Maksym Rudek — Game Producer

Maksym RudekGame Producer & studio co-founder

I build teams that run themselves, and the production process that lets them ship: a Nintendo Switch title certified twice, a premium mobile game, and a ~20-prototype pipeline with a global publisher.

Warsaw, Poland · CET · five years leading a fully-remote studio

The path

What studios need → delivered

Read it top to bottom like a production log. Every node is tagged PEOPLE and/or PROCESS, and lists the producer capabilities it proves.

Indeep Studios · co-founder & CEO · 2019–2023PEOPLEPROCESS
Built a studio from zero
No funding, no safety net — a studio scaled to twelve people, with its production, recruitment and operations processes designed from scratch.
I co-founded the studio with zero external funding and ran it as CEO and producer for five years: planning, scoping, scheduling and the roadmap were mine, with no one else to hand any of it to.
I built the production pipeline from scratch — milestone planning, sprint structure in Jira, task flows across design, art, dev and QA — and negotiated the publishing deals, budgets and staffing plans that kept it funded. A typical project ran €80–100k over 6–12 months.
The team scaled between 3 and 12 people depending on the project — ten recruited in total, on a mix of full-time and part-time contracts, coordinated fully remote. A distributed team that size only works if it's genuinely self-organizing, so growth was individual: coaching people through the phase they were actually in, not where an org chart said they should be.
- 12peak team
- 10people recruited
- €80–100kavg project
- 6–12 modelivery
Proves
- Self-organizing teams
- Hiring & coaching
- Planning & roadmaps
- Budgets & staffing
Premium mobile · vision to releasePEOPLE
Sole Light
A premium mobile title carried on a single, clearly held vision from first concept to a paid release — featured on the Polish App Store.
Sole Light was a paid premium game I owned end-to-end. There was no committee to align — the vision and the goal for what the game needed to be were mine to set and mine to keep transparent for anyone who touched it.
Premium means players pay before they feel anything, so ambiguity about what the game was for was never an option. 5,000+ paid downloads say the vision held.
- 5,000+paid downloads
- featuredPolish App Store
Sole Light — gameplay
Proves
- Clear vision & goals
Nintendo Switch · published by QubicGamesPROCESS
Pocket Pool + DLC
Built for Nintendo Switch and expanded with DLC — both shipped through first-party certification, on deadline and on budget.
Pocket Pool shipped on Nintendo Switch with QubicGames and reached tens of thousands of downloads, then I expanded it with a DLC release — a deliberate second delivery, not a live service.
Both the base game and the DLC had to clear Nintendo's certification bar: performance, compliance, stability, submission — pass or resubmit. We met every deadline and budget constraint and resolved every certification issue with no prior Switch experience on the team. I negotiated the terms and ran all communication with the publisher and Nintendo.
- 2Switch certifications
- tens of thousandsdownloads
Pocket Pool + DLC — gameplay
Proves
- Platform certification
Publisher-side · production cadencePEOPLEPROCESSFlagship
Kwalee — the prototype pipeline
10 months, ~20 prototypes, a two-week cadence — incremental delivery, cross-functional Agile, and a real publisher relationship.
For ten months I ran a prototype pipeline in collaboration with Kwalee: roughly twenty mobile prototypes, one every two weeks, with a five-person team. Every cycle had a build, a test, and a kill-or-carry decision — bottlenecks got found and cleared fast, because a two-week cadence leaves no room to let one sit.
The team was small and cross-functional by necessity, and it only worked because people felt safe proposing a weird idea two days before the deadline. Leading that from the front meant being in the build with them, not just reviewing it.
I was also the outward-facing producer on the developer-partner side of a global publisher — the meetings, the reporting, both sides' expectations and KPIs, and a relationship that had to survive a kill decision without turning adversarial.
- ~20prototypes
- 2 wkscadence
- 5team
- 10 moduration
Prototype reel
Proves
- Leading from the front
- Publisher & partner relations
- Incremental delivery
- Cross-functional Agile
PC · engine & pipeline depthPROCESS
Blitzdeck
Systems-design depth close to the engine and pipeline — understanding the technical limitations well enough to plan around them.
Blitzdeck is a PC rogue-lite deckbuilder where the interest lives in systems: synergies, pacing, run variance, and the engine-level tuning that makes a turn feel right.
Getting that right meant working close enough to the engine and pipeline to know what was actually possible before scoping it — the same fluency a producer needs to plan around technical limitations instead of discovering them mid-sprint.
- rogue-litesystems design
Blitzdeck — gameplay
Proves
- Engine & pipeline fluency
Outside games · 2016–2018, 2023–2026PROCESS
Strategy & data, outside games
IT consulting and fintech — an outside perspective, imported to question how things are usually done.
Before, alongside and after the studio I worked in IT consulting and fintech: strategy, and data-driven decisions where the numbers had consequences. It's where the habit comes from — bring a perspective from outside the room, and use it to push back on “that's how it's always been done”.
- $100k+projects
- fintech+ consulting
Proves
- Data-driven decisions