Harshal Karvande

Product Manager

Mäntsälä, Uusimaa, Finland13 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Free-to-Play game design since 2012.
Led successful projects at Rovio and Zynga.
Passionate about game mechanics and user experience.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Game Design expert with extensive experience in Free-to-Play mobile gaming.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Game DesignUser Experience DesignGame AnalysisWritingTeam LeadershipLive Ops Design

Other Skills

User ResearchContent CreationInteraction DesignConcept DesignExperience DesignConcept DevelopmentUser-centered DesignInformation DesignDesign StrategyDesign ThinkingInformation ArchitectureUsability TestingService DesignWireframesPaper Prototyping

About

Free-to-Play Game/Product Design since Jan 2012. In order of latest release on the App Store/Google Play Store: > Bloom City Match (Match 3, Puzzle) / Rovio > Small Town Murders (Match 3, Puzzle) / Rovio > FarmVille 2 (Farming, Simulation) / Zynga > Ironkill (Fighting, Action) / Play Motion > Real Steel (Fighting, Action) / Reliance Games Besides my love for games, I am a passionate animal lover. My partner and I are dads of dogs, cats, ducks, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, birds and more.

Experience

Rovio entertainment

2 roles

Principal Game/Product Design at Rovio

Promoted

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo

All things F2P game/product design at the Rovio Puzzle Studio!
Games: Bloom City Match, Small Town Murders.

Game DesignUser Experience DesignUser Research

Game/Product Design Lead at Rovio

Oct 2019 – Feb 2025 · 5 yrs 4 mos

All things F2P game/product design on our best new match 3 puzzle game, Bloom City Match!
Previously released Small Town Murders with the same team at our puzzle game studio.

Game DesignUser Experience DesignUser Research

Naavik

Writer/Deconstructor at Naavik

May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

Deconstructing key mobile F2P games with comprehensive insights monthly.
Past essays include: Zen Match, Marvel Snap, Everdale, Puzzles & Survival etc.

WritingGame Analysis

Game design post

Editor/Writer

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs

I write short reads on the design philosophy guiding successful games.

WritingGame Design

Zynga

3 roles

Lead Game Designer

Apr 2019 – Jul 2019 · 3 mos

Game Design Lead on FarmVille 2.

Game DesignTeam Leadership

Senior Game Designer

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Mar 2019 · 11 mos

Leading the live ops design team for FarmVille 2.

Game DesignLive Ops Design

Game Designer

Aug 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Creating new and engaging cadence content for FarmVille 2.

Game DesignContent Creation

Play motion

Game Designer

Feb 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Lead game designer on the studio's flagship title: IronKill.

Game Design

Reliance games

2 roles

Game Designer

Aug 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

Lead game designer for the studio’s first f2p title: Real Steel WRB. Over 100 million downloads worldwide.

Game Design

Game Design Intern

Jan 2012 – Jun 2012 · 5 mos · Pune Area, India

Worked on several original feature phone games for popular kids TV shows like Doraemon, Ninja Hattori, projects for Kumbh Karan, Chhota Bheem and several other in-house titles like Agent Smith: World Assault.

Game Design