{"id":292,"date":"2022-02-28T18:37:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T18:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevenraven.nuacomputerscience.co.uk\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2022-05-18T17:17:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T16:17:44","slug":"industry-awareness-development-diary-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenraven.nuacomputerscience.co.uk\/blog\/2022\/02\/28\/industry-awareness-development-diary-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Awareness Development Diary Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Welcome to week 1 on an entirely new project called Industry Awareness. During the next two weeks with the project, I will be looking into a research career in the games industry and creating a career plan around what I will do before leaving NUA and then delivering a group presentation about an entry-level job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first was assembling a group and creating a career plan to head after NUA to start with this project. However, before discussing and collaborating ideas across to the group, I needed to research different company studios in the industry based in the UK. I decided to explore Creative Assembly, Jagex and Sumo Digital. The reason for this is that I enjoy playing strategy games, and while I have not played any Total War games, it has wanted me to look further into Creative Assembly. With Jagex, I looked at the company due to my enjoyment of playing MMO and understanding Runescape. Finally, with Sumo Digital, I know of someone who is currently undertaking an apprenticeship, which would help give me more information about Sumo Digital, which would be helpful to share with the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After researching the chosen companies, my finding was that working for Jagex while filing the role as a gameplay programmer would be my career after leaving NUA because of the location and my knowledge of MMO and understanding of RPG games mechanics. However, if I am to take my career plan into action, I would need to start developing my skills around making some RPG projects to understand creating specific mechanics used in RPGs. These mechanics could be a levelling system, battles and story progression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By collecting as much information as I could from researching the different game companies in the UK, I could bring this all forward to the group and use the information I had gathered for Sumo Digital and Jagex. I also looked into the QA game tester role as another option for the presentation because the position is the easiest to get a foot into the industry due to the low requirement. Also, I have a passion for testing out new games by trying them out and being critical of how the game is designed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are screenshots of some of the slides I had worked on for the group presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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