{"id":4642,"date":"2025-11-20T14:50:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/?p=4642"},"modified":"2025-12-06T01:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:36:07","slug":"week-8-megan-matthews-game-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/2025\/11\/20\/week-8-megan-matthews-game-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8 – Megan Matthews (Game Designer)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Megan Matthews is a Game Designer who specialises in level design and accessibility. She makes non-violent games with cosy and relaxing themes. She graduated from the course in 2021 and currrently works at Ustwo Games, helping to make Monument Valley 3<\/strong> and Desta: the memories between<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From her website description: ‘I particularly enjoy designing games with unique mechanics or levels that push the boundaries of play and allow the player to experience something new.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Megan’s answer<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. A lot less stressful. However, first studio was only 9 people and 3 people had to do the pitching.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Second studio was more relaxed, only 3 people as it was a kickstarter<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Smaller company, more stress you feel as you have less people + more demands<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Adam: AAA + indie is not more or less stressful<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. 100 bugs in a smaller studio = more stress<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Last Week<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
    Next Week<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Megan Matthews is a Game Designer who specialises in level design and accessibility. She makes non-violent games with cosy and relaxing themes. She graduated from the course in 2021 and currrently works at Ustwo Games, helping to make Monument Valley 3 and Desta: the memories between. From her website description: ‘I particularly enjoy designing games with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-contexts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4642"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5100,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions\/5100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}