Andy Wood of Double Fine Productions QA Session

Fantastic QA Session for Uclan Games Design course !

Andy Wood from Double Fine Productions
hooked up with Uclan Games Design on Skype for a QA session.
Luckily for us, Josh Taylor, our MA Games Design Course Leader
and Jim Thompson, our Associate Head of School, both studied with 'Woody'
(as they call him) during their years at Uni.

Andy Wood is an Artist, Art director and Game Designer.
He was Art director on 'The Cave' working under Ron Gilbert (Monkey Island)
Also worked with:
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
Crystal Dynamics -- Tomb Raider; Legend
Capcom -- Maximo; Ghost to Glory & Maximo vs Army of Zin

As you can imagine.....We got our questions ready! :)

You can see the video of the QA session here.

A BIG 'Thank You' to Andy for getting up at the crack of dawn (Pacific time)
just so we could ask him loads of questions!

Lee Burns QA Game Testing Presentation

Lee_Burns_Quality Assurance Testing 

Game Testing Presentation - Lee Burns
Uclan Games Design students in a question and answer Session with
Lee Burns who shares his experience of 'Quality Assurance Testing'
within the games industry.
This session was very helpful to those who would like to enter
the games industry as a game tester.

It was filmed in two parts.
See video links below.

Part 1

Part 2

Nik Hughes. Realtime Job Update

BIG congratulations are in order for Nik Hughes, Uclan Games Design Graduate. 

Nik has been mega busy, building up his portfolio and it's paid off !

He's managed to land a job at Soluis, a leading architectural visualiser studio.

They've placed him with their 'realtime' staff to make interactive renders :D. 

See their website here.

Solius are located in Scotland, Glasgow, so Nik has moved to Scotland.
He has updated his website too:

Portfolio LINK 

Well done Nik. 

We all wish you the very best in your new job from Uclan Games Design.

About Nik

He was awarded a Degree in Games Design with a Second Upper Class 

( 2.1 ) from the University of Central Lancashire in BA (Hons) Games Design.
He has been seeking a position in modelling, where he can utilize 

his ability to model high quality assets and environments

See his LinkedIn profile:

LINK

  

WhitePaper Games QA session with Uclan games course

Uclan Games Design course on Skype in QA session with
White Paper Games.

See YouTube to watch the movie. 

Thanks to Nathaniel-Jorden Apostol, Sound Designer and Composer for WPG
for leading the session along with OJ Farrell, James Burton, Ben Hill.
Special thanks to tutor, Pete Bottomley, Game Designer / Co-founder at WPG,
for getting this QA session off the ground. The first of many :)

See: http://www.whitepapergames.com/site/

  

Lego Game Design Live brief with Arthur Parsons

BA Games Design students at Uclan began a new live brief this week designing Lego game characters and level concepts with Games Design Director, Arthur Parsons from award winning company, Travellers Tales Ltd
It's always a brilliantly interesting day for the students when Arthur visits the course and this was no exception. He began the day with a lecture about experience in the industry and some general guidelines about working as a games designer and went on to chat with the students, look at their work and answer questions.
The students began work on a Lego design brief which they will present to Arthur in the coming weeks.

MA Games Design Show at Uclan 2013

MA Games Design students demonstrated a variety
of skills in their Show which opened at Uclan on Friday 11th Jan 2013
and is running for a week.

Families flocked round the students to learn more about their ideas
and the games they have made.
Follow the links below for more information about each student's work.


Steph Brookes

Sam Slater Blog
Sam Slater Website

Dave Towers

Steven Natrass

Oliver Farrell 
at
(WhitePaperGames)

UCLAN Games Design Student Emma Smith

Businessboombolton are showcasing the work of University of Central Lancashire student Emma Smith. 
The 20 year-old creative is currently studying Games Design, specialising in 3D environmental design.
See the full article and examples of Emma's work at the link below

See more from Emma Smith on her website at 
ladyknowles.co.uk, 
Behance 
and follow on  LinkedIn.