Week 13

This is the final week before the submission. I am focusing on my blog more, and try to finalise all the parts within the posts. We have had a few meetings already. The first one was on a few topics, like branding and story. With the story, we did not have a connection between the

Week 12

This week is presentation week. We are all going to be showcasing our ideas to everyone, including some music students. This is going to be very interesting! We did some practicing the day before and got it under 9 minutes. We also moved some slides around, putting the most important elements first. The next day,

Week 11

The winter holiday has finished, so now we are working more focused than before. We have planned to have a quick catch up every Monday – Friday so that we know what everyone is doing. It also helps to show the progress each of us is making. Presentation We had a talk with Adam and

Winter Holiday

During the holiday, we were told not to do too much work and relax, so I did that. I worked a little but as a team we have progressed a lot together. We had meetings every week, discusing and finalising different parts within the game. For example, we had a talk with James on mechanics

Week 10

This week has been very busy and very productive. Our team has been going into the studio nearly everyday to get work done. First day we got together we talked about the game in terms of mechanics, like what will the player do and the aim of the game. However, the main aim was to

Lucy Kyriakidou

This is the last professional context speaker. Lucy is a freelance game artist with a background of computer animation. She is a 2D artist. She said that getting studio experience is very important as it will help with better understanding on how to work and the general production process. There will be times in the

Matteo Menapace

He is a solo game designer who makes cooperative board games and does teaching. He mainly teaches how to design board games. This is going to be quite an interesting talk to listen to. He is a freelance and does work with other people when given the opportunity. Matteo wrote a blog on the Pandemic

Emily Brown

We had another talk from someone in Ustwo Games. She is the lead games designer. Emily has been in the industry for 15 years and worked on many different types of games, like Kinect. Right now, she is working on Alba, and the gameplay trailer looks fun. The first thing she talked about is localisation,

Lili Ibrahim

She is a lead artist at Ustwo studios. She leads a group of 6 other artists. She was a lockdown hire, so she works from home. Something I learnt is that there are a lot of different roles within a section of work, for example as an artist there are different types of artist, some

Joel Beardshaw

This speaker works at Ustwo games as a lead games designer. He has lots of experience from previous games studios he worked at. The aim at Ustwo studio is to create games for new people who have never played games before. They try to make it as accessible as possible, bringing it to as wide