Seppo Helava

Making games that will help people in novel ways.

At Wonderspark, our goal was to build a new kind of game - something that didn't compete directly with the existing giants, but would address a very specific audience - busy people who love ...

I had the privilege of helping the team at Huuuge in the early days of Huuuge Casino. They wanted perspective on putting the "social" in social casino, and I did my best to help them avoid s...

I helped develop a series of "content aggregation sites" in the days before Reddit & Digg, where users could pull content from various sources and publish them into a main feed. The goal of ...

I was originally brought on to lead the design of the anticipated expansions for Lair - a project that was cancelled a week after I was hired. Because the team was in crisis mode working to ...

Designed a flexible system to create reusable "generic" dialog that would adapt based on the speaker's personality traits. Wrote dialog and scripted logic for three characters from scratch, ...

Sims 2 (Console): Designed and implemented a brand-new combinatorial food system, designed a revision of the Sims' social interaction system, and helped craft the overall feel of the game.

Designed and created a Silicon Carbide crystal growth reactor, on an extraordinarily limited budget. Also designed other novel mechanical systems, such as a simple, cheap crystal orientation...

Seaman: Programmed game logic using a proprietary tool, implemented main character's facial animation, maintained multiple-thousand file audio system, provided regular builds of the game, an...