Ekin Bortecin

Ekin Bortecin

Creative & Publishing Director in Istanbul

About

Digital gaming enthusiast. I specialize in mobile and PC gaming marketing art direction and mobile game publishing.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Istanbul

Leading Publishing Manager team to publish mobile titles from hybrid casual to casual.

2021 — Now
Istanbul

Leading a creative team to help Joygame's inhouse creative needs ranging from PC game social media visuals to mobile action RPG game UA video ad creatives.

2023 — 2024
İzmir | Remote

Co-led a hybrid casual gaming studio of 5 people.

2019 — 2021
Senior Art Director at Netmarble EMEA
Istanbul

Netmarble's EMEA branch has shifted from casual and hardcore mobile games to hypercasual games. As a company, we have launched over 100 games during this period. I gave UI/UX feedback, created video ads for published games, and led the in-house creative team.

2017 — 2019
Art Director at Netmarble EMEA
Istanbul

Led art team to create social media, UA campaign visuals and videos of two giant IP-based mobile games: Lineage2Revolution and Marvel Future Fight for Turkey and MENA mobile market, and Turkey's biggest PC MMOFPS game Wolfteam.

2016 — 2017
Jr. Art Director at Netmarble EMEA
Istanbul

Launched one of the most successful mobile game titles in Turkey and MENA. Leading art team and working on creating TV ads, UA campaigns (both visual and motion), in-game event visuals, and character/item localizations.

2015 — 2016
Graphic Designer at Netmarble EMEA
Istanbul

Led both in-house art team and digital outsource ad agency for all mobile games which were published by Netmarble EMEA

2013 — 2015
Jr. Graphic Designer at Netmarble EMEA
Istanbul

Worked on marketing and social media materials for PC MMODance (Mstar) and PC MMO Action RPG (Rakion)

Projects

2024

Creative direction and creation of Boğaziçi Venture AI Summit. I created all the designs used at the Summit, including screen designs, lower thirds, the summit logo, and printed panels.

Side Projects

2022

A mobile game for practice using Unity game engine for coding, 3D design & animation.

Awards

2018

Gold winner for Lineage 2: Revolution launch campaign in Cross Mobile Integration category

2018
Turkey – Cross Media from Smarties

Silver winner for Lineage 2: Revolution launch campaign in Cross Media category

2018
Turkey – Product / Services Launch from Smarties

Bronze winner for or Lineage 2: Revolution launch campaign in Product Launch category

Volunteering

2012 — 2012
Assistant at BUG Game Lab
Istanbul

Bahçeşehir University's summer workshop for gaming. It took 1.5 months to complete. I participated in the workshop and worked as an assistant.

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