos Island capture

Level Design · Game Jam

You Only Die Once

GMTK Game Jam · 2022

Designed and assembled three strategic 3D levels around a die-driven action-point system, then rebuilt inaccessible and low-value routes after playtesting.

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A top-down strategic arena from You Only Die Once, with the die-shaped player positioned between two enemies. — Level 2 encounter · Level design and assembly by Saurabh Gajwe; 3D assets and programming credited in the case study

Gameplay Systems · Technical Prototype

The Chronarium

An experimental particle ecosystem exploring emergent behavior through species-specific interaction rules, lifecycle systems, bubble fields, and optional flow-linked visualization.

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The Chronarium simulation showing colored particles moving around two fields beside rule controls. — Drift preset · Approved simulation capture · Runtime loads only after launch

Gameplay + Visual Design · Commercial

Dishoom: The Official Game

Diastain Media Pvt. Ltd. · October 2017–January 2019

Created the UI and in-game background, then implemented a five-charge fuel and session-pacing system in Unity and C# for a shipped Android title.

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Dishoom interface studies showing the store, title artwork, vehicle customization, and a gadget screen. — Archived production presentation · UI by Saurabh Gajwe; vehicle assets credited to the project team's 3D artist

Level Design + 3D Art · Game Jam

Meltdown

Global Game Jam · 2017

Designed a complete single-room puzzle space and created original 3D elements for a black-hole-machine experience built around signal tuning.

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The red-lit Meltdown puzzle room with its sine-wave monitor and signal-tuning device. — Archived jam capture · Single-room level and original signal device by Saurabh Gajwe; additional Asset Store and team work credited in the project record

Supporting work

Puzzle + Level Design · Solo Prototype

Bismuth Valley Demo

2017 · Windows

Built a multi-storey puzzle-adventure demo in Unity and PlayMaker, from 3D assets and character rigging to a connected torch, password, pressure-plate, and door sequence.

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Bismuth Valley side-view prototype showing a character, platforms, torches, and color-based puzzle markers. — Solo Unity and PlayMaker prototype · Level, assets, rigging, and puzzle flow by Saurabh Gajwe

Gameplay + Visual Design · Game Jam

Cell Hell

Global Game Jam · 2018

Contributed the defensive arena and placement layout, UI, cell artwork, animation, worldbuilding, and visual decisions to a four-person Unity jam project.

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The red pixel-art Cell Hell title frame from the archived game-jam presentation. — Archived title frame · Arena, UI, cell artwork, and animation contributions by Saurabh Gajwe; team roles remain credited in the project record

Game Concept + Visual Assembly · Game Jam

In for a Surprise?

BYOG · 2022 · Windows

Originated the two-player spoof-dialogue concept, created and assembled collage-based character and level visuals, and contributed layout decisions in Unity.

Presented without third-party entertainment imagery.

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