Category: Professional Contexts

This weeks talk is from Bea, who works as a senior publishing designer at Kwalee. Game RolesBea mentioned some of roles that comprise the games industry, including programming, design, artists and tools. I am mainly interested in being a programmer in the industry and I am focusing my learning on this by learning Java in…

This week was the final week of talks, and this week was from Jade who has worked at Hogwarts Legacy, UNO and Lego Horizons Adventure. She talked about the role of a Producer and what they do for a game project, she talked about things to learn in the context of professional game development. Firstly,…

This weeks talk was from Liv Gregory, who works as a concept artist. Getting into the industry Liv mentioned that it can take some time to break into the industry and that before she broke in, she worked some other jobs, like a barista job at Cafe Nero. She also worked on some other “odd…

This week’s talk was by Jamie Blacknell. He graduated from the Games Design and Art course in 2021. He made a game called Portage: A Mindful Journey for his final project which contains similar environmental themes to what I am currently working on. It’s a single player exploration game where you wander around a forest…

This weeks talk was from the university’s careers consultanty Laia Auge Poch. Laigh talked about the 4 stages of career planning, deciding, planning, competing and sorted. In her talk she emphasied the university’s career service, particularly the Pathways section, which has a selection to choose from. She specifically talked about the Successful Futures pathway today,…

Today was the start of the Professional Context module. The speaker today introducing the module was Adam Proctor. Adam introduced the module by talking about professional practices in the industry, like CVs, Cover Letters and your portfolio. He talked about being a member of UKIE, and other organisations in the games industry like IntoGames and…