{"id":2361,"date":"2025-11-06T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2025-12-14T22:58:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:58:37","slug":"bea-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/2025\/11\/06\/bea-grove\/","title":{"rendered":"Bea Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Senior Designer at Kwalee<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Worked up from Junior Games Designer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manages graduate scheme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Uni Skills:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Learning how each role worked in a game dev team helped her collaborate<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Writing GDD\u2019s and pitching games prepared her for the real world of writing a lot of documentation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teamwork<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Programmers, Designers and Artist all need to know the basics of code and engines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Portfolio advice:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Show off projects from university, clarify your roles and highlight parts you really took ownership of<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Include self-led projects, designs for unmade games, and game jams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CV advice:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Don\u2019t lie!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>List highest education levels<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>List other jobs no matter how small<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>List experience in industry tools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Write cover letter unique to each job offer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Links to portfolio or any released games<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep it one-to-two pages<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use bullet points<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep it readable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Interview advice:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Show passion for games<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give role specific led praise and criticism in games<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have examples of team\/project work that went wrong and how you managed to overcome them<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be yourself<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research the Company:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Be able to answer some basic questions about the company:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Always have 1-2 questions about the company\/role ready<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sound enthusiastic even if it\u2019s not your dream role<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About: Uni Skills: Portfolio advice: CV advice: Interview advice:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2743,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/2743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/rf2g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}