Minjae KwonAsh

Assessed game investment, M&A and publishing proposals on product competitiveness, market potential, business model and deal terms, and wrote assessments for executive decisions

• Representative case: analyzed the market potential, product competitiveness and business model of a KRW 37B (~USD 27M) equity investment and global publishing deal (signed in 2024), forming the department’s official position, which fed into the investment committee’s discussion
• Searched for candidate studios in Korea and overseas; met with their executives, reviewed unreleased builds on site at Korean studios, assessed business terms and prepared executive reports
• Screened ~340 PC, console and mobile titles as investment, M&A and publishing candidates; wrote 30+ market and industry reports and co-authored executive reports and investment proposals
• Worked on a mobile RPG co-development initiative based on an overseas game IP, in a five-person team including the Vice President, covering the game concept, development direction and business model, CEO approval, selection of an outsourced developer, milestone reviews and an outsourcing structure tied to staged payments. Produced concept images and video drafts with SDXL LoRA for executive reports and partner presentations
• Collaborated with ArenaNet (North American subsidiary) on Guild Wars 3 co-development: concept validation, combat design proposals and prototype reviews at milestones (official announcement)

Supported publishing operations and cross-team coordination

• Designed the evaluation criteria, evidence display and output format so that repetitive analysis and first-pass screening are automated while the final call stays with a person
• Collects 949 games from public Steam data every two hours, benchmarks each against its genre peers, and classifies 700,000+ reviews with a local LLM
• Planned, shipped and run by me alone; shared with former executives and colleagues

• Eight cat residents and eight places; the same village carries over between a normal window and a transparent taskbar mode
• Codex builds and tests the Unity code and ChatGPT Images draws the art; I plan the game, approve the art and review each build

• 60 one-stroke path puzzles on 3x3 and 4x4 grids; a solver enumerated all 389,112 3x3 patterns to sort levels by difficulty
• Running a Google Play closed test with a public web version; entered in OpenAI Game Builders Seoul (Aug 2026)

• Detects missing Korean fonts, overlapping text and content running off the slide; the browser version never uploads your file

• Selected with a pre-launch game market assessment product that extends GDSS

• GPA 4.03/4.3
• Deep-tech Management Advisory Project (KAIST MBA course, Jul – Aug 2026): advised two startups (AI-based energy metering and analytics, flood detection); as sole project manager on the flood-detection engagement, verified the evidence behind each business claim and rebuilt the market sizing