GradX Game Design

Kieron Duffy

Hi, I’m Kieron – I am 23 years old, and I am in 4th year of Game Design at TUD. I like Acting, Singing, Theatre, Film, TV & Animation, Music, Escape Rooms, Tabletop-Roleplaying-Games, Board Games, and Video Games. I enjoy designing game rules, mechanics & systems, and I love creating puzzles, mysteries & stories. I am the Game Designer and QA Co-Ordinator for Cardestia, and I was responsible for its conceptualization – I came up with the gameplay, its rules, systems and structure and balanced the cards stats, and then through testing refined how its mechanics would function. Notable games I have made during college include Pitch It!, a multiplayer elevator pitching party game that was showcased at GamerFest, and Confront – a small scale RPG with a word-based battle system I designed, that won runner up for best student game of 2025 at the Imirt Game Awards. My plan after college is to work on my game design portfolio both with the friends I have found in college and by myself to hone this craft. My dream is to create a piece of art that reaches somebody I otherwise would never have known, and to have that art be loved by them.

itch https://nickk02.itch.io/confront