{"id":932,"date":"2025-10-30T20:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ob6g23\/?p=932"},"modified":"2025-12-02T20:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:45:30","slug":"bea-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ob6g23\/2025\/10\/30\/bea-grove\/","title":{"rendered":"Bea Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Senior Games Designer at Kawlee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>there is a jump from university to job, expect critique<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>why are you doing things, justify<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>talking and presentations become easier<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>build up trust and rapport<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>advertising<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>community managers (discord, steam, reddit)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>indies can be harder to get into<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>browser games are coming back<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>boardgames<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>transferable skills, start in one thing and move into another<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>QA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>roles can crossover<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>non-games jobs skills are also useful and transferable<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>important to have teamwork experience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>good to know basic code, get into engine etc<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>have a portfolio ready<br>PORTFOLIO<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>put university work in work portfolio<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>self-lead projects<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>design unmade games<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>games jams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CV, be honest, be relevant, don&#8217;t care about GCSEs, A-Levels are fine but they mostly care about a degree<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>excel can be important in design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>don&#8217;t make it too long<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>bullet points<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>don&#8217;t put photo on it<br>INTERVIEW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>show passion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>see past the layers, roles specific info, why, add why<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>why did something go wrong, how did you deal with it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a games company doesn&#8217;t tend to be super professional, semi-professional clothes etc<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>research the company &#8211; recent games, play one, what kind of games, have some questions about the company (culture, learning opportunities)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>fake it until you make it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>economy designer, balancing fictional currency and microtransactions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>spreadsheets to balance and simulate the economy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>free-to-play with in-app purchases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>subscriptions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>publishing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>teaching\/training in new graduate job roles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LinkedIn learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>stand out with your portfolio (what you did and why)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>could ask in interview about diversity etc<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FMP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>most interviews will give a pre-interview test, self-timed<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>stand-ups 2-3 times a week<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slack<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AB testing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>you can learn an engine, unless you are a programmer, an interviewer won&#8217;t care what engine you used in a portfolio<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>what can realistically be done in the time you have<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>things always take longer than you think<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>do something you are excited about<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>mobile games is a massive industry with a lot of variety<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-contexts","category-semester-1-year-3","category-year-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ob6g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ob6g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ob6g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ob6g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ob6g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ob6g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ob6g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ob6g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ob6g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ob6g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}