Sabri Mohamadi
Producer · Game Designer · Tokyo
aka Hikali
Two years in the worldwide main team of Little Nightmares at Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe, as Global Associate Producer. Three games shipped, on console, VR and mobile. Today I work freelance as a producer and game designer, I teach production at Master level, and I still code my own prototypes.
Global Associate Producer at Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe, 2023 to 2025
Developer · Supermassive Games
The saga's big return. I followed production with Supermassive Games day to day, signed off deliverables milestone by milestone, and kept QA, analytics, localisation, marketing and communication in sync with development.
Developer · Iconik
The franchise steps into VR. I followed development so that scope, quality and the Little Nightmares identity held up next to the main game.
Developer · Playdigious
The cult original on iOS and Android. I followed the port up to launch, build after build, so the experience reached mobile intact.
I worked with Supermassive Games, Iconik and Engine Software, along with our playtest and service vendors. Across all titles, the Little Nightmares series has passed 20 million copies sold (Bandai Namco, June 2025).
Little Nightmares™ & © Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe S.A.S. Images used for portfolio purposes.
I hold schedules, see risks coming, make the call on scope and keep external studios moving. At Bandai Namco I rebuilt our entire project tracking on Jira, Confluence and SharePoint, and automated a report that used to cost a full day every week.
I prototype fast and work on mechanics and on how the game feels, second by second. Accessibility is part of how I design. On Little Nightmares I turned an accessibility audit into a prioritised backlog, and the team shipped it.
I come from code. I read specs in detail, push back on estimates and speak the same language as engineers. I also automate business processes with Microsoft 365, Power Automate and SharePoint.
I teach production, project management and game design at Master level at Ynov Campus, and I help studios organise their production and make their games more accessible.
Freelance Producer & Game Designer · HikalithLyon, then Tokyo
When a production needs reinforcement, studios call me in. I take over coordination and reporting, set up their tracking tools (Jira, SharePoint, Teams) and structure the way the team works. On the design side I work on prototypes, mechanics and player experience, with accessibility as a common thread.
I'm also producer and business developer for the Hiqub collective. And I train the next generation of producers and game designers at Master level for Ynov Campus Lyon and Ynov Connect, where I also consult.
Lyon, France · Little Nightmares franchise
Two years at the heart of the main team that drove the franchise's worldwide strategy. I ran three projects side by side, Little Nightmares III, Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes and the mobile port of the original, alongside Supermassive Games, Iconik and Engine Software.
My job was to keep everything on course. Milestones, deliveries, QA, analytics, localisation, marketing and communication had to move together, with clear reporting to stakeholders and IP holders. I rebuilt our tracking on Jira, Confluence and SharePoint, cut a full day of manual reporting every week through automation, and kept the scope consistent across the main game, VR and mobile.
Lyon · 6 months
Six game projects, around forty people, one schedule to hold. I coached their project leads, and two years later some of them became my first clients.
Soucieu-en-Jarrest · work-study
I automated business processes for our clients with Microsoft 365, Power Automate, SharePoint and Teams, then trained their teams until they could run it on their own.
Saint-Étienne · work-study
Interfaces and internal tools for the company's software, plus R&D on its processes. My first real steps as a developer.
What I make outside of publisher work. Personal projects first, then game jams and school.
Game Designer & Producer
A horror game I designed and produced. I took it to pitch competitions, and on Maghla's show it won funding support. The project is currently on hold.
Technical Game Designer
An escape game in Unreal Engine. I designed the puzzles and built the gameplay in Blueprints.
A local party game for 1 to 4 players. The supermarket closes in two minutes and you have to grab everything before the others do. I was the technical game designer.
itch.io ↗
A management game. A spaceship on its last legs, a crew of Mochis to direct, and food, water and oxygen to keep under control until arrival.
itch.io ↗A short roguelike made as a school project.
itch.io ↗Games and Japan don't stop when my workday does. As Hikali, I share both in videos and live streams.
On my YouTube channel I am Hika I show Japan from the inside and the places every player dreams of visiting. I write, film and edit everything myself, and I stream on Twitch.
In the works, a series of interviews with game developers in Japan, starting with independent studios.
For two years I was the bridge between a publisher and studios across Europe. Now I want to do that job in Tokyo, with Japanese teams.
I live in Tokyo and I can start right away. A permanent role would need visa sponsorship. I understand the vast majority of spoken Japanese and I'm at ease in everyday conversation. Reading and writing are catching up, with classes.
Associate Producer · Producer · Game Designer
